RUNAROUND

Dan's Great Limerick Run

On a wild and wintry morning I took part in the Great Limerick Virtual Half Marathon Run. It was one of toughest races I have taken part in due to the conditions. It was great to take part and have it finished.

Training and Membership

C2 5K

A NEW C2 5K will commence on Wed 13th Jan at 6.30 pm.  This is strictly for beginners or those returning to running. We are also open for membership from those already running. Enquiries to mdtacinfo@gmail.com or 0872403940

Training

I am getting lots of enquiries as to when we are back training. We will start back officially next Monday 4th Jan. Details will be posted here when finalised and dependent on the HSE and Athletics Ireland Guidelines.

If we cannot train in Pods of Fifteen I will email out the sessions.

Membership 

For only 50e Membership for 2021 is now available please see previous post or go to www.midletonac.com

Great Limerick Run

On a wild and chilly morning four of our athletes took part in the Great Limerick Virtual Run. Breeda Sheedy ran a very impressive 10 miler and Marian Ahern completed the 10k run, despite carrying a hip injury. Linda Curtin and Mark Walsh both ran the half marathon, with commendable performances.  Well done to all.  A good finish to a tough year.

 When Cork Beat The Dubs

Read all about our own Joan Hough in an 

fantastic article by John Walsh Definitely well worth a read.

https://www.echolive.ie/corksport/arid-40197405.html

MEMBERSHIP Special Offer Only 50e

Membership for 2021 is now available and makes a great Christmas Present. 

We have a special offer for the year for  Senior and Master athletes the cost is only 50e.

Students and Junior athletes (born during 2002) are 25e.

This covers insurance whilst on official training along with all the many other benefits of being in  the club.

We are asking people to renew as soon as possible and for New Members to contact a member of the committee before signing up or ring 0872403940.

Renewals available here    https://www.midletonac.com/

We ask if possible to please register online

See Information On the Captain’s Run below in 

previous post.

Anyone not coming to Training can just turn up and donate as they wish anytime on Monday from 5.30pm -7pm or on Wednesday from 7pm -7.15pm

 

TRAINING

We must abide by the rules so that we can continue training safely.

 

This Form MUST be completed before coming to training

 

https://form.jotform.com/203041737216043 

 

We have decided continue with the two sessions on Mondays. We will have  Session 1 at 5.30pm and Session 2 at 6.15.

We are asking as many as can to attend the 5.30 session ie. those working from home etc. but please Text  Sally at 0872265857 and let her know your choice asap so we can keep track of numbers 

 

 

PS You must still complete your POD Form below.

 

We will be in Pods of fifteen on Monday evening. If you are coming please be sure to social distance, stay in your POD from when you arrive until you leave and you MUST book in above please for contact tracing. 

 

Pod 1A is for 5 min - 7min Milers

 

Pod 1B if for 7min - 9min Milers

 

Pod 1C is for 9min ++ Milers

 

We must abide by the rules so that we can continue training safely.

 

 

Message From Club Captain Declan Dorgan  

Hi all! Apologies for the LONG message! I hope that you're all having a lovely weekend and that preparations for the holiday season are going well.

Having spoken to a number of committee members these past 2 weeks and especially now as we see a worrying rise in the number of covid cases throughout the country, the general consensus is that we should not run the Captain's Run this year.

I'm requesting that members send me a picture of members (and their families/ friends?) - on What's App/ Viber - doing a Christmas run / event or just saying happy Christmas etc. by 1pm on the 24th and I'll post this on our Facebook page on Christmas day!

We normally have a collection as part of the captain's run and as this run won't be happening this year we've agreed to have a collection bucket at our training sessions on Monday and Wednesday nights this week where voluntary contributions may be made. Any contributions collected will be donated to a Midleton based charity. 

This charity will be decided upon before our training session on Monday.... but as is our tradition for this event, we do intend to keep this charity local!

Best wishes to you all, stay safe and enjoy the build up to Christmas!

