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Upcoming AAI events for your diaries….

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Thanks to Michael Herlihy for this….

Some of the upcoming fixtures that Cork AAI athletes will be competing in over the next 4 or 5 months;

Dec 2nd – Munster Juvenile “B” & Masters Cross Country Championships, Co. Clare
Dec 9th – AAI Novice and Uneven Ages XC Champs, Adamstown, Co. Wexford
Dec 9th – European Cross Country Championships – Budapest, Hungary

Dec 15th – Doneraile Park 5km
Dec 23rd – Duhallow 5km, Newmarket, Co. Cork 1pm
Jan 6th – Munster Senior, Junior and Masters Indoor Championships, Nenagh.
Jan 13th – Munster Juvenile Relays, Junior & Senior XC Champs, Limerick Racecourse.
Jan 19th – AAI Masters Indoor Championships – New Athlone Indoor Complex!
Jan 20th – AAI Junior & U/23 Indoor Championships – Athlone
Jan 24th – North Munster Schools Cross Country – Pallaskenry
Jan 25th – South Munster Schools Cross Country – Cork IT
Feb 3rd – AAI Development Cross Country – Gransha Park, Derry
Feb 3rd – AAI Intermediate and Masters Cross Country – Derry
Feb 9th/10th- AAI Senior Indoor Championships – Athlone IT
Feb 16th/17th – Munster Juvenile Under 9 to 13 Indoors – Nenagh
Feb 23rd/24th – Munster Juvenile Under 14 to 19 Indoors – Nenagh
Feb 24th – AAI Inter-Club Cross Country – Tullamore, Co. Offaly
March 5th – Munster Schools Indoor Championships – Nenagh
March 9th – Irish Schools XCountry – Jordanstown, N.Ireland
March 10th – Munster Senior and Novice 4 mile – TBC
March 23rd – Schools International XC – Wales
Mar 23rd/24th – All-Ireland Juvenile Indoors – Athlone
April 14th – AAI 10km Road Champs – Phoenix Park

Dublin Marathon 29th October, 2012

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Congrats to all who took part in the Dublin Marathon on Monday 29th October, 2012. On a fantastic day there were lots of top class performances with pb’s all over the place!

The Dublin Marathon is also the National Marathon Championship and according to the provisional results medals galore were won by the teams!
Individual Gold was won by Mary Sweeney in F50 while Cathal O Connell won individual silver in M45. Esther Murphy also won individual silver in F35 while Orla Crosbie won individual bronze in F45. In the team event our ladies team won Gold in F35+ and although there is an error in the team listing I think when it is corrected they will still be in the Gold medal position!
Congratulations to all who ran so well on the day!

County Novice Cross Country, Sunday 14th October, 2012

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The club had great results again in the County Novice Cross Country in Carrignavar yesterday as the Mens team was 2nd and the ladies team was 3rd!

Eoin O Keeffe brilliantly led the mens team home with a 7th place finish and was closely followed by Alex O Shea in 8th with Kevin Coleman, Oskar Djarv (3rd U23), Declan Murphy and Paul Downey all in the top 20. Congrats to all the men from the Barr’s who raced so well and who competed in huge numbers!
Michelle Nolan ran a fantastic race to finish 3rd in the ladies race and led our ladies team to an excellent 3rd place finish. Barbara Curran, Kathleen Kelly and Irene Eighan all scored for the team. Congrats to all who ran so well!!!

Cross Country Trials – Friday 5th October at 6pm

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There will be a trial race held on Friday 5th October, 2012 at the Farm in order to select teams for the upcoming Cross Country Championships. The trial race, which is for men and women will take place at 6.00pm so get there around 5.30pm in order to warm up. All eligible runners who want to run Cross Country can do so but there are maximum numbers allowed on each team so the trial race will assist in deciding who is on each team that is entered. There will be more than one team entered in each race. The dates of the upcoming races are as follows:
14th October – County Novice and U23 Championships in Carrignavar.
21st October – Munster Novice Championship in Beaufort, Killarney.
4th November – County Senior Championship.
11th November – Munster Intermediate Championship in a Waterford venue.
18th November – Cork County Intermediate and Masters Championships.
9th December – National Novice Championship in Adamstown, Co Wexford.

