Author: CelticDCH Athletic Club

Our busy indoor season continued today with some of our older girls in action. First off was Catherine Mc Manus in the 200m where she was a fine winner in another personal best time of 24.71. Next to go were our 1500m girls where Niamh Donnelly continued her fine form running 4.45 and Alison Armstrong also impressed with a new pb of 4.54 and to finish off a day of pbs Cliona Murphy ran 4.58! Others racing today  and who will benefit from the experience were Aislinn Moorehouse and Sinead Cronin in the 1500m and Aoife Ni Bhroin in the 800m. Well done to all.

Sat 22nd Feb Operation transformation Race in Phoenix Park starting at 10am. We are needed to help at the baggage area. Anyone who can, meet at Hole in the wall at 9 and we will walk over. We will train after in the Park. No Santry training this Sat

Sat 22nd Feb.Best of luck to Catherine, Niamh, Sinead, Aislinn, Cliona, Aoife and Alison in Athlone in the 2nd round of the indoor league.

Sun 23rd Feb Dublin Indoors in Santry. The following athletes are entered for Sundays competition.
high jumps be there at 12 noon Clare and Gillian Murphy, Katie Harrold, Aobh Collins.
high jump be there at 12.30 Faolan O Murachu, Finn Kilbride -Conlon
high jump be there at 1.30 Ben Quinn, Emily Murphy, Nora Redmond, Emily Corcoran
long jump be there at 2pm Conor Murphy, Killian Corcoran

Finallists for 600/800m be there at 12.15 for 1pm start- Caoimhe Bresnan, Dora, Ella-Mae and Katie.

Sun 23rd Feb Hole in the Wall 11am – usual training
Furthur updates for rest of the week later.

The operation transformation 5k will take place this Saturday at 10am in the Phoenix Park. We have been asked to look after the baggage area . We will need to meet at the Hole in the Wall at 9am and we should all be done by 11.

Well done to all the girls who competed in the Dublin Championships today!

Alison Burke added a brilliant silver medal to Friday’s gold when she finished a superb second in the U15 girls 60m sprint. Alison also finished a fine fourth in her first ever race over the hurdles.

Emily Corcoran did excellent to qualify for the final of the hurdles and finished fifth. Katie Harold won her heat of the 60m but came across much bigger girls in the semi final and didn’t progress to the final.

Chloe Corcoran and Sophie English both had unfortunate knee injuries. Chloe  could not compete and Sophie  got  to the final where she finished a brave  5th despite having a sore knee.  Well done to all.

Well done to Catherine McManus who got an excellent silver and big PB at the National Seniors today in a gusty run in the 60m hurdles after the disappointment of getting disqualified earlier in the 60m. Great running also by Niamh Donnelly with a massive PB of 4.41 and finishing 6th place! All the hard training paying off!

Day 2 of the Dublins were held in surprisingly nice conditions for most of the competitions today. We had some fine performances from our older athletes with Pierre, Alison and Cliona adding the 800m titles to their 1500m titles won last night. Finn Burke Power showed what a great 800m runner he can be with a fine win in a new pb in the under 16 boys race with Darragh Finn third. Aoife Corr came 3rd in the under 17 girls event, while Katie Hanna, Caoimhe Bresnan, Ella Mae Cromie and Dora have all qualified for finals next Sunday. Abbey Corr won the under 15 walk.
Best of the younger age groups were Oisin Gavin, Keelan Gogarty and Alex Corr.

Any of the younger athletes who wish to train tomorrow, go to the hole in the Wall at 11.