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A heads up to let you all know that we will heading to the National indoor arena on Tuesdays starting on Tue 6th of Dec meeting at 6.45 for warm up. Fee on the night willBe 3 euro . (Start saving up
The coins). Only athletes who attend training regularly are to come to indoor training as space will be limited.

Thank you to everyone who helped us out at the Remberance run in the Phoenix park this morning. Much appreciated by the organisers.

Sat 12th Nov HITW at 10.15 sprints group plus middle distance born 2009 and older.

Sun 13th Nov HITW at 11am everyone.
Remberance run helpers needed from 8am for registration at the usual spot on the Furze road.

Tue 15th Nov Bogies at 4 for anyone who’s free. Everyone else Grangegorman at 7pm.

Thur 17th Nov Grangegorman at 7 for everyone.

Tue 8th Nov Bogies at 4 for anyone who’s free. Everyone else Grangegorman at 7pm

Thur 10th 5 pm group meet at HITW. Everyone else Grangegorman at 7

It’s going to be a bit colder now. Training will continue as usual. Did out the hats and wear long sleeve t shirts under a short sleeve for training. If doing long runs in the dark it is your responsibility to be visible, so
Please wear a bright/ high viz top.

The curtain came down on a busy weekend of cross country running on both sides of the Atlantic for our club at this exciting new course today. The event excellently hosted and organised by Tallaght AC was held on a disused golf course with plenty of undulation, muddy patches following recent rain in addition to stretches of good running. Something for everyone you might say.

Our under 19 womens team of Cliodhna, Claire and Summercombined to take 3rd team. Christopher finished an excellent 13th in the boys section while Alex, making his DCH debut was came home in 15th place in the junior men’s race.

Having split the squad in order to race in the Leinster Championships the previous day the pressure was on the Senior Women to deliver against a strong field. Jodie and Faye led the group for lap and a half with Cliona in close proximity and Alison operating just outside the top ten. Eimear and Aoife by agreement maintained places in the early 20’s.

Heading into the final lap Faye had moved into third ahead of Jodie. Cliona was holding 5th/6th under pressure and Alison having a fine run was gaining all the while. Eimear and Aoife made steady progress and were just outside the top 20 at this stage.

At the finish Faye came in 3rd closely followed by Jodie in 4th, Alison running a storming finish finished 6th with Cliona 7th. Eimear worked her way into the top 20 and Aoife, who sacrificed a run in the Leinster’s the previous day to support the team gain a couple of places more. Full results here; https://www.myrunresults.com/race-results/all.

With a low total of 20 points we retained the Jim McNamara Trophy, struck in honour of the late Olympian and coach.

There are nine major cross country championships on offer each season, three novice, three intermediate and three seniors. We have won the first 4 but the sterner test has yet to come.

To round off the day we witnessed a fantastic run by Pierre in the men’s senior section. Always in the first four Pierre produced a magnificent final lap to finish second and claim the individual silver medal. This is the first men’s medal won by a DCH athlete at these championships since Roy Dooney in 1989.

So far so good.

Competition Update

Another great weekend of racing from the club’s perspective with two senior team titles!! (Memories of the good old days about 30 + years ago, when this was a common occurrence). Well done, Ladies!

On Saturday at the Leinster Senior’s club championships in the Mountain View Golf Club in Ballyhale, Co Kilkenny, the Ladies team romped to our 3^rd team title of the current season! Claire led the team home in 7^th from Aislinn (10^th), Sinead (11^th), Sorcha (debut in blue with only one shoe, in14^th), Ellen (17^th), Christelle (30^th), Aoife C (32^nd), Niamh (34^th) and Aoife D (43^rd). DCH with 42 points, led home Tullamore Harriers in 2^nd with 57 points and Dunboyne 3^rd with 87 points.

At the Scottish Short Course championships in Kirkcaldy on Saturday, Niamh Carr (20th overall in 13.50) got the better of her sister Aoife (28^th in 13.58) – two excellent runs at the National Seniors!

Also, on Saturday at the English National XC Relays in Berry Hill Park, Mansfield, Lucy led the Charnwood B team to 20^th overall (from 139 finishing teams).

On Sunday at the Dublin Senior XC championships in City West Dublin, the ladies in blue retained the Jim McNamara Team Cup with Faye (3^rd), Jodie (4^th), Alison (6^th), Cliona (7^th), Eimear (19^th) and Aoife (24^th) – a magnificent team performance with great packing up front! DCH with 20 points were convincing team winners from DSD in 2^nd with 37 points and Raheny Shamrocks 3^rd with 42 points – our 4^th team senior team title of the season! All these performances augurs well for the National Seniors!

In addition to these great runs over the weekend, the DCH junior U19 ladies team placed 3^rd behind MSB and DSD with Cliodhna 5^th, Clair 12^th and Summer 16^th.

In the Junior Men’s race, Alex finished an excellent 15^th on his DCH debut with Christopher a few places back in 20^th. In the Senior Men’s race over 10km, Pierre outsprinted Emmet Jennings (DSD) to finish an excellent 2^nd overall behind the winner Efrem Gidey (Clonliffe).

In the US, Ailish Hawkins finished 2^nd over 3 miles at the Marmonte Finals in Agoura, California – with a time of 17.33 for the distance!  

Training Update

Wednesday’s nights weekly circuits session continues at the Cabra Parkside Community Centre – starting at 7.30pm sharp (2 mile warm up and cool down recommended).

This week’s training continues with 2 weekly sessions – Tuesday & Friday OR Saturday. We train as per normal at TUD on Tuesday, followed by the Universities Relays in Maynooth on Friday for some of our University based athletes and a regular tempo reps session on Saturday morning from DFS (to start at 10.30am at latest). After this session, we WILL MEET as a group at the HITW for a quick meeting to finalise plans for the National Seniors XC championships in Rosapenna, Donegal on Nov 20^th

Wk 16 (Nov 7/13): Easy running 3 days, one longer run at talking pace on Sunday, 1 x repetitions session on Tuesday, 1 x tempo run at LT pace / race pace + 2 x personal S&C sessions + ONE COMPLETE REST DAY [Sessions: Tuesday & Saturday] Please check team email for session details.