27th November 2008 - Results and Fixtures

Winter League Wins for Grennan and Kelly
Last week saw the running of two legs of the Winter League. Three teams were picked and every runner scores points for their team. The first leg took place last Thursday night and was run over 3000 metres and was run on the tarmac lap. Forty two runners including some guests lined up at the start. Catch Grennan took an early lead ahead of the chasing pack which included John Harkin and Adrian Curley. Grennan increased his lead as the race went on but on the last lap of five Adrian Curley came with a great run and closed right up on Grennan. However Grennan held on to win in a time of 9.46, two seconds ahead of Adrian Curley with John Harkin running on well to take third a further 8 seconds behind.

Full Results; 3000 metres.
1 Catch Grennan 9.46; 2 Adrian Curley 9.48; 3 John Harkin 9.56; 4 Colm Maher (guest) 9.59; 5 Riobard Miller (guest) 10.00; 6 David Finn (guest) 10.02; 7 Ronan Duffy 10.12; 8 Johnny Feery 10.17; 9 Keiran Keenan (guest)10.21; 10 Stephen Bland (guest) 10.27; 11Declan Madden 10.31; 12 Christopher Finn (guest) 10.32; 13 Declan Keyes 10.34; 14 Nick Devery 10.39; 15 John O’Connell 10.43; 16 Liz Cuskelly 10.47; 17 Richie Faulkner 10.51; 18 Adrian Martin 10.53; 19 David Murray 10.59; 20 Maire Triona Keane 11.02; 21 Joe Wrafter 11.22; 22 Damien Lawlor 11.28; 23 Liam Dunne 11.29; 24 Pat Conlon 11.40; 25 Vinnie Conlon 11.40; 26 Brendan Carroll 11.54; 27 Mary Daly 11.59; 28 Tony McCormack 12.05; 29 Fra Mollen 12.08; 30 Maurice Fitzgearld 12.08; 31 Paddy Dolan 12.10; 32 Nicole Cuskelly (guest) 12.24; 33 Sinead Rigney (guest) 12.25; 34 Larry Rigney 12.29; 35 Brendan Kennedy 12.33; 36 Barry Naughton 12.54; 37 Gerry Kavanagh 12.55; 38 Ger Hensey 13.02; 39 Una Mullen 13.05; 40 Gordon Kennedy 13.47; 41 Martina Conlon 13.56; 42 Jim Dolan 14.33

Winter League 2nd leg
The second leg of the Winter league was held in Charleville Estate last Sunday morning in sunny and frosty conditions.As in the first leg there was a good turnout and thirty four runners lined up for the race, run over 3600 metres.

Noel Kelly dominated the race from the start and was never troubled to come home a clear winner in a time of 12.11. As in the first leg Catch Grennan and Adrian Curley had a good battle with Grennan prevailing once again to take second in 12.45 and Adrian Curley third. John Harkin found an extra gear to hold off Martin Carroll and finish fourth with Carroll fifth just a second behind. Pauline Curley was first woman home when finishing sixth in 13.10.
In the team standings after two legs, Team B is leading with 410 points from Team C on 373 points and Team A with it all to do on 299 points. The final leg will be run on Thursday 11th December and another big turnout is expected as team captains rally their troops for one last push for glory.

Results 3600 metres: 1 Noel Kelly 12.11; 2 Catch Grennan 12.45; 3 Adrian Curley 12.50; 4 John Harkin 13.06; 5 Martin Carroll 13.07; 6 Pauline Curley 13.10; 7 Jody O’Reilly 13.38; 8 Johnny Feery 13.42; 9 Ronan Duffy 13.50; 10 Declan Madden 13.57; 11 Nick Devery 14.11; 12 Damien Lawlor 14.27; 13 Joe Wrafter 14.29; 14 Richie Faulkner 14.37; 15 John O’Connell 14.46; 16 Adrian Martin 14.48; 17 Noel O’Brien 14.49; 18 Liz Cuskelly 14.50; 19 Ann Carroll 14.51; 20 Vinnie Conlon 15.06; 21 Pat Conlon 15.23; 22 Mary Daly 16.03; 23 Fra Mollen 16.17; 24 Brendan Carroll 16.52; 25 Tony McCormack 17.08; 26 Georgina Tuohey 17.09; 27 Una Mullen 17.18; 28 Nicole Cuskelly(guest) 17.34; 29 Marcella Maloney 17.43; 30 Ger Kavanagh 17.55; 31 Martina Conlon 18.52; 32 Mary Walsh 19.13; 33 Jim Dolan 19.41; 34 John Cronin 28.31.

Fixtures:
30th November: Winter League-second leg at 10am in Charleville Estate
7th December; National novice Cross country championships; Ballyhaise Co. Cavan
11th December; Winter league- 3rd leg at 7pm
16th December; Grand National at 7pm. Presentation of prizes afterwards in Eugenes.
25th December; Goal Mile.
31st December; Round the Houses road race at 12 noon.

Training: Tuesday and Thursday at 6.30pm, Sunday morning at 8.30am (except on a Race day). New members always welcome. On these dark evenings, it is important that all members wear reflective clothing when running on the roads.

Memberships are now due and cost 35 euro for the year.