Sat 17th Feb Dunboyne track meet at 9.30 athletes born 2010 and older plus sprints/hurdles group
Sun 18th Feb HITW at 11am everyone .
Tue 20th Feb NIA assemble at 7.15. 4 euro on night or Revolut.
Thur 22nd Feb Grangegorman at 7 everyone.
Best of luck to Niamh, Goda, Aimee and Cliodhna at the National seniors in NIA tomorrow. First races off at 12 noon and entry is free for under 16s so head up to support them after training .
Sat 10th Feb HITW 10am. Middle distance group 2009 and older plus sprints group ( state funeral in Dunboyne).
Sun 11th Feb HITW 11am everyone
Tue 13th Feb National indoor arena meet at 10.15.
Thur 15th Feb HITW 10.30am everyone.
No evening training this week.
Just a heads up for next week. Training on Tuesday will be in NIA assembly at 10.15 for 10.30 start. Thur morning willBe 10.30 at the HITW. No evening training during the week.
The Leinster schools cross country was held today on a very not cross country course in the Phoenix park. Luckily we got a very nice day for the event. We had 8 girls in action in the minor girls race from 3 schools with Maggie leading them in followed by Jessica, Pearl, Amelia, Saoirse, Caroline. Maisy, and Emma . 111 girls finished the race.
The St Dominic’s girls came 3rd team and qualified for national in March.
Megan and Ella ran well in the junior girls race.
Goda was our best placed athlete today with a very good run in 10th place in the inter girls race with brilliant back up
from Erin and Aoibhinn to win the Leinster school team race for St Dominic’s. Great running from the three girls.
Ava was on the silver medal team for Mt Sackville.
Cliona had a solid run in the senior race which she fitted in on a break from her leaving cert mocks!
Well done to all the girls today.
The Dublin indoor championships was a marathon affair at the weekend. We had a lot of athletes involved over both days over a lot of different events. The 400m races got us under way on Saturday morning with Aimee and and Niamh getting PBs in their heats and getting bronze and silver medals respectively in their finals later on in the day.
Goda was a very good 3rd in the 1500m under 17 and Lily ran in the under 18 1500m.
Aoibhinn, Amy, Isla, Ellie, Eoin and Hector raced well in their 60m races which had over 80 athletes in each age group.
Rion just missed out on a medal in the final of the under 13 60m finishing a close 4th, Aoife equalled her pb in the pole vault and finished 3rd in her age group.
Isla , Ellie and Ellen all did the long jump with huge numbers in their age groups.
Aoife and Juliette ran well in their 600m races under 13. In the 800m under 14 Lauren was the surprise of the day running a very good time, Amelia made the final of the 800 under 14, Freya wasn’t far off a final place , Robin did well on her first indoor 800.
Tom and Daire had solid runs in the boys under 15 800, Jessica , Pearl and Maggie made the final with Saoirse just missing out.
Megan was very close to a final spot in the 800 under 16 , Ella and Abigail also raced well under 16. Lily was a very good 3rd in the 800m under 18.
The 60m for the older age groups were on Sunday afternoon with Maggie getting to the semi finals, Alice just missed out, Martha had a great afternoon finishing a close 4th in the final with a huge Pb!
The medal of the afternoon was the bronze won by Max in the shot under 13 and not to be out done by Max , Rion got a bronze in the girls shot under 13. A lot of work went into those two bronze medals!! Big well done!
Alice did the triple jump for the first time and won a silver medal to finish off our medal haul for the weekend.
Thank you to all the parents and coaches who brought the athletes out to compete and supported them over the two days.
Celtic DCH 