At yesterday's Garda BHAA Cross Country race, over a very windy Phoenix Park course, beside the Magazine Fort, we had Vanessa Sallier 6th in the Ladies 2 .15 mile race in a time of 14.06. Vanessa was also 1st O.40. Clare Sullivan also ran in this race and was 12th in 14.06. In the men's 4 mile race Willie Morris was 29th in 23.39, followed by Tommie Bishop 68th in 25.26, Jack Doyle 85th in 26.16, John McHugh 94th in 26.35, Terry Clarke 99th in 26.35, Tony Connelly 27.13, Peter McDermott 28.02 (1st O.60), Philip Wright 29.12 and PJ Claffey 30.43. Full results on the BHAA website. Some good pictures of our athletes are on Racepix.com and Flickr websites. Well done to all.

Turlough Conway is reallly burning up the mountains this winter with 3 wins in a row over the the recent weeks and now leads the IMRA Winter League. On January 22nd he won the Howth Winter trail run, while Neil Bolger was second. On 28th January he won the Ticknock Winter run, while John Brennan was second and Richard Cattle 32nd. On last Sunday 12th Feb. Turlough won the Annagh Hill trail run, his third win in as many weeks, with Jason Reid 3rd and Greg Byrne 4th. Full details are on the IMRA website, including a detailed report by Jason on the Annagh Hill run. Well done lads on your efforts.

Turlough leading up Annagh Hill on Sunday (Picture courtesy IMRA)