Clonmel Fun Run Race 5

Congrats to everyone again on another great event. We had 78 starters and it was a good night for running and that showed in the performances down through the field. The race format was that your best time in this year’s series was selected and then we randomly added or subtracted from one second up to 10 seconds to/off your time and that was your target time for the race. Apologises to everyone from the letter J down I left your target times at home on the printer. The winner last night was Billy Hahessy who finished 68th in 21 mins 33 secs, his exact target time, great running. Then we had David Hogan finishing 50th in 19 mins 2 secs, just two seconds inside his target time. We had a tie for 3rd place with Matt Alexander finishing 10th in 15 mins 334 secs, Brian McCluskey who was 36th in 17 mins 45 secs, Carol Neilson who was 43rd in 18 mins  30 secs and Anne Marie Looby who was 61st in 20 mins 8 secs, all finishing 3 seconds off their target time. In 7th place we had Marian O Neill who was 58th in 19 mins 46 secs, five seconds inside her target time.

Looking back on the first 5 races we had 178 athletes competing in this year’s series.  17 of them have competed in all 5 races, another 33 have competed in 4 races while we had 39 athletes who competed in 3 races and there are another 34 athletes who have done two races, brilliant participation. With just two more nights to go all these athletes are in with a chance of receiving awith a chance of receiving a specially designred mug for participating in at least four races. 

Below is a  picture of what this famous mug will look like.

Keep up the training as in March we will start the very popular Inter Firms Road League over 4 Miles for 4 Wednesday nights. Now is the time to be organising your teams for this great event, see poster attached and spread the word.

Niall O’Sullivan