23rd June 2008 - Results and Fixtures

FINE RUN BY GRENNAN IN PETER ENGLISH 625
The annual Peter English 625 took place last Thursday evening on the newly relayed tarmac 625 circuit. On a bright sunny evening Catch Grennan put in a fine run of 1.34 but was made to work hard over the first half of the circuit by Damien Lawlor and John Scanlon. After the 400 mark Grennan strength began to show and a gap opened but Lawlor dug deep to keep the pressure on all the way to the line just 3 seconds behind. John Scanlon stayed on for third place and was well pleased with his time of 1.43. Pauline Lambe led the Ladies home followed by Una Mullen and Martina Conlon. Joe Wrafter took the Masters Men title ahead of Gerry Kavanagh and Pat Conlon.
Ladies – 1 Pauline Lambe 1.59, 2 Una Mullen 2.09, 3 Martina Conlon 2.23
Senior Men – 1 Catch Grennan 1.34, 2 Damien Lawlor 1.37, 3 John Scanlon 1.43, 4 Mike Murphy 1.48
Master Men – 1 Joe Wrafter 1.51, 2 Gerry Kavanagh 2.01, 3 Pat Conlon 2.03, 4 Andy O’Grady 2.10, 5 Larry Rigney 2.12, 6 Jim Dolan 2.17

Ladies - Pauline Lambe-Winner, Una Mullen-2nd, Martina Conlon-3rd

Master Men - Pat Conlon-3rd, Joe Wrafter-Winner, Gerry Kavangh-2nd

Pauline Lambe winning the 625

Senior Men - Damien Lawlor-2nd, Catch Grennan-Winner, John Scanlon-3rd

KENNEDY IN RELAY WIN
The Irish 4x400 relay team of Brian Doyle, Paul McKee, Gordon Kennedy and David Gillick recorded a time of 3.04.43 to win the event at the European Cup in Talinn, Estonia on Sunday. The squad had a clear win ahead of Denmark 3.08.76 and Latvia 3.08.97 but just fell short of their target time of 3.04.30 needed to put them in the current top 16 for Beijing. Hopefully the squad will have another opportunity to achieve the time and make the top 16 list.

NEWS ROUND UP
Three club records have been confirmed following round two of the National League in Santry, Ann-Marie Larkin broke her 400m record with 58.53 while Aine Brennan had a double in setting 17.03 for the 100m Hurdles and 10.45 in the Triple Jump. On Saturday 14th June in Plassey, Limerick Eoin Hannon was on the UL Selection for the annual meeting with the Ivy Leagues Combined Darmouth & Brown Universities USA. Eoin was the winner in the long jump with 6.94 metres (wind +2.5) ahead of I Achiliu (D+B) 6.63 metres. On Sunday 15th June Pauline Curley was the winner (17.48) and 20th overall in the Tom Byrne Memorial 5k road race in Lucan. Pauline travelled to Lisburn on Wednesday 18th for a Half-Marathon and in a field of almost 1,000 finishers ran 1.17.18 for 8th position overall and well clear of the second lady finisher Banuelia Katesigwa in 1.19.33. In BHAA news John Todd was on Sandymount Strand on Tuesday 17th for the ESB promoted 5k beach race, running 18.34 for 19th place overall and 1st over 55.
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Fixtures :
Sunday 6th July, Marian Geraghty 10k, Mount Bolus.
Thursday 10th July, Offaly Senior/Master/Junior T&F Championships.
Saturday 19th / Sunday 20th July, AAI Senior T&F Championships Santry.
Sunday 27th July, National League Final, Tullamore.

Training : Tuesday and Thursday at 6.30pm, Sunday morning at 8.30am (except on a race day) all are welcome.

See the club website tullamoreharriers.com

Circuit training led by Adrian Brennan every Wednesday at 7pm.

The club wishes to extend condolences to John Scanlon and the Scanlon family on the death of Dr Breda Scanlon.