Sunday 17 October 2021

WEEKEND RUNAROUND

Butlerstown 5Km

Two of our members travelled to Butlerstown for a 5Km there organised by West Waterford AC .John Cashman and Neilus Aherne who have both been out of action due to injury made their comeback to action there and both showed they are well on the road back with John clocking 19.49 and Neilus 19.53. Delighted to have ye back guys Well done.


John Hennessy Qualifies To Run For Ireland


Running in the Open Cross Country in Abbotstown in Dublin today Midleton ACs John Hennessy finishes 3rd which automatically gains him a place on the Irish International O/50 Team for the upcoming internationals. Well done John a great day for our club.


GOLD For Our Ladies Team 

and Individual Silver For Eileen Leahy




Another great day at the Novice Cross Country where our Ladies Team won GOLD and Eileen Leahy won individual SILVER. 

Our ladies team all ran really well and huge kudos and thanks are due to Susan McGrath who stepped in at the very last minute to make up the winning team and made a great contribution with her fine running as well.   

                                       Ladies were led home by Eileen Leahy who had another great race battling all the way to narrowly lose out for first place. Next came Loveness Hegarty who continues to improve with every race she was followed by Susan McGrath and then the ever solid and reliable Sally Drennan completed the winning team.

Our men despite battling gallantly finished a fine fourth. They were led home by club Captain Declan Dorgan followed by Ger O'Regan and Edmond O'Sullivan, Then came the other members Maurice Ring, Michael Murphy and Francis Maunsell. Everyone played their part and gave their all to narrowly lose out on the medals.

Another great day for our club. 

Well done all and big thanks to everyone who came to support.



































Glen River Park Run

This took place as usual on Saturday morning and we had two runners. Henry Millward who had a great run in coming 2nd overall in 18.40 and Tony Murray who finished 9th in 22,21. Well done lads.


Upcoming Races 



EYERIES 

We have a race in Eyeries on Saturday 6th November at 2:30pm.
I would appreciate it if you could share with your running community in Midleton and east Cork generally. We are looking to promote a good standard club race here in west Cork. We are celebrating our return on this the seventh running of our event following last years cancellation with a large prize pool that will appeal to the keen runner.

Top 5 Male & Female Finishers
1st - €250
2nd -€150
3rd - €100
4th - €75
5th - €50

Course Record Bonus of €50
Course Record Alan O'Shea (Bantry A.C.) 25:21
Orla Byrne (St.Finbarrs) 32:16

1st, 2nd & 3rd Category prizes Junior to over 75's in M&F (19 categories)
We also have TEAM prizes for Male Team (top 4 to score) Female Team (top 4 to score) &
Mixed team