Club Notes 07 June 09
Huge Turnout for Rathgormack '5'
The Auto Power Rathgormack 5 mile road race attracted a field of 152 runners and over 60 walkers to the village on Friday evening last.The race was the first of four in this year's Outfield Sports/Asics Three Counties Challenge. In perfect running conditions over this challenging course, Sergiu Ciobanu of Clonliffe Harriers took the men's race with a time of 26:01.Dwane Farrell (Tinryland) came second in 26:24, while third place went to Shane Mullaney (Thurles Crokes).
The ladies' race was won by Pauline Lambe (Tullamore Harriers) in an impressive 29:39 with Madeline Loughnane(Thurles Crokes) second and Corinna Walsh (West Waterford) in third. There was a big turnout Carrick Roadrunners for the race and Daragh Byrne had a great run to be first club person home in 18th position. Anthony Grace and Tommy Falconer were our next finishers while John O' Sullivan made a fine return to race action.Martina O' Dwyer was our first lady finisher in 33:54 ahead of Jackie Power in 35:38 and Mags Power wasfirst lady O-50 clocking an excellent 38:43. Well done to all our runners.
Full Carrick Roadrunners' results:
18th Darragh Byrne 30:17 ; 27th Anthony Grace 31:03 ; 29th Tommy Falconer 31:04 ; 35th Cornelius McFadden 31:45 ;
37th Patrick Roche 31:59 ; 38th Brendan Cronin 32:00 ; 49th Mark Connolly 32:55 ; 54th John O' Sullivan 33:10 ;
57th Paddy Kerwick 33:33 ; 60th Martina O' Dwyer 33:54 ; 64th Andrew Downey 34:03 ; 70th Andrew O' Meara 34:43 ;
79th Jackie Power 35:38 ; 87th Paddy Bunnock 36:31 ; 105th Mags Power 38:43 ; 106th Bobby Power 38:43 ;
107th Jane Evans 38:45 ; 108th Tara O' Donnell 38:48 ; 111th Matt Greene 39:07 ; 112th Ann Power 39:09 ;
115th Ann Cronin 39:44 ; 116th Stephen Bourke 39:55 ; 119th Mick O' Shea ; 121st Shirley O Shea 40:19 ;
122nd Geraldine Houlihan 40:32 ; 123rd Niamh Clifford 40:33 ; 124th Elaine Walsh 40:35 ; 125th Jimmy Power 40:59 ;
128th Catherine O' Donovan 42:16 ; 129th Brian Nugent 42:17 ; 130th Geraldine Lynch 42:41 ; 133rd Carol Kelly 43:10 ;
136th Susan Collins 43:22 ; 143rd Fiona O' Meara 46:00 ; 145th Mary Finucane 47:30 ; 148th Michelle Foran 47:46 ;
149th Gay Fogarty 49:30
The club would like to thank all who acted as stewards and marshals and helped to provide post-race refreshments on the night. Next race in the series will be the Champion Kiely Ballyneale 5k on Friday,July 3rd at 7:30pm.
Corl Marathon Teams
Well done to our six relay teams who completed the Cork City Marathon on Bank Holiday Monday. All our runners thoroughly enjoyed the experience and the big-race atmosphere was by all accounts fantastic.Our teams were:
'Carrick Smashers' : Fiona O' Meara,Barry Torpey,Elaine Walsh,Susan Collins (3hrs 41mins);
Carrick Speeders : Mary Finucane , Mags Power , Catherine O' Donovan, Bobby Power (3hrs 44mins);
Carrick Flyers : Jimmy Power , Patrick Roche , Philip Kelly (3hrs 31mins);
Carrick Runaways : Seamus Ward , Michelle Foran , James Fox (3hrs 25mins);
Big MAC : Ciaragh Conway, Mary Conway, Aoife Conway (4h 30mins); MAD : Daragh Byrne, Margaret Byrne (3h 29 min)
A big thank-you from all to Geraldine Lynch for organising the teams' entries.
Touraneena 5k
Bank Holiday Monday also saw the running of this year's Touraneena 5k road race, the fourth race of the Ger Wyley Sports/Nike Summer Series. Victory went to Sandis Bralitis of West Waterford AC in 15:21.
Carrick Roadrunners' results:
30th Tommy Falconer 18:26 ; 54th Brendan Cronin 19:28 ; 56th MarkConnolly 19:34 ; 93rd Paddy Brunnock 22:34 ;
96th Matt Greene 22:46 ; 110th Mick O' Shea 23:50 ; 114th Ann Cronin 24:12 ; 127th Brian Nugent 25:13
Little South Run
The hugely popular Little South Run over 4 miles organised by St. Senan's AC took place in Kilmacow last Sunday. The men's race was won by Sergiu Ciobanu while Lucy Darcy took the ladies' event. Once again our runners were out in force and clocked the following times :
Ebbie Wells 25:10 ; Brendan Cronin 25:30 (third over-45 prize) ; Mark Connolly 26:22 ; Niamh Clifford 31:27 ; Ann Cronin 31:34 ; Brian Nugent 33:27 ; Valerie O' Callaghan 35:13 ; Vera O' Dwyer 42:55