25th May 2008 - Results and Fixtures

RAY DELANEY’S TEAM WINS CLUB TRACK AND FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPS
The second round of the Club Track and Field League was held on Tuesday 20th May with a very close finish as the outcome was in the balance going into the last event which was the 6 x 200 relay. Earlier there were clear win for Aine Brennan, Sean Sweeney, Adrian Brennan, Catch Grennan, Claire Collins and Tom Rafferty before Ray Delaney led his team to victory in the relay. The final positions were 1st Team A (Ray Delaney) 115 points, 2nd Team C (Jim Dolan) 112 points, 3rd Team B (Adrian Martin) 104 points. Members of the winning team were Ray Delaney Captain, Aine Brennan, Barry Lambe, Damien Lawlor, John Donegan, Johnny Feery, Mick Fleming, Pauline Curley, Richie Faulkner, Ronan Duffy, Sharon Leonard.

Results:
400m Men 1 Sean Sweeney 57.7, 2 Ray Delaney 57.9, 3 Mick Fleming 60.2, 4 Mick Murphy 64.1, 5 Vinny Conlon 74.5, 6 Adrian Curley 88.1

400m Women 1 Aine Brennan 67.8, 2 Maire-Triona Keane 69.5, 3 Mary Walsh 86.1

3000m 1 Catch Grennan 9.42.9, 2 Mick Murphy 9.53.2, 3 Jody O’Reilly 10.08.7, 4 Jody O’Reilly 10.17.8, 5 Johnny Feery 10.24.4, 6 Liz Cuskelly 10.39.3, 7 Adrian Curley 10.40.3, 8 Pauline Lambe 10.43.7, 9 Pauline Curley 10.44.8, 10 John O’Connell 10.53.8, 11 Adrian Martin 10.55.8, 12 Joe Wrafter 11.00.7, 13 Maire-Triona Keane 11.18.1, 14 Deirdre Lambe 11.18.7, 15 Vinny Conlon 11.47.3, 16 Sharon Leonard 12.04.1 17 Larry Rigney 12.35.2

Long Jump Men 1 Adrian Brennan 4.42, 2 Sean Sweeney 4.35, 3 Adrian Curley 3.91, 4 Ray Delaney 3.63, 5 Ian Sweeney 3.62, 6 Adrian Martin 3.02

Long Jump Women 1 Aine Brennan 4.52, 2 Maire-Triona Keane 3.81, 3 Pauline Lambe 3.74

Javelin Men 1 Tom Rafferty 40.94, 2 Ken Woods 33.39 3 Ray Delaney 26.88, 4 Michael Carroll 26.80, 5 Sean Sweeney 24.81, 6 Ian Sweeney 15.71

Javelin Women 1 Claire Collins 23.51, 2 Lisa Dolan 20.23, 3 Lorna Mangan 18.48

6x200m relay 1 Team A (Ray Delaney, Ian Sweeney, Mick Fleming, Damien Lawlor, Ronan Duffy, Aine Brennan)

2.45.2, 2 Team C (Paddy O’Flaherty, Jody O’Reilly, John O’Connell, Pauline Lambe, Gerry Kavanagh, Ian Sweeney)

2.58.1, 3 Team B (Adrian Curley, Adrian Martin, Catch Grennan, Mick Murphy, Liz Cuskelly, Michael Carroll)

Team Captain Ray Delaney is presented with the Club T&F Shiled by Chairman John Cronin


Tom Rafferty's winning throw in the javelin


Catch Grennan leads the 3,000 metres

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RACE ROUND UP
The Boston Scientific 4 mile road race attracted the usual large number of runners and walkers last Sunday. The ladies took a clean sweep of the senior prizes with Pauline Curley winning from Liz Cuskelly and Pauline Lambe. Category winners were Deirdre Lambe, John Donegan, Mary Walsh, Benny Beatty and Michael Lambe.

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Results with place and time : 4 Declan Lambe 21.16, 6 Catch Grennan 22.00, 7 John Donegan 22.14, 10 Michael Murphy 22.44, 11 Pauline Curley 22.47, 12 Martin Carroll 23.02, 14 Jody O’Reilly 23.11, 15 Johnny Feery 23.30, 16 Adrian Curley 23.45, 17 Eanna Gowran 23.56, 21 Liz Cuskelly 24.50, 22 Pauline Lambe 25.04, 23 Barry Lambe 25.07, 25 Vinny Conlon 25.42, 26 Maire-Triona Keane 25.46, 27 Ray Condron 26.06, 28 Joe Wrafter 26.23, 29 Deirdre Lambe 26.33, 33 Andy O’Grady 27.09, 36 Katie Vance 27.34, 37 Stephen Malone 27.36, 39 Craig Murray 27.51, 41 Pat Conlon 28.02, 43 James Grogan 28.11, 44 Paschal Molloy 28.13, 45 Mary Daly 28.17, 46 Paddy Dolan 28.32, 47 Fran Mollen 28.54, 50 Larry Rigney 29.26, 58 Martina Conlon 30.21, 59 Garry O’Connor 30.35, 61 Archie McCormack 30.59, 66 Paul Marsden 31.49, 67 Declan Lambe 31.55, 71 Mary Walsh 32.34, 76 Jim Dolan 33.10, 78 Irene Brown 33.22, 80 Darragh MacNamara 33.50, 85 Ursula O’Reilly 35.14, 93 Siofra MacNamara 37.28, 96 Joy Cox 37.59, 106 Niamh MacNamara 39.43, 117 Kerry Molloy 42.37, 125 Michael Lambe 44.58, 139 Jim Langan 51.35, 165 Benny Beatty 58.27, 169 Noel Gowran 58.55, total of 224 finishers.

The Mullingar 5k Road League Round 2 results were Declan Fahey 1st 16.02, John Donegan 9th 17.06, Pauline Curley 14th 17.25, Andy O’Grady 76th 21.04, Gerry Kavanagh 91st 21.33, Brendan Kennedy 92nd 21.40 and Paddy Dolan 101st 22.02. Declan Fahey was in England on Sunday 18th May to take part in The Shell Chester Half Marathon and finished in second place in a time of 1.12.05. The race had 1841 finishers and was won by Paul Sankey (Liverpool Running Club) in 1.11.02 with Philip Matthews (Chepstow Harriers) third in 1.12.31. John Todd was back in action last Saturday after a recurring arch injury in his left foot, at the BHAA Intel 10k John ran 37.50 to win the over 55 section and was 21st overall and led the foodgroup team to 1st place in Grade C. The Brennan girls both set new club jump records in recent competition with Emer recording 5.34 metres in the Long Jump and Aine recording 10.24 metres in the Triple Jump.

Fixtures :
Friday 30th May, Jack Cox 5k Kilcormac, incorporating Offaly Road Championships.
Sunday 8th June, Leinster Senior/Masters Track & Field Championships, Tullamore.
Sunday 15th June, National League Round 2.

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

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