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for Danny Smith and Madeline Loughnane The County 10 Mile road
championships took place in Clonmel in very warm conditions. Right from the
start the Thurles Crokes duo of Christopher Bracken and Shane Mullaney were joined by Danny Smith of Ballynonty. Over the
first 2 miles this trio set the pace and then as they approached Barne, Danny Smith went into the lead and he opened a
slight lead at three miles which he reached in 17 misn
50 secs with Shane 2 seconds adrift. On the downward
run to the 4 mile mark Danny piled on the pressure, reaching 4 miles in 23 mins 23 secs with Shane 5 seconds
adrift. Danny continued this strong tempo reaching 7 miles in 40 mins 9 secs with Shane now 32
seconds adrift and Christopher still in Bronze medal position. On the homeward
run along the Wood road Danny kept the pace going despite the very warm
conditions to win a great race in 57 mins 13 secs. This was a great performance by Danny who has been 2nd
in this race for the past two years. Then we had Shane Mullaney
running very well over the final three miles to finish 2nd in 57 mins 23 secs with Christopher
Bracken winning the Bronze medal in 59 mins 11 secs. For the record John Shanahan of Dundrum
was 4th in 59 mins 42 secs.
5th David Kenneally of Thurles Crokes in
60 mins 49 secs, 6th
James Ryan of Dundrum 61 misn
12 secs, 7th Tony Fogarty of Thurles
Crokes in 61 mins 24 secs,
8th Donal Keane of Dundrum
61 mins 30 secs, 9th
Dermot Logue of Coolquill 62 mins
44 secs, 10th
Ruaidhri Devitt of Dundrum 63 mins 2 secs. For the record, the course record for this race,
under In the team event Thurles
Crokes were very convincing winners with their four athletes (2nd, 3rd,
5th and 7th) in the top 7 and they won the title on 17
points. The Dundrum team (4th, 6th,
8th and 10th) won the Silver medals on 28 points. The
Carrick on Suir team (Tommy Falconer 13th
65 mins 11 secs, Anthony
Grace 15th 65 mins 43 secs,
Eddie Wells 17th 67 mins 4 secs and James Fox 18th 68 mins
57 secs) won the Bronze medals. The Ballynonty team
of Danny, Neillie Hall 20th 69 mins 31 secs, Jimmy Butler 70 mins 18 secs, Noel O Dwyer 28th 72 mins
26 secs were 4th, the Clonmel team of
Larry Martin 12th 64 mins 51 secs, Tommy Cahill 16th 66 mins
23 secs, Tom Quinn 34th 75 mins 34 secs and Ned O Brien 35th in 76 mins
12 secs were 5th while the Coolquill team of Dermot Logue 10th, Tadhg Vaughan 24th 70 mins
11 secs, Leslie Smyth 27th 71 mins 57 secs and David Quigley 40th
in 85 mins 14 secs were 6th.
The Dundrum 2nd team of Gerry Ralph 19th
69 mins 5 secs, P J Holmes
21st 69 mins 43 secs
and Michael Ryan 23rd 70 mins won the Gold
medals in the B Section. In the Ladies race we also had
some great racing. Madeline Loughnane of Thurles
Crokes showed that her good form over the longer distances is gaining momentum
as she once again ran very well to win this title in 63 mins
29 secs, great racing and I have no doubt on this
form will run well in the upcoming half marathons. Looking back over the record
of results since the Athletic Association was formed in 2000,
this performance by Madeline establishes a new course and distance record for
the Ladies beating the previous record of 67 mins 13 secs set by Pamela Lynch of Clonmel in 2006. Then we had
Angela McCann of Clonmel running a great race to win the Silver medal in 65 mins 33 secs. Also beating the
old course record, with Laura Taylor of
Clonmel making a very welcome return to racing a winning one when capturing the
Bronze medal in 71 mins 35 secs,
great running. For the record Aine Roche of Clonmel
was 4th in 72 mins 59 secs,
Denise Compton of Dundrum was 5th in 73 mins 20 secs with Mary Molloy of
Carrick on Suir was 6th in 73 mins 45 secs, great running. In
the team event the Clonmel trio of Angela, Laura and Aine
captured the Gold medals while their team mates, Donna Nagle 81 mins 42 secs, , Miriam O Gorman
84 misn 6 secs and Elaine O Brien
86 mins 13 secs captured
the Bronze medals. The |