The Mullingar Half Marathon and the MSB 5k were two big events held over the weekend. In Mullingar, Gary Condon, fresh from his Ballycotton 10ml Pb on Sunday last, recorded a fine 76.38 to finish in 12th O/A and 4th in 0/40 Cat. The race was won by Peter Mooney in 73.31 with Siobhan O'Doherty first woman home in 78.48. Full results can be found at http://www.myrunresults.com/events/aon_mullingar_half_marathon_2017/2038/results
The MSB 5k took place on Sunday 19th March and over 1,200 athletes took part. Colm O'Heigeartaigh, running his first race since returning from injury, recorded a fine 18.00. Suzanne Foot ran 19.21 and was 2nd in age category and Ashling Smith ran 20.04 and was 3rd in Age category. Both Suzanne and Ashling were part of the Sli Cualann womens team who finished in 2nd place, just edged out by an excellent Raheny Shamrocks team. Emma O'Brien, 18.10, and Nicole Devitt 20.16, were the other members of the Sli Cualann team. John Coghlan, 15.12, was first home and Barbara Cleary,17.04, was first woman home. Full results at; http://www.myrunresults.com/events/msb_st._patricks_festival_5k_road_race/2012/results
In the Bohermeen Half Marathon, where some of our athletes were running as a warm up for the Rotherdam Marathon, Joe Kelly ran 84.04, Dominic Horan 84.09, Gordon McWilliams 86.08, Suzanne Foot 90.06 and 1st in age cat. Suzanne also led the Sli Cualann team to 1st place in the team event. Bobby Mitchell (doing a bit of pacing) ran 97.10, Georgina Devlin 97.06, Ciara Carter 99.39, Cathy Mitchell 1.43.15, Siobhan Butler 1.44.07 and Mark Duncan ran a Pb of 1.57.03.
Some great running at Ballycotton 10ml on Sunday 12 March. Gary Condon finished in 15th place, running a superb 53.36 a new Pb. Stephen O'Kennedy also recorded an excellent Pb of 59.19. Paul Allen, 65.18, was another to record a Pb, as was Jean O'Kennedy, 75.13. Jean also finished 2nd in her age cat., a great achievement in Ballycotton. Jason O'Connor 74.48 and Emer Hynes 87.42 were both very happy with their times. Peter Doran, 89.13 and Paul Gannon 89.20 both ran Pbs taking 3mins and 6mins respectively off their previous best. Richard Kavanagh ran 70.45. Results and photos can be found at http://corkrunning.blogspot.ie/
