Monthly Archives: October 2022

Dundalk was the venue for this year's even age juvenile, junior and novice cross country championships. All looked well at the start but as the mild rain turned to torrents and the grass disappeared everything and everyone turned brown with mud - a virtual mud bath! no just mud field. that beinf said it was the same for all but in fairness it was the later races that were "worst" affected.  KCH athletes were prominent winning 14 county medals. Under 12 girls Amelia O'Brien 15, Emma Kelly 23 and Hannah Ryan 40 won bronze medal with the county team and [...]

Once again the weather was excellent for our annual primary schools cross-country held in the Castle Park. And once again St Canice's were out in numbers and also very competitive winning all three shields - Best Girls school, Best Boys school and best overall. Many thanks to organiser ConorMcGabhann and also score co-ordinator May Hutt and the team of volunteers. 

Alex Cullen and Adam Slawinska competed in the Leinster Schools Indoor combined events in the Arena in Dublin today. Alex qualified for the All-Ireland with third place. Adam placed10th. Well done boys.

A lot of running by club members this weekend - some at home - some further afield. First up is a fab run by Claire Dermody who ran the marathon in Chicago in 3.08.12 - a fine time indeed.  Then it was the turn of the "students" in the states. On Friday Shay McEvoy placed 14th in the Nuttycombe Wisconsin Invitational. Running for Tulsa University he covered the 8K cross country race in 23.26. Then on Saturday Peter Lynch ran in the Weis-Crockett Invitational in Stillwater, Oklahoma. The distance was 8K and in a large field Peter placed third in [...]

And so we moved from a "summer's day" in Ballycurran to what some would say a real cross-country day in Castlecomer. The rain was heavy and the wind was strong but no muck until the cars started moving for home. Our juveniles made little of the weather - perhaps the club tent helped. Grace Healy and Kimberly Walsh were medal winners in girls under 7 and Lucy Maher having been third in U8 now claimed 4th in U9. Boys U9 had Daniel McIntyre 2nd, James Healy 5th, Cillian Maher 6th and Conor Quinn 8th. Moving to the championship races our [...]

A real summer day greeted us in Ballycurran today. The St Joseph's club  were well prepared with car parking , shop and course. KCH had a good first day out with six teams bringing homemedals in the juvenile ranks and four sets in the senior. Scoring juvenile teams  were Boys and girls under 10 - both winning gold; boys and girls under 12 - both won silver; Girls under 14 were 4th and the boys had Kyrell Mtinsi taking individual gold; girls U16 and boys under 18 also won team gold. Further individual gold medalswere won by Julia Daly U10, [...]

Cross-country time for colleges in the US andour two Tulsa boys havebeen inaction. Shay McEvoy ran the8K cowboy Jamboree and placed 22ndin 23.47. On thefollowing Friday it was Peter Lynch who wasin action in the 8K in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Peter finished 4th in 23.37.