Celtic DCH

No shopping at the Square, Tallaght for us today despite the festive season, we had the more serious business of competing in the Dublin Road Race Championships.

This was a beautiful day for racing and unusually not a puff of wind at the foot of the Dublin mountains. The championship was held in conjunction with the annual Tallaght 5Km therefore a field of some 500 runners toed the line. The course was essentially a circuit of the Greenhills Road/Tymon Park area meaning there was a good drag on the last kilometer.Ellen/Silje and Christelle (making her DCH debut) were prominent from early backed up with excellent packing by Aoife/Fiona and Abbey. Ellen having an inspired run worked hard all the way and was rewarded with first place and personal best leading our team home to victory. Christelle was first junior home and picked up a nice prize. There was an issue over some results (ineligible athletes) which was more or less resolved at the time of leaving but it meant were working off provisional team results initially. Full details will follow when final results are made available. We are in with a shout for a team prize in the open race category and this should be known later today.
In the meantime the first draft results are posted on the POP UP Races website here.

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Sat 13th Nov HITW 10am sprints group and athletes born 2008 and older.

Sun 14th Nov HITW at 11 everyone. Remberance run helpers at usual spot on main road from 8. If you don’t know your time text Mary.

Tue 16th Nov Bogies at 4 for anyone who’s free. Everyone else Grangegorman at 7.

Thur 18th Nov HITW at 4.30 sharp for older middle distance group. Everyone else Grangegorman at 7pm

Sat 6th Nov HITW 10am older middle distance group and sprints group.

Sun 7th Nov HITW at 11am everyone. Good luck to the community games squad in Tymon Park. See earlier post. Note 10am start, be there at 9.15 everyone. Only 6 short races so will be very quick programme.

Tue 9th Nov Bogies at 4 for anyone who’s free. Everyone else Grangegorman at 7

Thur 11th Nov HITW 4.30 older middle distance group. Everyone else Grangegorman at 7.

Remaining cross country dates.

Sun 21st Nov under 12 and 14s run in Santry. Jessica, Saoirse, Pearl, Amelia, Robin, Aoibhinn Byrne, Aoibhinn McAuley, Aimee, Goda, Nina, Erin. Details later.

On Sunday 28th Nov we will have league 3 which will be the last cross country race for younger athletes before Christmas. Venue not confirmed but might be Tymon park.

Weather getting a bit colder so long sleeve t Shirt under a short sleeve should be worn to training. Bright colours / flourcent preferably. Dig out the hats!!

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Next Sunday there will be trials for the Dublin community games team in Tymon park starting at 10Am. Note the start time as this was previously 11am.

We haven’t done this event before and it’s quite limited age groups.

Under 14 run 700m
The following are under 14 for this event.
Goda, Jocelyn, Ava, Nina, Caoimhe,

Under 13 run 900m
Aimee Ryan, Erin, Aoibhinn, Aoibhinn, Joe, Martha, Abigail, Bruce,George,

Under 12 run 500
Hugh, Megan, Saoirse, Jessica, Ella, Pearl, Lena, Caroline, Daire, Tom, Freya,
Fergal,

Some will be on different age groups for this as the community games have their own qualifying dates.
The under 14 and under 12 are odd distances because they are trials for a Dublin relay team.

The course is the same one as League 1, near the basketball arena.

We had a busy day in Trinity grounds for day 2 of the Dublins which also included the junior and senior races. First off were Aisling, Edward and Canice in the under 9 races, they all ran well and finished well up the field but outside the medals this time. Our under 11 girls were next off and they were real troopers , running 1500m for the first time. Amelia led them in finishing 7th, Juliette, Ellen and Saoirse all in the top 25 finished 4th team by just a few points. Hard luck girls! Next time!!
Eoin was our Lone ranger in the boys race and he had a solid run.
Our under 13 girls were in great form today finishing 3rd team with Jessica, Megan, Abigail, Ella and Pearl running their socks off over 2500m . Fabulous running girls!

Our junior women’s team finished 3rd team with Celine having a fine run in 2nd place overall. Clare was next in , and fair play to Sarah and Jana for staying the course to help the team to 3rd place.

The junior lads were next running over 6k which was very tough. However they got stuck in and a big shout out to Joe, Christopher, Rowan and especially Conor who is just back after a bad flu. The happiest boys at the races today!!

We kept the good wine till last today with our senior women winning the team event for the first time in 30 years. Huge well done to Lauren, Jodie, Edel, Cliona, Ellen, Aoife, Aislinn, Aoife and Sinead. So proud of you all. Thanks to Enda and Dermot for all their hard work and to all the supporters out there today.