First cross county event of 2015/16 season was the Kerry Juveniles Even ages, U23 and Novice competition in Killarney on a very solid and dry surface, well suited for fast runners.
Competition started with Women's Novice and U23 category for 3 laps of Demesne field. For the first time in a good few years we had women in "Novice" category - Ursula Barrett and Kirstie Nowak representing St. Brendan's AC. This is a 200% increase from previous year.
After this race it was time for Kerry juveniles to shine with Girls U10 and Boys U10 at the starting line. Big numbers of athletes took part in both of these races and in Girls U10 our club was represented by Lilly Nowak, who had a good race finishing in top half of field of over 30 girls.
In Boys U10 race it was a bigger field of around 40 juveniles and St.Brendan's AC had a trio of first timers in cross country racing - Shane O'Connor, Stuart Daley and Aaron Horgan. All three boys had a solid race, considering we only had 3 training sessions until that point and all 3 placing in top 20 with Aaron narrowly missing a top 6 medal position.
Next for St.Brendan's AC on the starting line was Daisy Nowak in Girls U12 category with another middle of the field finish in this fast race.
Our last juvenile club member was Eimear O'Sullivan running in U14 category (a year out of age). She ran a very controlled race on the first 2 laps and picked up a pace on the last one to finish strongly.
We did not have participants in U16 or U18 categories so the next race to feature St.Brendan's AC was the Men's Novice race. It was 6 laps of the course together with U18 Boys and U23 Categories.
We had James Daley, making his debut in cross country and Artur Nowak on the starting line.
It was all smiles before the race!
Not so much after .....
Great day in Killarney, with excellent weather and solid running track.
Well done to our club athletes for making an effort and taking part in this competition and all the parents who travelled to Killarney and cheered on all our runners.
Few photos from the day on our FB page HERE.
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