The Craughwell Handicap Chase is a fun annual event organised to allow people to train in race conditions.
Sorry about the delay in getting these results up – I was away from the old computer for the last few days. {rsg2_display: 26, superclean} In total 37 athletes turned up on another miraculously fine evening. Reacting well to the pressure of the final night, the running form was sensational on the night with an incredible 21setting PB's (considering for 5 people this was the first race that means 2 out of every 3 runners set a pb – amazing). …
Getting back to reality after the heroics in Finand the final race in the handicap series will be held on Friday next at the usual time. With one race to go the 2009 series is still very much in the balance. As a recap on the rules there are prizes for first 3 overall and one each for fastest woman and fastest man. You have to have run at least 3 races in the series to qualify. At the moment…
Provisional results of race 3 in the series are below. They are provisional until they are plugged into Mark's series spreadsheet which magically calculates the results and substracts 10 seconds from the times of those that slipped me a tenner before the race! Top performance today came from Muiriosa Holahan, clearly benefitting from the summer holidays! Muiriosa knocked a full 2 minutes and 45 seconds off her handicap. There were big improvements also of over a minute from James Corbett…
The penultimate handicap race of the 2009 series is on this Friday at the usual time. I won't actually be able to make it so if anyone is available to help Mike that would be great. The handicaps are below – enjoy!
39 athletes lined up for the second race of the handicap series. This was a much tougher fought affair than last week. Again it was newly registered people leading the way but they will find it a lot tougher to repeat this performance next week!
A muggy forecast might make PB's difficult to reach but you never know – sure we're getting used to tropical weather at this stage. If a big 5k pb is your goal don't forget to try out the Galway Track & Field Series in DANGAN on Thursday night where the track 5k will be held. Last year I set a pb of almost 20 seconds on the track at this time of year. For those that are racing on Friday night, the…
Thanks to all the athletes that turned up on a smashing evening for the first race in the series. 44 runners took part which was nice from our perspective as the full quota of 85 might have been a pinch!! First home was Patricia Walshe who managed to "survive" in her hare role – holding on for a gritty finish to just edge it ahead of Maria McArdle in a time of 33:40. These two led from the front for…
Please review the list below and get in touch if there is a problem. I really hope I haven't missed anyone. There will be no on the night entries. Note the start time – this indicates the time you will be starting at! Make sure you know what time group you are in – I'll do my best to organise you but it will be your responsibility to make sure you start off at the right time. Your numbers will…
** UPDATE: Hi folks the entries are now closed. I am just working now trying to figure out the handicaps, starting order, etc. Please log back on later on to see the list of entrants (waiting on an email with the last few names).** Tony wins Race 2 in 07 Now that you have recovered from the Galway 5K series it's time for another bout of 3.1 mile action – but this time with a twist. The staggered start of…
The overall leaderboard after three races is as follows, taking the 2 best scores for each athlete and assuming their 3rd score will come from the last race:- Score R1 R2 R3 Bib Name Club R1 Time R2 Time R3 Time 7 3 4 29 Henry Lupton Craughwell 00:23:25 00:22:30 8 4 4 11 14 Diarmuid Quill Craughwell 00:23:32 00:22:11 00:21:55 9 1 8 55 Garo O'Shaughnessy Craughwell 00:24:52 00:24:04 10 34 5 5 5 Patrick Moran Border Ramblers 00:23:43…
