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On Saturday and Sunday our indoor qualifiers for National were in action in Athlone. Some were first timers at that level and were there for the experience and others were there to improve on previous years.Tom and Lucien competed in the walk for the first time in the Dublin championship as did Max in the shot and found the step up to national to be a big one but all will learn from the experience as will Rion from her first nationals in the under 12 sprint.
Cliodhna raced in the finals of the 1500 and 800 and expected more from herself, Goda didn’t make the 800m final last year and improved this year by qualifying and lost out on 4th place overall by a tiny margin! Aimee Ryan marginally missed a place in the 200m final under 16 but ran a big pb 26.68 and was very happy with that!
Alice had a car breakdown on the way arriving just as her long jump was almost starting. She didn’t get her usual warmup done so was out of sorts and missed a place in the final. Well done everyone,

Cliona Murphy ran her first half marathon this weekend in Berlin clocking just over one hour 16 mins. A great result. Well done!

Thank you to all the parents who brought their children to Athlone and supported them over the two weekends.

Celtic/DCH are deeply saddened at the news of the passing of athletics legend Harry Gorman of Donore Harriers.

Our thoughts go out to his family and wide circle of friends in the Irish athletics community. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam.

Sat 1st April Dunboyne track 9.30 sprints group and older middle distance group.
Best of luck to Cliodhna, Alice, Max, Tom, Lucien, Rion, Goda and Aimee at the Nationals in Athlone on Sat and Sunday.

Sun 2nd April HITW 11 am everyone .

Tue 4th April 10.30 HITW everyone no evening training today. We are taking a spring break from training from today until Tues 11th April meeting at 10.30 at HITW. Enjoy your Easter weekend and your Easter eggs !

You can find the 2023 Dublin Graded Series booklet/fixtures here.

Our under 16 girls relay team competed in the national indoor championships in Athlone today. The standard was very high and the team surprised themselves by qualifying for the final running a second faster than in the Dublins. The final was going to be a tough outing and with four of the teams very close in standard. It turned out to be a scrappy affair with Aimee having to detour to lane 3 to avoid a crash which saw the unfortunate DSD athlete take a heavy fall. Aimee managed to stay on her feet and handed safely to Goda and then to Alice who just missed out on 3rd place by .19 of a second. Martha had great first legs in both races.
All four should be proud of themselves, they couldn’t have done any more! Well done girls.