East Cork XC Championship 2014
Author Archive: St Catherines AC
Summer News
Conna 5k
St. Catherine’s AC held their second 5k road race in wonderful weather conditions onThursday 31st July. A total of 227 runners took part in a very well organised event which involved running through the village, past the sports field and commencing a tough challenging 2nd mile. Monty’s Pass and his four legged stable companions have found this stretch a challenge! The final 1.5km is mostly downhill, flat and fast. Congratulations to Tim O’Connor (Riocht AC), Con Marshall (St. Finbarr’s AC) and Frank Hayes (East Cork AC) the first three men home respectively. In the ladies category congratulations goes to Ann-Marie Holland (St. Finbarr’s AC), Evelyn Caphman (Youghal AC) and Clotilde Fitzgibbon (Grange-Fermoy AC), 1st, 2nd and 3rd respectively.
In studying the field of runners taking part it was noted that many were running in their first road race, so let’s hope it has given people an appetite to continue, most 5K road races would not be quiet as tough as the Conna 5K. Many runners improved their times from last year, some by as much as 4 minutes which is a fantastic personal achievement.
Thank you to all who took part, helped in any way, supported and sponsored the 5K.
Mary Lee been presented as prize winner in her category by Pat Lee (Community Council)
Congratulations to Meghan
Congratulations to Meghan Carr, our only athlete to take part in the recent National Juvenile Athletics Championships in Tullamore. Meghan took part in a very competitive U12s Long Jump competition where the winning jump was 4.43m and the following 7 girls were within 46 cm. Despite jumping close to her personal best, Meghan was a little outside a medal position. Well done Meghan for representing the club so well!
Meghan Carr in the long jump
Athletics Training Resumes
Training resumes in September
- Juvenile training is back on Mondays and Thursdays at 7pm
- Adult Training on Tuesday 7pm (starting with the monthly 3k – First Tuesday every month. Interval training every other Tuesday)
- Fit for life resumes on Wednesday at 7pm
- Little Athletics starts on the 8th September
- The club also meet every Saturday at 10am at the woods beside Leahy’s Open Farm (outside Ballynoe) for a easy jog
All are welcome
Well done Catherine, Kathleen and John
We would like to say a special congratulations to club athletes Catherine Clancy (2nd Female), Kathleen O’Brien (1st Female O60) and John Beecher (2nd Male) in the overall results at the end of the Streets of Fermoy road race series 2014 last night.
Kathleen has been a welcome addition to the club with some great results since joining. Catherine has been going from strength to strength with PBs and prizes in a number of races in 2014. While John has produced super times across multiple disciplines ranging from 3k, 5k, 5 & 10 miles but most notably The Cork City Marathon (30th Place – 2:56:59) and the Connemara Ultra Marathon (23rd Place – 5:13:19). Well done all.
- Alan Carr, Batt Sheehan, John Beecher, Catherine Clancy, Kathleen O’Brien
STREETS OF FERMOY ‘5K’ OVERALL RESULTS
Male…1st Jamie Buckley Carrignabhfear AC, 2nd John Beecher St. Catherine’s AC, 2rd John Murphy Grange Fermoy AC
Male O/40…1st Brian O’Connor Grange Fermoy AC, 2nd Brendan O’Mahony Grange Fermoy AC, 3rd Darren Flynn Grange Fermoy AC
Male O/50…1st Sean Freeman Grange Fermoy AC, 2nd Batt Kearney Leevale AC, 3rd Kerry Constant Unattached/Cork
Male O/60…1st Maurice Tobin Grange Fermoy AC
Male Junior…1st Declan Mehigan Mallow AC
Female…1st Caroline Buckley Watergrasshill AC, 2nd Catherine Clancy St. Catherine’s AC, 3rd Linda Murphy Grange Fermoy AC
Female O/40…1st Mary Claire Healy Grange Fermoy AC, 2nd Angela O’Mahony Unattached/Castlelyons, 3rd Mariska Smit Unattached/Rathcormac
Female O/50…1st Judy Baker Unattached/Fermoy
Female O/60…1st Kathleen O’Brien St. Catherine AC, 2nd Maggie Dunne Grange Fermoy AC
