The Barr’s won Team Gold in both the Mens and Ladies races in this event. Two more great team performances. Well done everyone!

Congratulations to Barbara Curran who was third in the Cork county Novice B Cross Country in Carrignavar on Sunday. Rachael Crowley was 4th in the same race and the team packed well so could be in contention for a team medal.

In the men’s race Michael Houlihan was 5th and Kevin Coleman 6th. The team did well here too so when the results are published could be in line for honours.

Well done to all who ran so well.

Martina Kiely won the Munster Novice Cross Country Championship in horrendous conditions yesterday in County Clare. Martina was with the leaders for the first lap but pulled away early in the second lap and kept increasing her lead all the way to the finish to win well.

In the men’s race Cathal O Donovan led the team home, finishing 3rd overall himself. He was followed home by Paul Gallagher (who won county Gold with Clare!), Allen Whitaker and Denis Coughlan for a fantastic team win.

Well done to all who ran on another great day for the club!

Barr’s member James Curran currently living in Calgary, Canada won the Okanagan marathon on the 9th October, 2011 in a time of 2.44.54. James was third after 10k, at halfway and at the 30k mark where he was 47 seconds behind the leaders. He produced a brilliant last 12k however to win by 2 minutes 50 seconds. James ran a negative split with his second half faster by 2 minutes 36 seconds. Congrats James on a fantastic performance and a great achievement!

Cathal O Connell was 2nd and John Meade 3rd in this 15 mile race. Ken Devine was 2nd M45 and Willie Hayes was 2nd M55. In the ladies race Niamh Cronin was 1st F35, Anne Wolfe was 2nd F35, while Orla Crosbie was 1st F40 and Mary Sweeney was 1st F50. Well done everyone!

The Barr’s had a hugely successful Cork County Cross Country Championships today in Conna. The men’s and women’s teams won the Novice race while the mens Over 50 team were also successful in their Masters event with Michael Murphy, who was first M50 leading them home. The mens over 40 team were 2nd.

Allen Whitaker led home the mens team finishing 6th and the team packed well with Michael Morgan 9th, Paul Gallagher 13th and Denis Coughlan 16th for a fantastic team performance and a great win! Cathal O Connell was 7th overall and first M45, Ken Devine was second M45, while Willie Hayes was third M55 to go with his M50 team Gold.

So a great day and here are the provisional results for all the Barr’s mens runners. Well done everyone!

Place Time Name                                                            Category
6 0:20:59 WHITAKER, Allen St. Finbarrs AC (Novice) M 602 6
7 0:21:03 O’CONNELL, Cathal St. Finbarrs AC M45 433 7
9 0:21:39 MORGAN, Michael St. Finbarrs AC (Novice) M 603 9
13 0:21:53 GALLAGHER, Paul St. Finbarrs AC (Novice) M 601 13
16 0:22:06 COUGHLAN, Denis St. Finbarrs AC (Novice) M 606 16
19 0:22:12 DEVINE, Ken St. Finbarrs AC (Novice) M45 422 19
22 0:22:16 HOULIHAN, Michael St. Finbarrs AC (Novice) M 610 22
27 0:22:23 PATTERSON, Robert St. Finbarrs AC (Novice) M 607 27
28 0:22:26 O’GORMAN, Aidan St. Finbarrs AC (Novice) M 426 28
35 0:22:57 O’KEEFFE, Eoin St. Finbarrs AC (Novice) M 604 35
42 0:23:27 O’SULLIVAN, John St. Finbarrs AC (Novice) M 428 42
45 0:23:50 MURPHY, Michael St. Finbarrs AC M50 435 45
47 0:23:54 CRONIN, Gerard St. Finbarrs AC (Novice) M40 429 47
57 0:24:28 HAYES, Willie St. Finbarrs AC M55 439 57
63 0:24:45 O’REGAN, Dave St. Finbarrs AC (Novice) M40 427 63
64 0:24:55 CONDON, Colin St. Finbarrs AC (Novice) M 424 64
67 0:25:03 CREEDON, Neil St. Finbarrs AC M50 436 67
96 0:27:53 CARROLL, Chris St. Finbarrs AC M55 438 96

Our ladies team put in fantastic individual and team performances today in Conna to win the team Gold in the Novice County Cross Country Championships. Martina Kiely led the team home winning the overall race comfortably with a very strong run. The race was combined with the County Masters and U23 races and Karina Teahan was third overall and Valerie Vaughan fourth. Louise Keane finished very well to come 7th overall which made it a 1, 2, 3, 4 for the Barr’s in the Novice race! A fantastic team performance! Mary Sweeney followed Louise in with a very strong finish to be first F50. Mary Murphy was second F50 and Marion Lyons was first F55. Well done to all who ran so well on a warm day and on a challenging course which was a good test for all participants. Here are the provisional womens results:

Place    Time    Name                                           Team                                  Race Age Category                                

      1   0:10:59  KIELY, Martina                                St. Finbarrs AC (Novice)          F                                           441        1

      3   0:11:30  TEAHAN, Karina                              St. Finbarrs AC (Novice)          F                                           448        3

      4   0:11:43  VAUGHAN, Valerie                          St. Finbarrs AC (Novice)          F                                           444        4

      7   0:11:54  KEANE, Louise                               St. Finbarrs AC (Novice)          F                                           442        7

      8   0:12:07  SWEENEY, Mary                              St. Finbarrs AC                      F50                                        462        8

     18   0:12:42  CROSBIE, Orla                                St. Finbarrs AC                      F40                                        457      18

     23   0:12:53  COTTER, Gillian                              St. Finbarrs AC (Novice)          F                                           451      23

