Clonliffe Harriers womens division celebrated 50 years in existance by hosting a cross country race for junior and senior women today. We had a junior team in action led in by Alison Armstrong in a fine 5th place, closely followed by Cliona Murphy in 6th and Aoife Corr completing the team in 11th. The girls were delighted to finish 2nd team overall. Well done!
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Training/Competition week beginning Sat 12th Oct
Sat 12th Oct Junior womens team racing in Santry at 12 noon-will contact later
Sat 12th Oct Hole in the Wall 10.30 -all senior group and any of Hilary and Marys group who cant make Sunday.
Sun 13th Oct Hole in the Wall 11am-everyone, all Hilary and Marys group and all the newbies should do either Sat or Sunday this week to get ready for the final League races next week.
Tue 15th Oct Hut at the back of the church 7pm-everyone
Thur 17th Oct Navan rd school Hall 7pm -everyone
Sat 19th Oct Hole in the Wall 10.30 Senior Group only
Sun 20th Oct Last race of the cross country leagues for the younger athletes in the Phoenix Park starting at 11am . We need a full turn out of all Hilary and Marys groups for this competition. Its right on our doorstep so no excuses! Meeting arrangements will be on next weeks schedule.
National Cross country- venues finalised
The Even age All Irelands will be held in Santry on Sunday 17th November and the uneven age Nationals will be held in Waterford Inst of Technology on the 15th of December. All Ireland schools cross country will also be held in Waterford in March 2014.
Juvenile Cross Country Results To Date
The results of the Dublin Juvenile Cross Country can be found here. If anyone spots any errors let Mary know. There is only one more league race to go before the Dublin Championships so be sure not to miss it -‘ just keep on running’
Clonliffe Schools crosscountry
First club athletes into action today were the girls from the local Primary , schools. Emily Murphy had her best race ever in finishing 2nd overall in a huge field and led her Celtic team mates Anna Petit, Gillian Murphy and Sarah Byrne to helping MHOC win the team title. The girls from D7ET finished a fine 3rd overall, with Nina, Sophie, Ada, Hannah and Aislinn on the team.
Billy Brennan had a super run and he finished 3rd in the boys race. Conor Murphy and Ben Quinn were on the John Bosco and both lads ran very well in a very big field. Louis and Oliver also ran well for D7ET. The standard and numbers in both Primary schools races was way up on last year.
In the minor girls race Katie Hannah faded over the last 100m and fell back from her earlier 4th place to finish in 8th, the other club girls Emily and Abbey got blocked in the crowd and finished a bit back.
In the Junior boys race Darragh Finn ran a great race to finish 4th with Finn Burke Power a fine 8th place in the same race. In the inter girls race Alison Armstrong came 8th in her opening race of the year closely followed by 2nd placed team of Aoife Corr, Alison Burke and Ellen Byrne from St Dominics. Ben Quinn had a solid run finishing in the early twenties in the inter boys. Michael Hanley was down the field a bit and both boys are inter again next year.
In the senior girls race Cliona Murphy ran a gutsy race finishing 2nd overall and led her team from St Dominics to a fine 2nd place. The Senior boys race completed the programme and Pierre showed that he is wintering well finishing a fine 2nd despite a heavy fall om the last lap, Eoin finished in the 30’s and Danny in the 40’s, both running solidly.
A great day out for all the gang and we look forward to our next days racing on the 20th of October in the Phoenix Park.
League 3 St Annes Park
Well done to the 47 club athletes and their parents who made the trip to Raheny for league 3 in St Annes Park. Great runs all round from everyone and great race experience gained. We have a big gang running in Santry on Wednesday in the schools cross country and our next club outing will be in the Phoenix Park on Sunday the 20th of October for League 4.
