The Tony O’Connell 4 mile road race takes place once again this year on St Stephen’s day to honour one of Clonmel A C’s finest athletes. This race has grown in stature and is now firmly fixed on everyone calendar over the festive season. This race over a good course caters for all levels of abilities and all ages. Read the rest of this entry »
The Clonmel Athletic Club Winter Series of Races continued last week with the 7th race of the Series. Once again the weather was ideal. The race format was a Handicap race based on each athlete’s best time for the distance. Each athlete was given a starting time based on their best time to date. The slowest person started the race at scratch and then all the other athletes went off at their handicap time. If every athlete ran to their best time then all the athletes should cross the finishing line together. Read the rest of this entry »
The Club traveled to the Curragh Camp last Sunday for the All Ireland Even Age groups Cross Country Championships. In the first race of the day we were very well represented, despite not having Roisin Cleary in the line up due to the flu. Despite this set back our athletes performed very well. Read the rest of this entry »
The 6th race of the Clonmel Athletic Club 4k road series took place last Wednesday night and once again the weather was very favourable. The race format was a two person relay team. Each team was given a handicap and with 26 teams competing we had some great racing. The teams were put into 4 groups with each group given a different starting time. In all only 100 seconds separated all the teams at the finish. Indeed the handicapper done well considering that there were seven new entrants competing. Each athlete had to do one lap over the 2k course. Read the rest of this entry »
The Club traveled to the County A Cross Country Championships last Sunday which were held in the Thurles Crokes complex. In the Girls Under 10 our athletes were running only their 2nd race for the Club. Jessica McNamara ran very well when finishing 21st, then we had Kayleigh O Brien performed very well when finishing 30th with Fionnuala Sheehan was 30th. In the Boys under 10 Conor McGeever ran a great race when finishing a close 4th. Then we had Colm McCarthy running a fine race in 28th place. Then we had another relative newcomer Rian Quigley running a fine race to finish 32nd. In the Girls under 12 Rachel Maher underlined her good form of late when running very well to finish 5th and like Conor McGeever won an Individual top 10 medal, brilliant running. In this race we also had Josephine O Connor running very well to finish 20th in what was a competitive race. In the final Girls race of the day we left the top performance finish the day on a high note for the Club. In the Girls under 16 race we had Veronica Horgan representing the Club. In the race she quickly went into the lead shortly after the start and set a strong tempo, which proved a winning one, as she went on to win convincingly.
The Club held a very successful draw last week in Moynihan’s. Our Chairman, Albert Doyle thanked the people of Clonmel and surrounding areas for such a great response to our raffle and it is great to have such support which is always appreciated. He also thanked all our members for the great effort they put into raising money which will be used in the upgrading of our Long Jump facilities at the Cashel Road Complex. The winners were 200 Euros – Carmel Kavanagh, Silversprings road, Clonmel and the ticket was sold by Colm McCarthy. 2nd prize – 100 Euros was won by Gillian Quinn and the ticket was sold by Reece Maher. 3rd Prize – 50 Euros was won by John McCormack and the ticket was sold by Edward Roche. The 4th prize, 50 Euros, was won by Louise Bermingham and the ticket was sold by Saoirse McGeever. The 5th prize, bottle of Brandy was won by Alan Gallagher who was also the ticket seller. The 6th prize, bottle of whiskey was won by Alex Pedra c/o Flancare and was sold by Michael Brannigan. The 8th prize was won by Patsy O Connor and the seller was Orla Moynihan. Paddy McCarthy won the 8th prize and the ticket seller was Reece Maher. The 9th prize was won by Nora Barron and the ticket was sold by Mary Doyle.
Carrignavar Co Cork was the venue for the Munster Uneven Cross Country Championships and the Club was very well represented. In the Girls under 11 race we had two very good performances from Lorraine Doyle and Saoirse McGeever when they finished 18th and 21st respectively, both just missing out on scoring on the County team that won Gold. In the Boys equivalent we had Damon Gregory and Patrick Cleary running very well when finishing 42nd and 43rd respectively. Read the rest of this entry »
In recent weeks it is great to see many of the Club Coaches attending a number of Coaching Courses and Development Days. Indeed well done to the South Tipperary Sports Partnership which was recently formed for putting on two very good courses in recent weeks. The courses were the Child Protection course and the Jim Kilty course on Speed, Agility and Quickness Foundation course.
Emma, Damien and Miriam – top team
The 5th race of the Clonmel Athletic Club winter series of races took place aging in very good conditions and as such we ere once again treated to a great race. The format was a combined team event where every athlete was put on a team, a team of three with w target time to beat. Anyone who got inside their target time, the difference was scored in minus seconds while any athletes that finished outside their target time, the difference were given in plus seconds. Read the rest of this entry »
Martin comes out on top in the “Target race”
The 4th race of the Clonmel Athletic Club Winter Series of races took place last Wednesday night in ideal conditions. The format used was that each athlete was given a Target time based on their best time to date but altered slightly up or down by ten seconds. The athletes then ran the race with their watches and upon finishing the race their Target times were revealed to them and they could check to see how close they got to their target time. Read the rest of this entry »