Charleville Half marathon Sunday 23rd September, 2012

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Well done to Cathal O Connell who was 1st M45 in 72.10 and Mary Sweeney who was 1st F50 in 86.19 in the Charleville Half Marathon on Sunday

Apparently due to an error the times are off by 12-15 seconds. Here are the results of the Barr’s runners that competed:

Pos Firstname Lastname Gender Category Firsthalf Secondhalf Chiptime Finish
13 Cathal O Connell M M45 00:36:06 00:36:06 01:12:10 01:12:11
96 Mary Sweeney F F50 00:43:04 00:43:16 01:26:19 01:26:20
101 geraldine o shea F F40 00:42:54 00:43:57 01:26:41 01:26:51
103 Fergal Sargent M MO 00:44:03 00:42:55 01:26:49 01:26:57
129 Dave O Regan M M45 00:45:01 00:43:59 01:28:53 01:29:00
150 Emma Murphy F FO 00:45:08 00:45:10 01:30:11 01:30:17
152 Gillian Cotter F F35 00:45:08 00:45:11 01:30:11 01:30:18
169 Ruairi O’Mahony M MO 00:45:20 00:46:57 01:32:11 01:32:17
192 Anne Wolfe F F40 00:47:31 00:46:48 01:34:10 01:34:19
221 Margo Dinan F F45 00:48:07 00:48:52 01:36:48 01:36:58
233 Ann Donnelly F F50 00:48:54 00:49:02 01:37:47 01:37:56
305 Kathleen Kelly F F35 00:50:11 00:53:22 01:43:16 01:43:33
378 Martin Farrell M MO 00:55:13 00:54:03 01:48:45 01:49:15
409 Mary Mulcahy F F50 00:55:51 00:54:54 01:50:07 01:50:45
441 Brian Murphy M M35 00:56:10 00:57:52 01:53:39 01:54:02
461 Austin Murphy M M60 01:00:39 00:55:34 01:55:31 01:56:12
477 John  Coleman M M40 00:55:36 01:02:09 01:57:13 01:57:45

Well done to all who ran!

St. Finbarr’s Half Marathon 9th September, 2012

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Congratulations to all who took part in today’s very successful Half Marathon in Blarney. In very warm conditions and into a headwind on the way back there were some great performances produced in a race completed by over 500 runners.

Emma Murphy won the ladies race with a brilliant performance, coming home in 1.22.08. In doing so Emma led the St. Finbarr’s ladies team to victory with Mary Sweeney (4th) completing the team. Geraldine O Shea was 5th. Esther Murphy and Niamh Cronin were 1st and 2nd F35, Col Conway and Anne Wolfe were 1st and 2nd F40, Orla Crosbie was 3rd F45 and Ann Donnelly was 1st F50.

In the mens race which was won by Michael Herlihy of North Cork AC with an excellent race in 1.10.44, John Meade led the St. Finbarr’s mens team to victory with a fine 4th place finish just a week after his Dingle Half Marathon victory. Cathal O Connell (1st M45) who was 5th and Michael Morgan who was 8th completed the team. Michael Murphy and Willie Hayes were 2nd and 3rd M55.

Well done to everyone who made the race such a success. That goes for participants but even more importantly to all who helped with the organisation on and off the course. The pacing, stewarding, water and post race refreshments were first rate and the timing chips worked very well so thanks and well done to all concerned. Thanks and well done also to Race Director Ken Devine who worked tirelessly to pull everything together and did a great job  in organising the race.

Final thanks to our sponsors John Buckley Sports who included a leaflet giving 20% discount for all participants in the goody bag. John is a great supporter of the club and indeed of athletics generally in Cork.

Full Results Here

Dingle Half Marathon 1st September

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Congratulations to John Meade and Gillian Cotter who made it a Barr’s double in the Dingle half marathon on Saturday.
John completed a hat-trick with his third successive Dingle half marathon victory in a time of 1:14:38 over the challenging course.
Gillian Cotter completed her biggest win to date in a time of 1:31:16.
Well done to all who took part in any of the Dingle races!