Sat 22nd Nov Hole in the Wall anyone Not going to Dundalk
Brians group to Santry at 11am
Sun 23rd Nov National in Dundalk. No smallie training today
Brians/ Dermots group Hole in the Wall 11am
Tue 25th Nov Hole in the Wall 7pm-everyone
Bogies at 4pm for primary school children
Wed 26th Nov High jump inthe Hall at 6pm
Thur 27tH Nov Navan rd school Hall 7pm-everyone
Dermot and Brians group to gym
Training today Tuesday at 4pm in the bogies for anyone who’s free. Omitted in error from weekly update.
Sat 15th Nov Hole in the Wall 10.30 -everyone Brians group to Santry 12.30-pls note later time
Sun 16th Nov Hole in the Wall 11am -everyone
Tue 18th Nov Hole in the Wall 7pm -everyone
Wed 19th Nov High jump in the Hall 6pm
Thur 20th Nov Navan Rd school Hall 7pm
Brian & Dermots group to gym
Sat 22nd Nov Hole in the Wall 10.30 -everyone not going to Nationals in Dundalk
Brians group check
Sun 23rd Nov National under 12, 14 18,20 in Dundalk-Travel details later
Under 12 girls team-Clare, Aobh, Katie, Alex, Antonia and Keelan
Under 14 team will be confirmed during the week.
The final round of the cross country league will be held on Sunday 30th November in Tymon Park. Distances will be the sme as league 2 and will be a nice run out for everyone. On the same day our senior women will be racing in the Dublin intemediate after the juvenile races are finished.
A big thank you to all the hellpers who came out on Sunday to do the registration for the rememberance run in the Phoenix Park last Sunday. Your support is very much appreciated.
A great description of today’s achievements by Dermot below!
We didn’t know until today that the Irish for Adamstown is “Maigh Arnaighe” or “The plain of the Berries”. One would assume it was called after an ancient family or perhaps the first homo sapien to roam the earth but as far as we are concerned we were in Evestown as our women’s cross country team continued their winning ways in the Leinster Intermediate Cross Country Championship today.
Due to a variety of circumstances we had only four runners today, and added to the fact that we were going up a class from Novice there was no room from error in our quest to add this title to the years haul. The winter green grass of this challenging course which comprised of one lap of 1000M and two of 1500M took a full cross country spike. While the course had dried out after recent rain there were some sticky muddy patches to be negotiated together with a 300m hill on each lap, with a smaller hill within the squiggle on the two large laps.
The field of 52 athletes started on time in this well organised event and Niamh joined a breakaway group of three early in the race. Aislinn was prominent in 9th place with Sinead in 11th and Aoife running a well thought out race in 22nd position. After the first lap we scored 44 points against a tight packing Liffey Valleys 42, but one was confident we had a bit in hand. At the end of lap two Niamh was in 3rd, Aislinn in 8th, Sinead in 11th and Aoife running strongly was inside the first 20. Our score was now in the high 30’s but Liffey Valley with runners drifting back had lost the team lead.
On the final lap Niamh consolidated her 3rd position while with great determination Aislinn, Sinead and Aoife picked off runners all the way round to finish in 7th, 8th and 12th respectively yielding a winning score of 30 points against Liffey Valley’s 56 and Kilmore’s 81. Our first three finishers also scored on the Dublin team for the inter county section with Aoife, despite her best ever cross country run just missing out on a second gold medal.
Another great day for our women’s team and its full steam ahead to the Dublin Intermediate on November 30thwhere we hope to have the full team available.
Celtic DCH 