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

 Some of our members who did the Virtual Remembrance Run on Sunday. Susanne Sloane. Sheila Bulman, Annette Fitzgerald and Bernie Twomey.

Club VIRTUAL 5Km

Don't forget the club's Virtual 5Km continues next weekend. Details to follow later.

MOVE-MBER

Please submit your mileage for this week to

See Link below

https://form.jotform.com/203041277722044

1. Amanda Cody 2. Andre Brodkorb 3. Andrea Lyons 4. Anne Moore 5. Annette Fitzgerald 6. Astrid Micheel 7. Barrie Drennan 8. Barry O'Shea 9. Bernie Twomey 10. Breeda Sheedy 11. Brendan Curtin 12. Brian Martin 13. Brian Cott 14. Caroline Cashman 15. Christine Murphy 16. Claire Fitzgerald 17. Clare Deegan 18. Colette Dalton 19. Dan Twohig 20. Daniel Bloom 21. Danny McCarthy 22. Darina O Brien 23. David Cody 24. David Hughes 25. Declan Dorgan 26. Deirdre Aherne 27. Derek Ahern 28. Don McDonald 29. Donie O Connell 30. Edwin Cashman 31. Eileen Leahy 32. Elga Ryan 33. Ger O Regan 34. Gillian Bransfield 35. Gina Brunton 36. Helen Gilroy 37. Henry Milward 38. Ian Kohler 39. James Long 40. Javier Gómez López 41. Joan Hough 42. Joan McCarthy 43. Joe Power 44. John Hennessy 45. Katherine O Connor 46. Kathleen O Connell 47. Kevin Moran 48. Kevin Toth 49. Linda Curtin 50. Louise Barry 51. Loveness Hegarty 52. Mags Jones 53. Maire Walsh 54. Marc Dalton 55. Margaret Twohig 56. Margo Donnelly 57. Marie Gillman 58. Mark O'Reilly 59. Mark Walsh 60. Mark Kelliher 61. Mark Fuller 62. Mary Walsh 63. Maura Smyth 64. Maurice Ring 65. Mervyn OLuing 66. Michelle Dorney 67. Michelle Mcgrath 68. Mick Murphy 69. Mike Dorney 70. Morgan O'Regan 71. Norma Moore 72. Paul Moore 73. Paul Geary 74. Rebecca Dennehy 75. Rod Scanlan 76. Sabina Nagle 77. Sally Drennan 78. Sarah O'Brien 79. Sarah Jane Flaherty 80. Sheila Bulman 81. Shevaun Hogan 82. Sinead O'Driscoll 83. Siobhan Murphy 84. Siobhàn O'Leary 85. Susan Fitzgerald 86. Suzanne Sloane 87. Tony Forristal 88. Yvonne Fitzgeral

 

 Below is the list of those already signed up for MOVE-MBER

Anyone not on the list please contact Marc asap.

The nominated charity by the members is Marymount Hospice.

The link to upload the mileage will be sent tomorrow.

1. Andre Brodkorb

2. Katherine O Connor

3. Margo Donnelly

4. Ian Kohler

5. Deirdre Aherne

6. Kevin Moran

7. Annette Fitzgerald

8. Daniel Bloom

9. Kathleen O Connell

10. Marc Dalton

11. Ger O Regan

12. Kevin Toth

13. Edwin Cashman

14. Caroline Cashman

15. Andrea Lyons

16. Morgan O'Regan

17. Brendan Curtin

18. John Hennessy

19. Margaret Twohig

20. Mike Dorney

21. Colette Dalton

22. Maura Smyth

23. Mervyn O Luing

24. Shevaun Hogan

25. Claire Fitzgerald

26. Brian Martin

27. Gillian Bransfield

28. Mark Kelliher

29. Louise Barry

30. Paul Geary

31. Siobhan Murphy

32. Declan Dorgan

33. Barrie Drennan

34. Clare Deegan

35. Sally Drennan

36. Gina Brunton

37. Mags Jones

38. Christine Murphy

39. Henry Milward

40. Derek Ahern

41. James Long

42. Maire Walsh

43. Michelle Mcgrath

44. Mick Murphy

45. Tony Forristal

46. Breeda Sheedy

47. Joan Hough

48. Sarah 

Jane Flaherty

49. Linda Curtin

50. Danny McCarthy

51. Joan McCarthy

52. Susan Fitzgerald

53. Siobhàn O'Leary

54. Astrid Micheel

55. Rod Scanlan

56. Amanda Cody

57. Elga Ryan

58. Helen Gilroy

59. Mark O'Reilly

60. Joe Power

61. Mark Walsh

62. Javier Gómez López

63. Mary Walsh

64. Don McDonald

65. Norma Moore

66. Darina O Brien

67. Sheila Bulman

68. Dan Twohig

69. Sinead O'Driscoll

70. Anne Moore

71. Barry O'Shea

72. Rebecca Dennehy

73. Mark Fuller

74. Sarah O'Brien

75. Brian Cott

76. Maurice Ring

77. Eileen Leahy

78. Donie O Connell

79. Bernie Twomey

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MOVE FOR MOVE-MBER

 

For the month of November, we want all members to get on the move for MOVE-MBER • Send on your total weekly mileage at the end of each week • For every 1000 miles accumulated from the club members the club will donate €250 to a nominated charity • The goal for the month is 5000 miles. If this is achieved the club will donate a capped amount of €2000 to a nominated charity • The best part is you get to nominate the charity of your choice. The charity with most nominations will receive the donation • This is a fantastic way to stay connected during this dark and dreary month in the current restrictions • Prize for most miles during the month    So let’s all try to MOVE-MBER together during this month   How does it work? • If you want to participate you must register before 6th November 2020 via link below • Nominate your preferred charity via link • Keep track of your weekly totals • First weekly submittal due on Sunday 8th November (1st-8th Nov) • A separate link will be provided to all participants once registered to submit weekly totals     Registration Link: https://form.jotform.com/203042679185054

TRAINING Everyone should have got an email outlining the Sessions for this week. If you have not got an email and want the sessions please give me a text with your name and email address 0872403940 Danny