Author: CelticDCH Athletic Club

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Day 2 of the AAI games took place in Santry today with two of our older athletes in action. Aislinn Moorehouse had a steady run in her 1500m. Catherine ran in the 400m and came 2nd in a great new personal best of 53.67 knocking .23 off her previous best in Belfast 2 weeks ago, In Tallaght this morning Bianca just missed out on a place in her 80m semi final, Oisin had a good run in his 1500m, the heat and humidity was tough for distance running today. In the afternoon Martha made the semi final of her 80m under 13 and Alice did really well to make the under 13 final. Over 60 athletes in the 60m!
In the high jump under 15 despite very little practice Meave O’ Leary jumped very well.
Well done to everyone.

We had six of our senior group competing in Santry today in the AAI games. First into action was Evan with a very good run in the 800m. Great to see Pierre back on the track with a very good opening race in the 3000, Sean also ran the 3000m finding the combination of the covid vaccine and leaving cert leaving him a bit under the weapon on this occasion.

Edel Monaghan ran a twenty second pb in the women’s 3000m and Lauren Tinkler also ran a 3k pb. Catherine ran her fastest opener 200m ever winning her race and equalling her pb which she ran in the summer of 2017!

In Geneva this morning Nadia ran a season’s best in her 800m race earning more points towards Olympic qualifying . Well done to everyone. Great to see racing back again! See athletics Ireland YouTube channel for more coverage tomorrow. Aislinn in the 1500 and Catherine in the 400 around 4pm.

AAI games are on in Santry today and tomorrow. Preview is on Athletics Ireland website. Good luck to Sean, Edel, Lauren and Pierre in the 3k which is on at 1.15 and Catherine is in 200m at 3.30. Tomorrow Aislinn runs in the 1500 and Catherine runs 400. Athletics Ireland YouTube channel is where all the action is.

Link here https://youtu.be/dTOA7XZQzwM

We finally made it back to competition for our younger athletes in Tallaght this evening. We had 4 athletes in the 1500m races. Goda was first off and she ran a fine race finishing 2nd overall in 5 mins 14 secs. Joe and Ciaran were representing the club for the first time in their 1500m and both ran really well and willLearn a lot from tonight. Shona was also running her first 1500m on the track and she found it very tough but worked hard all the way.
1500m was a tough one to start with so well done to every one.