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A big well done to the girls who competed in Tullamore today.

Our sprinters were first on the track today this morning. Catherine came 1st in the 100m (+2.1) with a time of 11.77 and Steffi 2nd in 11.79 – a great race! Steffi then went on to win her 3rd National U23 200m title. Celtic DCH officially has the 2 fastest U23 women sprinters in Ireland this year! Watch the U23 Womens 100m race here.

The speedy pair then ran TWO relay races in an attempt to secure a relay qualifying time for the European Under 23s which unfortunately didn’t work out – strong swirling headwinds and relays don’t mix! Watch one of the Womens U23 relay team’s attempts at the time here.

Our middle distance girls had some absolutely horrible conditions to run in as it lashed on them (Cleared up nice and sunny once they crossed the finish line though, typical eh?) Claire Brennan came third in the Junior Womens 1500m with Cliona Carthy in 4th and Cliona Murphy in 8th. Sinead Cronin came second in the U23 1500m.

5 National medals not a bad days work! Well done girls!

Some more pics from the day can be found here

Provisional Results

Pierre Murchan had a great win in the Tailteann games 1500m in Tullamore today. This was probably his best track race this year and he won it very impressively bagging himself a place on the Irish Schools team for the International against England, Scotland and Wales which will be held in Santry on the 20th of July! Next race for Pierre is the junior 1500m at the Cork City sports on Tuesday. Alison Armstrong ran her first 3000m on the track and finished 4th. Well done to both athletes.

Sat 29th June Water station crew over to St Marys hospital at 9am Best of luck to Pierre who is competing for Leinster at the Tailteann Games in Tullamore. No organised training today.

Sun 30th June Hole in the Wall 11am -everyone
Best of luck to our Junior and Under 23 athletes who are competing in Tullamore today. Cliona Carthy 1500m, Cliona Murphy 1500m, Sinead Cronin 1500m, Clare Brennan 1500m, Steffi Creaner and Catherine Mc Manus 100m and 200m.

Mon July 1st Smallies out to Santry 7pm (under 14 and younger)
Tue July 2nd Big kids only Hole in the wall 10.30
No evening training today

Wed 3rd July High Jump in the Hall 6pm

Thur 4th July Hole in the Wall 10.30 everyone -No evening training.

We had a huge gang of our smallies at the Donore sports this evening.We came home with lots of medals with standout performances from Antonio, Antoniette, Alison, Chloe, Dora, Billy and Sophie. Its also great to see the improvement overall from the athletes who come regularly to training. Well done everyone.

We had a group of our older athletes in action at the senior league races on Wednesday night in Tallaght with some very good results. In the B 1500m for women Alison Armstrong ran a pb and her best race in a long time. In the A race Clare Brennan and Niamh Donnelly ran really well and both girls got pbs. Michael Fitzpatrick won his heat of the 200m. Full results are on the Dublin athletics website.

On Saturday next the Dublin race series gets under way in the Phoenix Park with a five mile race. We have been asked to do the water station which is at the usual place over beside Marys HospitaL. If you are driving go to Chapelizod Gate and tell the stewards that you are going to the water station. Cycle over otherwise if you can and we need everyone there at 9.15 sharp. We should be cleaned up and gone by 11.45.