Declan

Anyone not coming to Training can just turn up and donate as they wish anytime on Monday from 5.30pm -7pm or on Wednesday from 7pm -7.15pm

Declan's Number is 0876324667

 5Km Series

Due to the Current Covid-19 Restrictions. The Third Race in the series will also be a Virtual 5km Race. You can run the 5km anywhere you like within current restrictions. Your time will count in the overall times throughout the series. 

You must complete Four of the Five Races to receive a unique finisher T-shirt. The 3 rd Race can be run Virtually anytime from: Friday 18 th – Sunday 20th December 

Times must be submitted via Link provided below only: https://form.jotform.com/203155915828056 

No results are gathered from any other platforms as previous Race 

We encourage all to follow the Covid-19 guidance and not to gather in large groups to run it together. I hope that when restrictions ease over the next few weeks we might all be able to meet up for the later Races in the Series. 

Best of luck everyone! 

Other Dates on the race Calendar 

 Sunday 17th January 2021 - 9:30am

  Sunday 21st February 2021 - 9:30am

Confined to registered members of Midleton AC

https://form.jotform.com/203155915828056 

TRAINING

We must abide by the rules so that we can continue training safely.

This Form MUST be completed before coming to training

https://form.jotform.com/203041737216043 

New Club Gear Available 

 Makes Ideal Christmas Presents

A new batch of club gear has arrived Please contact Bernie 

if you require any. Bernie 0872311688

 

TRAINING

 We have decided continue with the two sessions on Mondays as last week worked so well. We will have  Session 1 at 5.30pm and Session 2 at 6.15.

We are asking as many as can to attend the 5.30 session ie. those working from home etc. but please Text  Sally at 0872265857 and let her know your choice asap so we can keep track of numbers 

PS You must still complete your POD Form below.

We will be in Pods of fifteen on Monday evening. If you are coming please be sure to social distance, stay in your POD from when you arrive until you leave and you MUST book in here below please for contact tracing. 

Pod 1A is for 5 min - 7min Milers

Pod 1B if for 7min - 9min Milers

Pod 1C is for 9min ++ Milers

We must abide by the rules so that we can continue training safely.

This Form MUST be completed before coming to training

https://form.jotform.com/203041737216043 

Blast From The Past

A friend dropped in this copy of a 2001 Irish Runner to me

last week. There are some past, present and some sadly no 

longer with us members from the club in it (not all wearing

the club colour's ). How many can you spot ?.

Presentation of MOVE-MBER Cheque to Marymount Hospice 

Picture shows Amanda Cooney accepting the cheque on behalf of Marymount Hospice from Declan Dorgan and Marc Dalton.

Report from Marc Dalton

The Senior Section of the  club were  delighted to present Marymount Hospice with a cheque for €2000 from the result of our MOVE-MBER Challenge.

A little background in to the challenge:

The club committee held a meeting in late October to come up with a unique plan to get our members out running while stuck in lockdown, as a result of Covid-19 restrictions members could not train together or attend training sessions.

We knew that no training or training partners would discourage people from going out and keeping up with their usual training regime. 

Midleton AC always likes to support charities through race takings and always encourages its members to get involved in campaigns throughout each year.

As this year put a lot of charities in poor standing with little ability to go out and have fundraisers we thought with very little outgoings that we would be in a position to help at least one charity out.

We asked all participants to vote on their chosen charity, the charity chosen by the members turned out to be Marymount Hospice, it is a very well know to all members, as most people in cork would have some connection to the Hospital, and the great work they do in providing respite care.

We came up with a plan to motivate our runners with a challenge to run a target of 5000 miles for the 30 days of November and we called it MOVE-MBER.

The initial goal of every 1000 miles achieved, the club would donate €250 to the chosen charity with the overall target of 5000 miles, if this 5000 target was achieved we agreed to allocate a set amount of €2000.

With a tough winter ahead and dark gloomy nights we thought this would be the perfect aid to help our members to stay fit and have some goals to keep their motivation up.

The challenge was simple, go out and run as many miles a week and log it at the end of each week, weekly tallies were shared on social media platforms to keep all participants motivated throughout.

