The 10th Lakes 10k in Blessington, Co. Wicklow took place on Saturday 8th September. Well done to Louis McCarthy who came 2nd in a speedy 32:36 followed by Paul Stephenson 4th in 33:19. Gael Hernandez was 20th in 37:45 and Eric Cullen 33rd in 42:42
Well done to Ruari Long who was competing for Ireland in the U20 2018 British and Irish Mountain running Championships held this year in Glendalough, Co. Wicklow. He finished 10th overall and Ireland were 4th.
Great running by Rathfarnham WSAF AC’s Ronan Kearns who was on the silver medal winning Irish M40 8k cross country team in Torremolinos, Malaga on Wednesday 5th September. Another international medal for the collection!
The Dublin 10 mile championships were held in Swords on Sunday 9th September 2018. Shane O’Neill was first home for Rathfarnham WSAF AC to take the senior individual Bronze medal. Colm Murray won individual M50 Gold and Denis Daly individual M50 Bronze. The very youthful M35 team of Shane O’Neill, Colm Murray and Denis Daly won the team Silver medal.
Individual times were as follows:
Shane O’Neill 55:47
Colm Murray 59:18
Donagh Powell 59:40
Neil Skelton 62:13
Denis Daly 63:34
Archie O’Donnell 64:03
Katie Fitzgerald 77:45
Rachel Hayes 79:04
Ester Lawlor 80:09
Jackie Kingston 81:33
Clare Sheils 84:13
Catriona Perry 87:17
We had just two athletes competing in the 2018 Celbridge AC 5k on Thursday 30th of August. Mitchel Byrne ran perfectly to win the race in 14:56. The only way the not so young can compete with that is the way Paul Moran did by setting a new Irish Masters M55 National record of 16:33! Well done guys!
