September 2015 Road Races updates

September was another busy month for St.Brendan's AC members with some of our athletes travelling to such exotic places as Cork & Kildare.

19.09.2015 - Parkrun Tralee no.34
Zach Walshe (1st in age category). Congratulations to Zach on completing his 10th Parkrun Tralee! 
Full results HERE.

19.09.2015 - Killarney Women's Mini Marathon
The promise of ice cream, doughnuts and brownies at the finish line tempted a good few of our club ladies for this well organised and supported event in Killarney. Due to floods in some parts of Killarney National Park, the route was altered with 5K loop for shorter distance and 2 loops (5K each) for 10K.
10K - Cathy Quilter, Margaret Carlin, Yvonne Quill, Catherine Burke, Kirstie Nowak, Ann McGlynn, Norma O'Dowd, Nora Falvey
5K - Shannon Quill (4th overall), Mags Hussey, Ella Brosnan & Brendan O'Sullivan.

Gallery of photos HERE.
Results of 5K HERE and 10K HERE.

20.09.2015 - Charleville Half Marathon (Munster Athletics Championships)
Very difficult weather conditions for this event did not stop St.Brendan's AC trio of Derek, Cathy and Margaret with some impressive results as all our athletes achieved new PB's.
Looks like marathon training is going according to plan - Cathy and Margaret will take part in SSE Airtricity Dublin Marathon (AAI National Marathon Championships) in October and Derek will be one of over 50000 participants to run in the TCS New York City Marathon in November.  
Derek Griffin - 15th overall and 4th in Munster Championships with new club record (1:13:11)
Margaret Carlin - 2nd in age category & new PB
Cathy Quilter - new PB

Full results HERE.

26.09.2015 - Killarney 10 Mile
This was the second year of this event organised as a fundraiser to build 200m micro track in Killarney. With lots of other events happening in Kerry over that weekend it was still a well supported event with many club runners from Kerry, Cork & Limerick taking part.
Thanks to Killarney Valley AC (formally Spa Muckross AC) for hosting this event and all volunteers who helped out on the day. 
St.Brendan's AC had Kirstie Nowak, Ann McGlynn & Artur Nowak (90min pacer) taking part.

Full results HERE.

26.09.2015 - Parkrun Tralee no.35
Zach Walshe (1st in age category), Yvonne Quill (2nd female overall & 1st in age category) & Pat Sheehy (pacer).
Well done to Yvonne on steady progress and finishing as a second female overall. 
Full results HERE.

26.09.2015 - Toughathlon (Cork)
Well done to Brian Lucid on completing yet another multi-obstacle event. Once again Brian took on and finished in style Toughathlon in Cork.

26.09.2015 - Seven Frogs Triathlon, Castlegregory
End of season event in Maharees got great weather conditions for this charity triathlon event. Congratulation to Dermot Dillane on finishing in top 20 in sprint category.

Full Results HERE

27.09.2015 - Naas 10K
David Butler moved his training base camp closer to Dublin for the weekend in the hope that this will give him "the edge" when he will enter final stage of his Dublin marathon training. We have no doubt that his first effort in the Dublin marathon will leave him breathless (at some stage).
Fortunately for him, he came with his wife, Irene to this 10K event in Naas to monitor his progress.
David Butler & Irene Butler.

Full results HERE.

27.09.2015 - Cork Women's Mini Marathon
2 Mini Marathons in 2 weeks for these ladies - it was Cork's turn to play host to the blue colours of St.Brendan's AC.
Norma O'Dowd & Mags Hussey

27.09.2015 - Tralee CBS 5K/3K
In its first fundraising event for Tralee CBS School we had a mixture of youth and experience representing St.Brendan's AC. Well done to Shannon Quill, Yvonne Quill, Moira Lynch Horgan, Aaron (2nd in 3K) & Kevin Horgan.

Killarney 10Mile Road Race 2015

Killarney 10Mile Road Race coming up on Saturday, 26 September 2015.
Map and details of the course in our post from 2014 HERE.
Early bird entry only €20 incl. tech t-shirt and medal for all finishers.
Details on www.killarney10mile.com

Killarney 10Mile Road Race

"New Athletics Micro Track in the grounds of St.Brendan's Collage in Killarney" - this is the main idea behind this new running event in Killarney. Local athletic club Spa Mucross AC and neighbouring Gneeveguilla AC & Kenmare AC have joined forces with St.Brendan's Collage to build 200m athletic track to serve the larger south Kerry area as the alternative to the only full size track in the county.

The race itself was flawless as you can expect from the athletic clubs involved and the crew from behind events such as Lakes of Killarney Marathon & Hardman Triathlon.

The start was located on Port Road, a bit congested at the beginning but with almost 300 runners this was predictable. By the first corner field was spread out with runners settling to their paces.It's not often that one gets a chance to run/walk down the middle of Killarney's main streets during rush hour on a Saturday - with the only car horns being beeped to show support to participants. 

Apart from some elevation on the approach to Aghadoe & a small bit later in the park, the route was reasonably flat with spectacular views of lake and later nice scenery and pleasant running in the park.

Nice touch was to finish with a loop of college yard where hopefully soon the new track will be in place.

Top 3 Men:

1. Michael HERLIHY 53:08 

2. Phillip HARTY      53:39 

3. Tim OCONNOR    54:48 

Top 3 Women:

1. Lucy BRENNAN    1:07:12 

2. Denise CASEY     1:12:19 

3. Alison KIRWAN   1:12:54

After taking part in Killarney Women's Mini Marathon the previous weekend, 3 of our club's female members were back again at the starting line, with Mags Hussey making her debut at the 10 mile distance. Well done ladies on taking this challenge and collecting another lovely medal for ever growing collections.

St.Brendan's AC results:

  40. Artur Nowak   1:12:38 

  91. Ann McGlynn  1:21:30

116. Pat Sheehy     1:25:51

186. Kirstie Nowak 1:37:49

187. Mags Hussey  1:37:49

Full results HERE.

Gallery of photos HERE.