Over the course of the Christmas holidays it’s been very much a case of “Clonliffe on Tour” with our athletes in action in as diverse locations as New York City, Clonmel and Athenry.
The roundup starts at the Armory in New York City on December 23 where Davey Davitt was in action at the North Shore Indoor Invitational winning the high school boys 600 in a time of 1:21.34 and also placing 2nd in the 300 in 35.14.
Also on the 23rd in Malahide Castle Grounds, the Malahide training group had their annual 3 mile Christmas race which was won by Ray Dunne.
St. Stephen’s day saw Ben Coughlan run a fine race to place 6th in the MSD Four Mile Road race in Clonmel in a time of 19.46.
Also on St Stephen’s Day in Galway the annual Fields of Athenry 10K took place with Cathal McHale running an excellent 33.02 to take 10th position, also in this race Garrett Loy ran 38.34 and Aisling Killilea ran 41.36, a 2 minute improvement on her time in this race last year and a new PB.
Wednesday the 27th in Navan, Fintan Keirns ran a 20 second 5k road PB while finishing 2nd in the Robbie & Rita 5k in 15.24. Fintan led the Clonliffe team of Sean Doran, 11th (16.39) and Stephen Harkness, 38th (18.43) to 3rd place.
Also the Fat Turkey 10k took place from Sutton to Howth and back today, as tough a race as 2 day old roast turkey, Aoife Kinehan recorded a time of 50.24, almost two and a half minutes faster than last year.
Finally on this morning Eugene Coppinger’s training group had their traditional Christmas mountain run with a well attended pack of 25 plus taking part.