Week 1 totals = 1925 Miles - Week 2 totals = 1549 Miles - Week 3 totals = 1643 - Week 4 Totals =1404

Total Mileage = 6521

The big performers on the challenge were :

1st  - Ger O'Regan with 244.8 Miles  

2nd - Edwin Cashman with 221.5 Mile

3rd - Derek Ahern with 175 Miles 

Eighty five club members participated throughout the challenge giving an overall average of just short of 20 miles a week for each member.

The feedback was very good and we hoped it helped people during this Unprecedented times we are all in at present.

This all took place during our Club 5k Race Series which has been run virtually and has had a really impressive take up and some real fast times throughout.

The series races are held on the 3rd weekend of each Month from Oct-Feb, for members only with over 80 participants in the first 2 races.

Next race is on the weekend of Friday 18th-20th Dec 2020

Places still available for tomorrow evening 

 TRAINING WEDNESDAY

Training will continue with Capt. Declan at 7pm and we meet at the Co Op Stores in Market Green.

We need you to register below for Covid tracing but no need to book with Sally that only applies to Mondays.

POD 1A under 8min mile

POD1B over 8min mile

C2 5K meet at 6,30pm

This Form MUST be completed before coming to training

https://form.jotform.com/203041737216043 

A very big thank you to all who attended Monday's two 

sessions. They worked out really well with the 5.30 session 

reliving the crowd for the 6.15 one. 

We will be continuing with this arrangement for the 

coming weeks.

TRAINING GUIDELINES

TRAINING

IMPORTANT UPDATE

We have decided to opt for two sessions due to the crowd we got last Wednesday so tomorrow we will have a Session 1 at 5.30pm and Session 2 at 6.15.

We are asking as many as can to attend the 5.30 session ie. those working from home etc. but please Text  Sally at 0872265857 and let her know your choice asap so we can keep track of numbers 

Thanks Danny

PS You must still complete your POD Form below.

We will return to the All Weather Hockey Pitch in Pods of fifteen on Monday evening. If you are coming please be sure to social distance, stay in your POD from when you arrive until you leave and you MUST book in here below please for contact tracing. 

Pod 1A is for 5 min - 7min Milers

Pod 1B if for 7min - 9min Milers

Pod 1C is for 9min ++ Milers

We must abide by the rules so that we can continue training safely.

This Form MUST be completed before coming to training

https://form.jotform.com/203041737216043 

MOVE-MBER

Delighted to report that the mileage reported to the club for the month of November is a staggering six thousand five hundred and twenty one miles. Yes that is 6,521 miles.

 We will be arranging for Declan Club Captain and Marc the very hard working main organiser to make a donation of 2,000 Euro to Marymount next week. This was an amazing effort by everyone. Well done all.

Mallow 10 Set for 4th July, Mallow, 

10:30am Sunday July 4th 2021

Mallow AC's hugely popular Mallow 10 is set to resume again 

on Sunday July 4th 2021, moving from its traditional 

March slot for 2021, but will revert back 

to March for the 2022 event. #MallowAC #Mallow10 #Mallow
https://www.corkathletics.org/news/1911-mallow-10-2021.html

TRAINING

Official training resumes on Wednesday evening at 6.30pm for C2 5K Group and all others at 7pm with Declan. 

Meet outside the Co Op Stores at Market Green

This Form MUST be completed before coming to training

https://form.jotform.com/203041737216043 

MOVE-MBER

 Last week's totals have now surpassed the target of 5000 miles for the month with a week remaining. Please keep submitting up until Monday night and lets see what we can achieve.

Link for this week's total mileage

https://form.jotform.com/203041277722044

Cloyne 4Km Series is back and its VIRTUAL

And the great thing about it is that it co insides with our 5Km's so that now you can do two races in one run. Just do our 5Km and Cloyne 4Km is included in the same run unless you would like to do two separate runs.

