26th March - Results and Fixtures

SPRING LEAGUE WIN FOR CATCH GRENNAN
The first leg of the Spring League was held last Thursday night with a 3k on the tarmac/tartan circuit. On a windy night Catch Grennan led out the race from the start and began to pull away from John Donegan with Jody O’Reilly close behind. As the race developed this trio maintained these positions and at the finishing line Grennan had 20 seconds to spare on Donegan with O’Reilly another 16 seconds behind.

1 – Catch Grennan 9.42, 2 – John Donegan 10.02, 3 – Jody O’Reilly 10.18, 4 – Nick Devery (Guest) 10.36, 5 – Barry Lambe 10.37, 6 – Aidan Gurry (Guest) 10.39, 7 – Johnny Feery 10.46, 8 – Joe Wrafter 10.49, 9 – Pauline Lambe 10.53, 10 – Ronan Duffy 11.11, 11 – Keith Gurry (Guest) 11.20, 12 – Adrian Curley 11.28, 13 – Maire-Triona Keane 11.31, 14 – Adrian Martin 11.35, 15 – Vinny Conlon 11.39, 16 – Andy O’Grady 12.15, 17 – Luke Mitchell 21.16, 18 – Gerry Kavanagh 12.16, 19 – Larry Rigney 12.26, 20 – Una Mullen 12.30, 21 – Pat Conlon 12.40, 22 – Brendan Kennedy 12.57, 23 – Tony McCormack 13.10, 24 – Fran Mollen 13.17, 25 – Sharon Leonard 13.20, 26 – Jim Langan 13.58, 27 – Martina Conlon 14.27, 28 – Jim Dolan 14.31, 29 – Mary Walsh 14.55, 30 – Emmet Curley 15.04, 31 – Pauline Curley 15.06.

RACE ROUND UP
On St Patricks day Pauline Curley, Catch Grennan and John Harkin lined out in the Portlaoise 5k. Pauline was first lady home in 17.13 while Catch was 8th in 16.33 with John 17th in 16.58 in what was a very competitive race with a large number of local athletes taking part.

Pauline Curley made the long trip to Larne on Saturday 22nd for the Premier Power Larne Half Marathon. The race had 474 finishers and although it was a bright dry day a bitterly strong North Easterly wind meant that conditions for running were far from ideal. On the day Pauline put in a fine run to take the ladies title and finish in13th place overall in 1.17.01, Helena Crossan of Innishowen AC was second in 1.23.46 with third place going to Cara Girvan of North Belfast Harriers in a time of 1.25.15.

On the Easter Bank Holiday Monday Jim Langan was in Cork for the annual Boherbue to Kiskeam Jack O’Keeffe 4 mile road race. On a windy course Jim was 1st over 65 in 30.49 ahead of George Webb Rising Sun AC in 32.01.

Fixtures :
Thursday 3rd April, Spring League Round 2 at 7pm.
Tuesday 8th April, Spring League Round 3 at 7pm.
Sunday 13th April, AAI Road Relays Raheny.
Sunday 20th April, AAI 10k Road Championships Athenry.

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.

Check out the new club website tullamoreharriers.com

The club wishes to extend condolences to Ger Hensey on the death of his mother Mrs Sue Hensey. Condolences also to the Gubbins family on the tragic death of Liz Gubbins. Liz and her friend Mary Collins from Kildare were killed in a hit and run accident while holidaying in Rome over the St Patricks weekend. Liz was originally from Limerick and had been working in Tullamore for the last year during which time she had trained with the Harriers.