     27   0:13:09  DINAN, Margo                               St. Finbarrs AC                      F40                                        458      27

     35   0:13:24  CURRAN, Barbara                           St. Finbarrs AC (Novice)          F                                           446      35

     44   0:14:20  BUCKLEY, Eileen                             St. Finbarrs AC                      F45                                        460      44

     50   0:14:31  MURPHY, Mary                               St. Finbarrs AC                      F50                                        465      50

     59   0:15:54  LYONS, Marion                               St. Finbarrs AC                      F55                                        466      59

     60   0:16:00  MEHIGAN, Cait                               St. Finbarrs AC (Novice)          F                                           447      60

Congrats to Emma Murphy who was 3rd in the Charleville Half Marathon last sunday in 84.50. Geraldine O Shea was 5th in the same race in 86.55. In the mens race Michael Houlihan who has been running very well all summer set another pb finishing 19th in 80.26. Well done to all who ran.

Congrats to Rachael O Callaghan who won the ladies race in the North Mon 5k last week! Also congrats to Barbara Curran who was 3rd in the same race. In the mens race Paul Duggan and Michael Dunne were 5th and 6th respectively.

Cathal O Connell was 2nd in this race in a time of 16.15 as he used it as a good warm up for yesterday’s National Half Marathon Championship. In the age categories Ken Devine won M45 and Michael Murphy won M50.

In the ladies Martina Kiely kept her fantastic recent form going with a win in 17.43 while Anne Wolfe and Kathleen Kelly were 1st and 2nd respectively in F35 and Orla Crosbie won F40.

So, a very successful evening all round and well done to all who ran.

There were some great performances again in the last of the Ballycotton Summer Series races. The upshot of it all was that in the overall series John Meade finished 2nd which was a fantastic achievement. Also making the top 50 men were Paul Duggan in 6th, Michael Houlihan 7th, Patrick O Rahilly 21st and Stephen Geoghegan 33rd. In the ladies overall Kathleen Kelly was in the top 20 finishing 13th. Fantastic performances all round and well done to everyone who completed all four races. Here are the results from the Ballycotton race.

Ballycotton Summer Road Race Series 2011
35th BALLYCOTTON ‘5’
Thursday 25 August 2011. 7:30pm

Finishers in the St. Finbarrs AC team. Pace Race Race
Place Time Name Team Race Age Category min/mile No Place
1 0:27:23 MEADE, John St. Finbarrs AC M 05:28.5 2 6
2 0:28:27 GALLAGHER, Paul St. Finbarrs AC M 05:41.3 928 12
3 0:28:50 LYONS, Dennis St. Finbarrs AC M 05:45.9 366 17
4 0:29:01 DUGGAN, Paul St. Finbarrs AC M40 05:48.1 7 21
5 0:29:12 DEVINE, Ken St. Finbarrs AC M45 05:50.3 474 25
6 0:29:29 HOULIHAN, Michael St. Finbarrs AC M 05:53.7 5 31
7 0:29:37 DUNNE, Michael St. Finbarrs AC M 05:55.3 475 34
8 0:29:46 RAHILLY, Patrick St. Finbarrs AC M 05:57.1 21 39
9 0:30:19 PATTERSON, Robert St. Finbarrs AC M 06:03.7 936 50
10 0:30:21 O’HERLIHY, Niall St. Finbarrs AC M 06:04.1 325 52
11 0:30:52 O’REILLY, Brendan St. Finbarrs AC M 06:10.3 397 67
12 0:30:55 GEOGHEGAN, Stephen St. Finbarrs AC M 06:10.9 34 69
13 0:31:19 SARGENT, Fergal St. Finbarrs AC M 06:15.7 56 80
14 0:32:17 O’TOOLE, Paul St. Finbarrs AC M45 06:27.3 329 105
15 0:32:18 HAYES, Willie St. Finbarrs AC M55 06:27.5 929 106
16 0:34:08 WOULFE, Anne St. Finbarrs AC F35 06:49.5 440 162
17 0:34:11 KENNEDY, Dan St. Finbarrs AC M55 06:50.1 405 163
18 0:35:14 O’NEILL, Trevor St. Finbarrs AC M 07:02.6 93 202
19 0:35:25 KELLY, Kathleen St. Finbarrs AC F35 07:04.8 215 210
20 0:35:58 COTTER, Gillian St. Finbarrs AC F35 07:11.4 439 236
21 0:36:15 O’MULLAIN, Micheal St. Finbarrs AC M 07:14.8 294 245
22 0:36:45 CARROLL, Chris St. Finbarrs AC M55 07:20.8 454 262
23 0:36:46 EIGHAN, Irene St. Finbarrs AC F 07:21.0 290 265
24 0:36:55 COLEMAN, Barry St. Finbarrs AC M 07:22.8 420 271
25 0:39:54 CURRAN, Barbara St. Finbarrs AC F 07:58.6 242 365
26 0:41:13 STAVROU, Amanda St. Finbarrs AC F50 08:14.4 993 389
27 0:42:18 MULCAHY, Mary St. Finbarrs AC F45 08:27.4 237 406
28 0:42:35 GRIFFIN, Hazel St. Finbarrs AC F 08:30.8 248 411
29 0:42:54 CREEDON, Hilary St. Finbarrs AC F 08:34.6 238 415
30 0:43:07 MANNING, Denis St. Finbarrs AC M40 08:37.2 181 418
31 0:43:34 WALSH, Anne St. Finbarrs AC F45 08:42.6 254 429
There were 31 finishers in the St. Finbarrs AC team.