Our ladies did us proud at the national cross country in Santry today. Our four squad U18/Junior team of Maebhdh Richardson, Isabella Burke, Alexia Albertin Molinera and Eleanor Godden -junior positions 14, 37, 39 and 84 respectively -were 6th club under 18 and 12th club in Junior with Maebhdh the first scorer on the club teams and also first scorer on the county team. Meanwhile in the Men’s U18/Junior Cathal O’Reilly had an excellent run to place sixth.
In the 8k U23/Senior race our team was very much a Richardson affair with Aoibhe, Grace and Ella joined by Ciara Deely. The latter two also competiing in the U23 race and finished 15th and 23rd respectively. Aoibhe who is currently domiciled in the U.S. flew home for the race. In the leading group for most of the race she finished 4th which hopefully will lead to her selection for the Europeans on 5th Dec. In the senior race Grace placed 41, Ella 72 and Ciara 102 to give KCH fifth club and helping the County Kilkenny Team to 4th place.
We had two men in action in the Senior 10k. Both ran well with Eoin Everard placing 12th in 31.23 and Gerry Forde finishing 41st in 32.31.