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