4th April 2009 - Results and Fixtures

Jody O’Reilly Best in Spring League Mile
The second leg of the Spring League took place on Tuesday last. It was run over the classic mile distance which is four laps of the track. Adrian Curley who won the first leg over 3000 metres was the man in form and was expected to be the man to beat.

Mick Murphy who was second last week to Curley took out the pace from the start and was closely followed by Adrian Curley and Jody O’Reilly. In the closing stages Curley made a few attempts to get by Murphy but to no avail. With two hundred metres to go Jody O’Reilly made the decisive break to pass Murphy and maintained his form to the finish to win by twenty metres in a time of 4.52.8. Mike Murphy battled to the end to finish second in 4.55.5 with Adrian Curley having to settle for third place in a time of 4.57.2. Anthony Rickard ran a fine race to finish fourth in 4.59.4 .

In the individual standings it could not be any closer with Adrian Curley, Mick Murphy and Jody O’Reilly all level on points. With the final leg to be run this week over 5000 metres each of the above mentioned must fancy their chances of overall victory. Fra Mollens team are leading the way with 409 points closely followed by Martina Conlons team on 395 points while Larry Rigneys team have it all to do with only 291 points.
Results

1 Jody O’Reilly 4.52.8 ; 2 Mick Murphy 4.55.5 ; 3 Adrian Curley 4.57.2 ; 4 Anthony Rickard 4.59.4 ; 5 Pauline Curley 5.09.4 ; 6 Darren Butler 5.14.2 ; 7 Johnny Feery 5.16.2 ; 8 Nick Devery 5.20.3 ; 9 Maire Triona Keane 5.22.3 ; 10 Tony McCormack 5.23.6 ; 11 Adrian Martin 5.28.6 ; 12 Vinny Conlon 5.34.4 ; 13 Catch Grennan 5.35.8 ; 14 Maurice Fitzgearld 5.47.6 ; 15 Liz Cuskelly 5.49.7 ; 16 Pat Conlon 5.55.5 ; 17 Mary Daly 6.04.1 ; 18 John O’Connell 6.04.6 ; 19 Anthony McCormack 6.07.6 ; 20 Anna Redmond 6.09.8 ; 21 Sinead Rigney 6.10.5 ; 22 Larry Rigney 6.17.5 ; 23 Fra Mollin 6.20.3 ; 24 Brendan Kennedy 6.23.3 ; 25 Jim Langan 6.23.4 ; 26 Una Mullen 6.28.9 ; 27 Martina Conlon 6.36.3 ; 28 James Grogan 6.45.1 ; 29 Jim Dolan 6.48.0 ; 30 Mary Walsh 6.50.7 ; 31 John Cronin 7.21.1 ; 32 Tom Feery 8.12.3

Bupa Great Ireland 10k run
A huge field of 11,000 runners, joggers and walkers assembled in the Phoenix Park for Ireland’s fastest growing event, the Great Ireland 10k run. Pat Conlon had a great run to finish in 219th place in a time of 40.32. Next for the Harriers was Adrian Martin in 284th place in a time of 41.26.Vinny Conlon recorded a time of 42.25 followed by Barney O’Brien in 45.22. Martina Conlon also had a good run and finished in a time of 46.15 while John Cronin completed the 10k in 59.41.

Business Houses
Last Saturday John Todd competed in the Dublin City Council 4 mile road race which was run in St Annes Park in Raheny. John showed he is right back on form by winning the over 55 section in great time of 23.23.

Duathlon
The Jealous Wall Duathlon took place in Belvedere, Mullingar last Sunday and some of our members put in very good performances. The race started with a 5k run followed by a 20k bike ride and finished with 2.5k run.

Mary Daly was the ladies winner in a time of 1.06.57 followed by Maire Triona Keane in second place in 1.08.04 while Pauline Lambe made it a clean sweep of the prizes for Tullamore by coming third in a time of 1.09.24.

Mick Murphy finished in 9th place overall and clocked a good time of 1.02.28.

Fixtures
April 19th National road Relays in Raheny, Dublin
April 26th National 10k Road Championships. Navan.
May 3rd Boston Scientific 4 Mile Road Race at 11.30 am.
May 4th Leinster Novice and Masters Road Race.
Friday 22nd May. Jack Cox 5k Road Race in Kilcormack at 8pm.

Training: Tuesday and Thursday at 6.30pm, Sunday morning at 8.30am (except on a Race day). New members always welcome.