MOVE-MBER

Please submit you mileage for the week here https://form.jotform.com/203041277722044

Cloyne 4Km Results

Cloyne 4Km unable to finish their series with their fifth race decided to do the results after four races and we are delighted to report that we had two prizewinners. Eileen Leahy came 3rd Lady overall and John Hennessy came 3rd Male. Well done to both and also to Louise Barry who finished 5th Lady overall. There are great results especially with the top class competition that is always in Cloyne. Well done also to Cloyne Community for being so fair in awarding the prizes.

Keeping The Five Alive by John Walsh

KEEPING THE FIVE ALIVE (John Walshe)

There is no doubting the popularity of the 5km on today’s fixture list. Part of the attraction is obviously due to the profusion of parkruns now held throughout the country every Saturday morning, along with the various Couch to 5K programmes.

Therefore, it’s heartening to see the five-mile distance alive and well in West Cork with the introduction this year of the Beara Autumn 5-Mile Series. Even though as a nation we may be all going the metric way, there is still something special about the imperial distances, especially the five and 10-milers.
When Mark Gallagher asked me to pen a little article for this programme, he suggested that maybe I’d recall the attraction of the Ballycotton Series which I was involved with. The years move on and today many new runners, especially in this region, probably have never have heard of such a venture. So a little bit of history mightn’t go astray

The first race to take place in the East Cork village of Ballycotton happened in August 1977 (yes, it was the last century!). A total of 34 runners turned up that night to run five miles and seven months later the inaugural Ballycotton ‘10’ arrived. The five-miler moved to June that summer with another race of the same distance taking place in the nearby village of Shanagarry in August. Over the following years, two more summer races were added in Chuchtown South and Ballyandreen and so a four-race series was born.

The fourth Thursdays of May, June, July and August therefore became sacrosanct because to gain the coveted plaque, runners had to complete all four events. Family holidays were arranged around the dates and for those on shift work, many a swap had to be accommodated.

Numbers taking part in each race gradually grew to around 200-250 and the standard was exceptionally high. At the Ballycotton ‘5’ in 1993 – a race won in 23:50 by Mark Carroll, European junior 5000m champion two years before and still the Irish 3000m record holder at 7:30.36 – a total of 51 runners (out of 262 finishers) were all under 28 minutes.

Into the new millennium, numbers continued to increase up to the 500 mark. These brought with them the headaches associated with parking, stewarding and the general workload undertaken by a small organising committee. Therefore, a combination of factors heralded the end of not only the Summer Series but also the Ballycotton ‘10’. After 40 years, it was decided, not without regret, that maybe it was time to go out while still on too

And so, what constitutes a good race series? Well, there’s the obvious such as accurate courses (even though they don’t all have to ‘fast and fast!’), reasonable entry fees, individual and category prizes and of course that welcome cup of warm beverages and goodies afterwards. But there must also be an element of challenge so that those completing the set number of races can feel a sense of achievement.

There is no doubt that all those ingredients are evident in this Beara Autumn Series. You can be sure when those lovely commemorative medals shown on the website (by the way, one of the most impressive sites around) are presented today in Eyeries, they will certainly have been hard earned and richly deserved.

 

 

Worth checking out at 

https://www.corkathletics.org/news/1896-strength-conditioning-for-athletes-autumn-2020.html

MOVE-MBER

 Well Done to everyone for participating in the MOVE-MBER Challenge.

Week 1 = 1925

Week 2 = 1549

3474 Miles So Far  

€750 in the sponsorship so far and on course to reach the €2000 max club donation by the end of November.

KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK EVERYONE 

Great to see so many participating and getting out and exercising

Best regards,

Marc Dalton

VIRTUAL 5Km Results

1. Daniel Bloom 16.59

2. John Hennessy 17.45

3. Ger O Regan 18.59

4. Vicki Spiteri 19.20

5. Declan Dorgan 19.37

6. Henry Milward 19.48

7. Barry O Shea 20.07

8. Mark Kelliher 20.10

9. Andre Brodkorb 20.12

10. Derek Ahern 20.13

11. Paul Spiteri 20.21

12. Eugene McCarthy 20.33

13. James Long 20.39

14. Mark Walsh 20.45

15. Brendan Curtin 20.45

16. Mags Jones 20.53

17. Barry O'Dwyer 21.09

18. Rod Scanlan 21.14

19. Sean O Sullivan 21.33

20. Don McDonald 21.45

21. Yvonne Fitzgerald 22.00

22. Breeda Sheedy 22.10

23. Louise Barry 22.12

24. Paul Geary 22.23

25. Marc Dalton 22.32

26. Dan Twohig 22.46

27. Marian Ahern 23.15

28. Kevin Moran 23.22

29. Sally Drennan 23.23

30. Marie Gillman 23.28

31. Joe Power 23.39

32. Tony Forristal 24.10

33. Christine Murphy 24.19

34. Elga Ryan 24.25

35. Kevin Morrison 24.43

36. Colette Dalton 24.45

37. Linda Curtin 24.48

38. Mary O Keeffe 24.52

39. Maurice Ring 25.19

40. Katherine O Connor 25.27

41. Gillian Bransfield 25.42

42. Mark Fuller 25.47

43. Donie O Connell 25.55

44. Margaret Twohig 26.06

45. Loveness Hegarty 26.09

46. Brian Martin 26.41

47. Astrid Micheel 26.52

48. Bernie Twomey 26.54

49. Susan Fitzgerald 26.57

50. Javier Gómez López 27.01

51. Kevin Toth 27.32

52. Mike Dorney 28.05

53. Ian Kohler 28.10

54. Annette Fitzgerald 28.47

55. Gina Brunton 28.52

56. Maura Smith 29.00

57. Caroline Cashman 29.02

58. Lorinda McCarthy 29.20

59. Clare Deegan 29.40

60. Mervyn OLuing 30.23

61. Michelle Dorney 30.57

62. Sheila Bulman 31.20

63. Sabina Nagle 31.66

64. Shevaun Hogan 32.00

65. Sarah OBRIEN 32.37

66. Andrea Lyons 33.18

67. Suzanne Sloane 33.24

68. Joan McCarthy 33.32

69. Darina O Brien 33.32

70. Noreen O Riordan 33.36

71. Sarah Jane Flaherty 33.40

72. Anne Moore 34.00

73. Billy Griffin 34.00

74. Kathleen O Connell 34.42

75. Norma Moore 35.01

76. Mary Walsh 35.42

77. Elaine Finn 36.10

 

VIRTUAL 5KM

Some shots of those who ran so far, 

 SUBMITTING YOUR TIMES

Virtual 5Km Times Here

 

https://form.jotform.com/203155915828056

MOVE-MBER Mileage Here

https://form.jotform.com/203041277722044

Please only use these ways for submitting your results to Mark  Thanks Danny

NEW GEAR

The new gear has arrived so those of you with orders in please Bernie

 

Due to the Current Covid-19 Restrictions.

 

The Second Race in the series will also be a Virtual 5km Race.

 

You can run the 5km anywhere you like within current restrictions.

 

Your time will count in the overall times throughout the series.

 

You must complete Four of the Five Races to receive a unique finisher T-shirt and be a member of Midleton AC.

 

The 2^nd Race can be run Virtually anytime from:

 

Friday 13^th – Sunday 15^th November

 

Times MUST be submitted via Link provided below only:

 

https://form.jotform.com/203155915828056

 

No results are gathered from any other platforms as in the previous Race

 

We encourage all to follow the Covid-19 guidance and not to gather in large groups to run it together.

 

I hope that when restrictions ease over the next few weeks we might all be able to meet up for the later Races in the Series.

 

Best of luck everyone!

 

 

 

Other Dates on the race Calendar

 

·         Sunday 20^th December 2020 - 9:30am

 

·         Sunday 17^th January 2021 - 9:30am

 

·         Sunday 21^st February 2021 - 9:30am

 

MOVE-MBER

 Week 1 Totals = 1810 Miles 

This is massive commitment from all that participated.

This might go up as more people might still submit their times.

Best regards,

Marc Dalton