Update 20th October from Athletics Ireland

From midnight this Wednesday 21st October Ireland moves to Level 5 of the National Covid Framework. The implications to sport are significant and as we await specific guidance from the Sport Ireland Expert Group we ask all our members to continue to be vigilant in observing all health guidelines and to reduce your social interactions.
The specific sporting advice for Level 5 is below.
Currently the government advice is that you must not travel outside the 5km radius from your home. Hence travel to Clubs for anyone living further than 5km from their Club is not recommended.

We recommend as a club that all our members abide by the guidance of the Government to ensure we do as much as possible to protect our friends, families and fellow citizens during this tough time.

We wish you all the best during this tough times and hope to see you all at training again soon.

Regards,
Marc Dalton
Midleton AC Covid-19 Officer

It is possible to meet with one other household in an outdoor setting which is not a home or garden, such as a park, including for exercise.

See below for details

https://www.gov.ie/en/press-release/66269-ireland-placed-on-level-5-of-the-plan-for-living-with-covid/#

VIRTUAL 5Km Run

We had over eighty runners taking part making it a wonderful success and huge thanks must go to Marc for organising it and to you the members for making it such a success. Here's hoping that real racing will be back to us soon. Stay Safe Danny

Race Results

There were some remarkable times all across all categories.

If anyone is not on the list please let me know.

It's really refreshing to see so many new members coming on board.

Great to see so many tops out there and co-operating with Covid-19 guidelines.

Thanks must go to Colette who helped out with compiling the results.

Well Done everyone and we will see you all at the next one in November. Marc Dalton

 

Name 1 Paul Hartnett 15.24 2 Tony Forristal 16.46 3 Daniel Bloom 17.03 4 John Hennessy 17.27 5 Edwin Cashman 17.47 6 Derek Ahern 17.56 7 Vicki Spiteri 18.10 8 Mike Cremin 18.38 9 Morgan O Regan 18.39 10 Ger O Regan 18.55 11 Henry Milward 18.56 12 Sinead O Driscoll 19.21 13 Paul Spiteri 19.35 14 Declan Dorgan 19.45 15 Brendan Curtin 19.51 16 James Long 19.55 17 Paul Moore 20.00 18 Andre Brodkorb 20.10 19 Fergal O Meara 20.24 20 Dan Twohig 20.33 21 Mark O Reilly 21.09 22 Paul Geary 21.25 23 Barry O Dwyer 21.25 24 Don McDonald 21.27 25 Louise Barry 22.04 26 Sean O Sullivan 22.04 27 Maire Walsh 22.05 28 Eugene McCarthy 22.05 29 Margaret Jones 22.28 30 Yvonne Fitzgerald 22.33 31 Gillian Bransfield 22.56 32 Kevin Moran 23.19 33 Breda Sheedy 23.27 34 Marc Dalton 23.28 35 Marian Ahern 23.30 36 Joseph Power 23.42 37 Marie Gilman 24.07 38 Siobhan Murphy 24.13 39 Christine Murphy 24.22 40 Linda Curtin 24.50 41 Maurice Ring 25.15 42 Colette Dalton 25.46 43 Katherine O’ Connor 26.19 44 Kevin Morrison 26.25 45 Brian Martin 26.27 46 Mary O Keefe 26.35 47 Bernie Twomey 26.38 48 Margaret Anglin 26.40 49 Donie O Connell 26.41 50 Susan Fitzgerald 26.45 51 Aistrid Michel 27.07 52 Elga Ryan 27.20 53 Natalie O Connell 27.26 54 Maura Smyth 27.33 55 Amy Cody 27.40 56 Tom Cody 27.40 57 Kevin Toth 27.42 58 Ian Kohler 27.46 59 David Hughes 28.09 60 Mike Dorney 28.20 61 Annette Fitzgerald 28.26 62 Loveness Hegarty 28.43 63 Noreen O Riordan 29.00 64 Gina Brunton 29.11 65 Sheila Bulman 30.39 66 Sabina Nagel 32.49 67 Billy Griffin 33.30 68 Andrea Lyons 33.36 69 Margo Donnelly 33.36 70 Michelle Dorney 34.08 71 Sarah O Brien 34.35 72 Suzanne Sloane 34.43 73 Kathleen O Connell 34.57 74 Elaine Finn 35.19 75 Darina O Brien 35.30 76 Sarah Jane Flaherty 36.05 77 Rebecca Dennehy 36.05 78 Michelle McGrath 36.13 79 Joan McCarthy 37.21 80 Anne Moore 39.00 81 Norma Moore 39.58

 

 

 

 

This weekend sees the start of our 5Km Series. Unfortunately we have to start with a virtual run but that is the times we are living in unfortunately and hopefully we will have real races before too long.

This run will form part of the series and will count as one of the races to qualify you for the T Shirt.

See Poster Below

You can do the 5Km anywhere you wish and then you e mail your time to daltonmarc@gmail.com 

If a few do it together the one e mail for all the times will do. If you do run it in a group PLEASE Social Distance and no more than fifteen in a group.

Several of you have been asking me what route will the actual run be on when we do get around to real running. The idea is we will start where the 1 Mile mark is on the Midleton 5 route and finish just beyond the 4 Mile mark. Any new members not sure of the suggested route give me a call or text. 0872403940

But you can run any route once it is 5km and anytime between Friday and Sunday.

 Results must be returned to Marc before 10pm Sunday

This is open to registered Midleton AC members only.

Best of luck to all and ENJOY

The Adventures Of Daniel Bloom

In January, my mum, Claire, received an email from the motor neurone disease association (MNDA) to ask if she'd support them and run the Royal Parks Half Marathon on 11th October. She's been competing in sprint triathlon for over 10 years so long distance running wouldn't be her strength but she's been supporting MNDA ever since 2012 when my uncle (her younger brother) sadly passed away at the age of 36 from this awful disease. 
As the Royal Parks Half Marathon was cancelled due to Covid, the MNDA set up a mission 5000 challenge, one mile for every person currently suffering from the disease in the UK. My mum set a target of 250 miles towards their goal and would finish with the virtual half marathon on 11th. I told her I'd provide her with some moral support by doing the virtual half on the same weekend as her. 
She did fantastically well, finishing in a time of 1 hour 53 minutes.My aim was to run sub 90 mins but Edwin and Tony managed to convince me after a few pints that we'd go for sub 85 minutes and that they'd pace me for it. We set off at 7:15am on Saturday morning and were also joined by Derek with a few miles to go. We all crossed the line in approx 83:15 which was a new PB for the 3 of us - a huge thanks to the lads for getting up early and coming along to support me. A big thanks also to Mags Anglin (Twohig) for the drinks and running gels she gave us at mile 8, they were much needed! 
To date, the tribute fund for my uncle stands at over £50,000 - if anybody wishes to donate, the link to do so is below.Any contribution would be much appreciated.
https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/clairebloom1?fbclid=IwAR38tAHJ9FQ9-i7jV5mOHTng0

Thanks very much!
Dan

Further Adventures

Many of you will be aware that we claimed the Bronze 

Medal Team Prize In the County Novice Cross Country

last Sunday. Dan was our 4th scorer on the team.If Dan had been

passed by the athlete behind him we would have tied for 3rd position

and then lost out on the count back. So as I always say every 

place counts. Well done Dan and his team on a job well done

Danny