New Pb for Colm, Gary in the Prizes Again

Tonight, 27th June, at the St Coca's AC, Kilcock 5k, Colm O'Heigeartaigh ran an excellent new Pb of 18.25. Colm has now knocked 1 minute 17 seconds off his 5k Pb in the past 6 months, just reward for all the hard work he puts into his training. Gary Condon again proved himself to be one of the top O/40 athletes in the country at the moment by winning the O/40 section in 16.06. Gary has been in the prizes, overall or age category, in every race he has run this season.

Other Sli Cualann runners were, Terry Kavanagh, 19.36, 1st O/60, Carol Costello, 20.25, 3rd O/40 and Christine McCann, 30.03, 3rd O/55.

The race was won by Mark Christie, Mullingar Harriers in 14.06, Martin Fagan finishing second in 14.18. The ladies race was won by Charlotte Kearney, Donadea, in 17.32.

Training Notes.

Training continues throughout the summer at the usual times. Thursday training continues to be well attended, although numbers generally drop off during the holiday months. Last night we had 3 new athletes present, Marcus, John and Angela. We hope they enjoyed the evening and will return next week, when we arrange a short information meeting (10 minutes) for potential new members, immediately after training.

 We hope to revive our Saturday morning Long Run, starting this coming Saturday, 28th June. We will be starting in ASHFORD Village at 9am and running for 90 minutes, at just under 8 minutes per mile. Distance will gradually increase over the coming weeks. We will have an opt out option at 60 minutes. Our new faces from Thursday very welcome.    

Bray Runners Invitional Meeting

Some photos from last nights meeting, which was held in Greystones, our thanks to Tom Cavanagh for some brilliant photos which can be seen at   https://www.flickr.com/photos/125585504@N02/

Dunshaughlin 10k, Prizes and PB's for Bray Runners

The Dunshaughlin 10k was held tonight, Saturday 21st June. The course is a tough one and with the temperature in the low 20's, the 700 or so athletes were in for a hard nights work. The mens race was won by Martin Fagan,  Tullamore Harriers, in 30.03 and Barbara Cleary, Donore, took the ladies event in a very impressive 34.38.

 Helen Barry continued her amazing progress this season by smashing her PB by 1 minute 39 seconds, running 39.01 and taking 1st place in the O/40 category. Gary Condon also smashed his Pb by a very impressive 35 seconds, running 33.36 and taking 1st place in the O/40 section. Also in the prizemoney were Suzanne Foot, 39.50, just 5 seconds away from a PB, 3rd O/40 and Richard Kavanagh, 2nd O/60 in 40.39.

Joe Kelly also showing excellent form, ran a new Pb of 37.08, 10 seconds off his previous one, as did Des O'Hare, 39.04, 54 seconds off his previous best. Colm O'Heigeartaigh, running his first 10k ran a fine 39.25, and James Nangle, 39.21 continued his run of a new pb in every race he has run since joining Bray Runners earlier this year.

Siobhan Butler finished in 6th place in O/45 category, in a brilliant time of 46.13. Siobhan has been putting a lot of work into her training and it is obviously paying dividends, as this was an excellent Pb, 51 seconds off her previous best from the K Club earlier this year.

We also had some great running from Andrea Murphy, 48.20, Grainne Cunningham, 50.26, and Sandra Brady continued her comeback with a solid 53.19. Denise Cox, 70.24, added to her 1st place in Ferns last week by finishing 2nd O/60. 

Martin Francis, making a welcome return to racing, ran a fine 38.40, to finish 4th O/55.

The great Mick Byrne, Parnell AC, finished 2nd O/50 in 34.05. His time was faster than the previous 0/50 course record, which he set himself in 2011, but the category winner, Paul Cowhie, Civil Service, recorded a brilliant time of 33.24 to set the new mark.

Well done to all who competed, a great night was had by all.

                                         ASHFORD 5K.

Also on Saturday night we had the Ashford 5k, which was held over the County C/ship course. Joe Cawley finished in 2nd place in a very good time of 17.14, and Dominic Horan finished in 4th place also in a very good time of 17.32. Full results to follow.