Dublin Marathon

Well done Maire Lawlor on a new PB of 3 hr 43 mins for the 26.2 miles at the Dublin Marathon on bank holiday Monday. Other members who joined Maire on her Dublin spin include: Brendan Aspel (3:00), Pat Nolan (3.01), Finley Weir (3.09), Pat Grant (3.15), Mary Jennings (3.18), Mary Burke (3.22), Sarah Lee (3.23), Alan Purcell (3.25), Ray O Mahoney (3.26), Ger Nolan (3.44) and Davey Foley (3.57) Great going all. Photos thanks to Michael O'Connel (Dee's brother...who missed the big shot of the day..he says sorry Mary B)

Well done also to Brea Cooke who did 3hr 18mins in the Venice Marathon on Sunday Oct 24th.

Waterford AC in Europe

No stopping club members Maire Lawlor, Rosie Van der Valk, Jacinta Brazil, Tina Connolly and Gabrielle Blair in their efforts to get in the weekend long run. For the 3rd year Waterford AC was represented at the Paris 20Km and as well as great running some excellent food and shops were experienced. A long way to go to prepare for the Waterford half marathon but Maire wanted to inspect Eurotunnel anyway so why not!

Great going girls and rumour has it that great times were had but of course what happens on tour stays on tour....but for race times check out http://www.20kmparis.com/

Munster Novice Cross Country

Well done to Cait Caulfield and Aoife McCormack who came home with County medals in the Novice event at the Munster championships in Cork on Sunday. In very tough cross country conditions Cait ran an exceptional race to finish 8th individually in a field that included U23 runners also. Other members who travelled and competed well were Claire Grant, Jim Baldwin, Dave Drohan, Kevin Malone, Alan Danagher and Eoin Palmer.

Also, great runs on the same day at the 10 mile solas run in the city was Diane Behan who beat last year's winner Silvia Malone into 2nd and Frank Quinlan came 2nd in the mens race. Well done to all members who ran the race and best of luck to all those now in the final preparations for the Dublin City Marathon.

Note: If any member who has entered for the Dublin Marathon would like to enter the National championship element of the event please email tom@waterfordac.com (or text 0863787051) with your race number before Oct 20th and he will enter you. There is no extra fee to enter the championship.

County Cross country senior championships

Great running again this week by Pauline Lambe in winning her first Waterford Senior cross country title and leading the ladies team of Diane Behan, Silvia Malone and Suzanne Dullaghan to a winning team title also. Diane won individaul bronze. Two gold medals for one race; can't be bad Pauline!
Also, well done to 'Coach' Brian Swaby and Jim Baldwin who came 2nd and 3rd respectively and lead home the winning team with David Drohan, Barry Lambe, Alan Danagher and Kevin Malone. Great job boys; no photo of ye this time!..Maybe at the Munsters if the camera is upto it!

County Novice and Masters Cross Country

Frank Quinlan sprinted off to a very good 3rd position in his first cross country outing of the year in the Novice mens race and Jim Baldwin followed his great form in Kilkenny and Wexford of the past 2 weeks to win the masters title in a very fast time for the 6K distance. The two helped Alan Danagher and Kevin Malone to team silver.

Our masters women of Diane Dehane, Cait Caulfield and Sylvia Malone did a 1,2,3 in the race and won the team event assisted by Suzanne Dullaghan. Great going all and plenty more cross country to come.

St Senans Open Sports

An excellent weekend of running for the club with Brendan Aspel, Eoin Dullea and Larry Kennedy running the Berlin Marathon and Brendan dipping under the 3 hour mark for the first time.

At the St Senans open sports our Senior ladies of Pauline Lambe, Diane Behane, Cait Caulfield and Suzanne Dullaghan won the team prize with Pauline and Diane being 1st and 2nd respectively. Cait also won the masters category.

Our Junior ladies of Kate Nolan, Niamh Tebay, Caroline Farrelly and Claire Grant won the junior ladies team prize with Kate and Niamh 2nd and 3rd individually.

Richard Lucas won the Junior Men race and Frank Quinlan lead home the senior team which also included Brian Swaby, Jim Baldwin and Kevin Malone. Frank was 2nd individually and Jim was 2nd in the Masters category.

Great representation by the club and lets hope many show for the Masters and Novice County Championship in the St Augustine College in Dungarvan on Sunday next, Oct 3rd. Juvenile races start at 1pm with Masters and Novice after.

Thursday session mile effort

Well done to all our members who had a go at the 5 min mile on the track on Thurs 16th. Well done to Brian Swaby, David Cunningham and Alan Danagher who all got under the 5 minutes and the many others who got close and produced PBs! A sample of some photos are shown above from the session..and well done to Luke & Fergus who both ran the mile in 6 min 22 while they were hanging around for their 7 o'clock juvenile session!

Some of those pictured above are Brian, David, Alan, Barry Lambe, Darrell Evans, Pauline Lambe, Suzanne Dullaghan, Eoin Palmer, Kevin Malone (and Albert & Niamh were keeping an eye on proceedings!!) Also there but avoided the camera include Joan Mahony and Richard Lucas.