7th March 2011 - Results and Fixtures

Easy Win for Grennan in Emo

The annual Peter Devery Memorial challenge between Tullamore Harriers and Ballyfin Athletic took place in the grounds of Emo House. A welcome addition this year was the participation of athletes from St Michael’s club in Portarlington. The event is run over two legs with the second leg fixed for this coming Sunday in Charleville Estate.

On a lovely spring morning the race was run over three laps of a dry cross country course in ideal conditions. Catch Grennan went into an early lead with no one prepared to match his fast early pace. Behind Grennan a group of three consisting of Richie Galvin, Robaird Miller and Eddie Garry were engaged in a battle for second place. Grennan continued to stetch his lead and came home a clear winner by a margin of one hundred and twenty metres from second placed Richie Galvin who ran very strong to hold off the challenge of Ballyfin’s Robaird Miller with Eddie Garry occupying fourth place. Brendan Abbott maintained his recent good form to take fifth place just ahead of Pauline Curley who was the first woman to finish in sixth place.

Results 4300 metres :
1 Catch Grennan 14.20 ; 2 Richie Galvin 14.44 ; 4 Eddie Garry 15.00 ; 5 Brendan Abbott 15.21 ; 6 Pauline Curley 15.33 ; 7 Jody O’Reilly 15.45 ; 8 Alan O’Neill 16.07 ; 9 Edwin 16.13 ; Liz Cuskelly 16.18 ; 12 Vinny Conlon 16.46 ; 14 Ray Martin 16.52 ; 16 Ger Lynam 17.06 ; 21 Adrian Martin 17.29 ; 24 John O’Connell 17.45 ; 26 Michelle Mullaney 18.08 ; 27 Mary Daly 18.13 ; 28 Brendan Kennedy 18.17 ; 29 Maurice Fitzgerald 18.24 ; 34 Rita Daly 18.43 ; 38 Leonard Owens 19.07 ; 41 Mark Brady 19.33 ; 42 Tony McCormack 19.57 ; 43 John Phelan 20.00 ; 44 Nita McLoughlin 20.03 ; 46 Martina Conlon 20.44 ; 50 Angela Martin 24.12 ; 51 Charlotte Abbott 25.39 ; 52 Marlina Buckley 28.26 ; 53 Natanya Kilmurray 28.26.

Race Roundup.
John Todd competed in the BHAA Garda/St Raphael’s Credit Union mile Cross Country race held in the Phoenix Park. John was placed 80th out of a big field of 231 runners and he was the winner in the over 60 category in a time of 25.25.

Master runner Ray Flanagan rolled back the years with a super run in the Ballycotton 10 mile road race where he finished in 78th place out of a field of 2,500 in a fast time of 58.58.

Fixtures :
March 13th : P Devery second leg in Charleville Estate, Tullamore.
March 20th : McNamara 5 mile road race at 10.00 am.
March 24th : Spring League Round One. Mile at 7.00 pm.

Training: Tuesday and Thursday at 6.30pm, Sunday morning at 8.30am Except on a race day. New members always welcome.

With the dark evenings now here it is important to be seen on the roads so reflective gear must be worn while training on the roads

Membership is now overdue. Forms available in clubhouse.