Report from races over weekend 17 -18 May 2025

At the National 5k Championships in the Phoenix Park on Saturday 17th May we had 17 competitors. First home was Shane O'Neill in 16.12. Shane was followed by Paul Fleming 16.37 and Sean McCreery 17.38. Shane, Paul and Sean won gold in the M50+ team category. Next came David Reidy 17.41, Michael Murphy 17.52, Colm Murray 18.04, Louise Gaffney 18.47, Aisling O'Connor 19.18, Ronan Byrne 19.22, Gerry Boyle 19.35, Richard Deeney 19.34, Caitriona Dowling 20.08, Alexander Dunne Martin 19.57, Donna Mahon 20.54, Sheelagh Jones 21.17, Ester Lawlor 21.52 and Vanessa Sallier 22.27. The results show that Rathfarnham WSAF AC won silver in the F50+ (Donna, Sheelagh and Vanessa) and silver in F35+ (Louise, Caitriona and Sheelagh). TThe M35+ team were 9th. Well done to all who ran.

A busy week for club athletes aside from Wicklow Relay and National 5k road championships. In the Leinster schools finals Ryan O Neill finished 2nd in the senior boys 1500m and Ellie Oldrey finished 1st in Junior Girls 200m and 2nd in hurdles and both advance to National Schools finals in Tullamore in a few weeks time, good luck to both. We also had Aoibheann Nic Mhathuna qualify for All Ireland Schools in the Junior girls Shot Putt, 2nd place finish in Leinster.

Club runners took part in Wednesday’s BHAA 5k beach run in Sandymout with Colm Murray winning M55 anc Vanessa Sallier 2nd in F50.

In the Tullamore May Open today Cillian McCabe competed in 400m hurdle finishing 56.8s

Over East coast Stateside, Patrick Hickey ran a fine 800m PB of 1.58.6.

At the Bear organised Half Marathon in Clondalkin on Sunday 18th May, Amy Cooke in her first run on returning to the Club, ran 1.42 to finish strongly as 13th woman home. Well done to all.