Terry Mc Connon

On the racing front Ruth Fitzgerald won the Waterford Half Marathon in an excellent time of 1:19.58 We had a number competing at the Jingle Bells 5k Saturday morning. First home was Paul Fleming in 16.02 ( 2nd O/40) followed by John McAuley (16.38) with Peter Barry next (17.28 ) Mark O’Connor (11th O/40 – […]

A hectic week this week. Beginning on Thursday , I attend the Athletics Ireland awards where I accepted the Ultra Athlete of the year award on behalf of Caitriona Jennings which is well deserved considering her achievements this year. We then held our own awards on Friday evening in The Pavillion Bar in Trinity and a great […]

For all those attending the Annual Awards Night this Friday (29th November), we will be kicking off at 6.00pm in the Pavilion Bar , Trinity College. If you want to attend and haven’t let me know yet, that would be great. Just send me on an email confirming  same. On the racing front  there was the […]

If you thought that there might be a lull in proceedings after the Dublin Marathon then we were wrong. You guys continue to produce the results over varied terrains in a number of different countries. First on the agenda was the World Mountain Running Championships which were held in Patagonia , Argentina. Ian Conroy was […]

Post marathon , there is only a few results to report but still excellent results nonetheless. We actually  have a couple of results from the Dublin Marathon which I missed with the initial report. We had two more sub 3 performances with Mark Yeates running  2.56:37 and Matthew Blyth also breaking the 3 hour mark […]

What a truly remarkable day yesterday was. We had record numbers competing, record number of PB’s and record number of sub 3 hour runs at the Dublin Marathon. As far as I can make out we had 48 running and each and every one ran a great race.  Our first home was Brendan Murphy in a […]

Today was the Autumn Cross Country in Abbotstown which incorporated  the trial for the Home Countries International Masters Cross Country and to keep up with previous years we had a couple of guys making their respective teams. Tom Lupton is our first representative after he finished 4th in the O/35 category and Brian Geraghty had […]

We had another victory over the weekend with Tom Lupton winning the Rosemount 10k in a time of 34.23. Down In Tinryland Paul Fleming was 10th overall ( 1st O/40) in the 4 miler in a time of 21.35 with Ilona McElroy 2nd Female in 25.25. Yesterday was the Donadea 10k with Ronan Kearns 7th […]

hat a few days we have had with many magnificent performances coming from the group. It all began on a very wet and windy night in Sandyford with their 5k. Malika Hamanni  who has been with the group for the last couple of years achieved the distinction of winning her first ever race by being […]

Four races with two half marathons giving copious amounts of pb’s and podium finishes in the other two races to report on.Today we had the Charleville International Half Marathon with the guys performing some remarkable results. Michael Mc Mahon was our first home in 10th place overall in a time of 69.32 (PB) Michael was […]

Big number from the group at the Grant Thornton 5k on Wednesday night. Brendan Murphy made the podium with a 3rd place finish ( 15.49 ) followed by Conor McCarthy (17:05) Terry Brady (17:07) James Kelly (17:19) Seamus Ruddy (17:47) Jerome Kennedy (17:50) David Tonge (17:51) Tim Murray (17:58) Fergal Roche (18:00) John Clohisey (18:06) […]

Following on from her magnificent 3rd place at the prestigeous Comrades Ultra in South Africa a couple of months ago, Caitriona Jennings finished in a very impressive 7th place at the World 50k championships which were held in Romania today. Caitriona also knocked almost 5 minutes off her own Irish record to finish in a time […]