WEEKEND RUNAROUND

Cross Country County Intermediate

The County intermediate cross country is on Sunday, 5 November. Please let me know by Tuesday if you would like to run there. Thank you! Sally 0872265857

Irish Life Dublin Marathon 2023

What a day there were some fantastic results achieved by some of our members here today. Mark Cronin was the first of our runners home in a time of 3.20.49 and he was closely followed by Don McDonald who because he had car trouble yesterday had to avail of the special service available to our club members from Brian Healy (Dublin Marathon Committee) Thanks a million for the help Brian.

Our first lady home was Maire Walsh who made a great marathon debut with a wonderful time of 3.34.41. Of course she says "Never Again" but we have all said and heard that before. Dermot Donovan also had a great run getting a well deserved PB by over ten minutes. Linda Curtin and Siobhan Murphy both had good runs and Siobhan made her debut in fine style. The ever consistent Amanda Cooney did not suffer from celebrating the South African win the night before and can celebrate tonight instead after her fine run.

The streaming service on U Tube worked a treat and it was great to be able to see some of our members crossing the line. The support as always with our club was second to none with a great crowd travelling up to cheer the runners on. Big thanks to ye all.

The Best Supporters Club In The World

Thanks to Breda Sheedy, Margaret Jones, Louise Barry and Derek Ahern for some of the photos and anyone else with photos or reports please send them on. We would be delighted to put them up here.

The big weekend is here at last and we wish the very best and safe travelling to all our crew running and supporting. We have five runners taking part the smallest number in many years but we wish the very best to Amanda Cooney,  Linda Curtin, Siobhan Murphy and Maire Walsh and our three male reps Mark Cronin, Don McDonald and Dermot Donovan and anyone else we might have going. We have a big crew going up to support. You can all follow it on the Marathon Tracker app. and also there will be live coverage on Irish Life Dublin Marathon/Athletics Ireland U Tube channel with commentary by Lizzie Lee.

Also we wish the best of luck to Fearghal Curtin Youghal AC who is making his marathon debut in Frankfurt.

Before the start Dermot, Linda and  Siobhan.