The big race of last weekend was the popular Michael Manning Dunshaughlin 10k which is known for its fast times.  This was also a favourite race of the late Jim McNamara and in their pre-race materials the organisers remembered him and other Olympians such as Willie Dunne who achieved course records here over the years.

The rain drizzled down before the start but then cleared so conditions were cool and still for the race, past editions have often seen very hot conditions.

First home for the club was Eoin Hannon in 34.33 and George Brady continued his recent good form with 35.33.
First of the women was Anne Curley in 41.46 despite having to walk a good deal of the race due to an ongoing injury.  She was 2nd in her new W45 age group and Julia Hackett was 3rd in the same.

There were PBs from Ken Cronin and Catherine McKeon and Mary Murphy was delighted to run her fastest 10k in years.  The ladies won 3rd team prize (Anne, Rhona, Julia) and tribute again was paid to Jim Mc as the girls collected their prize.

Full results below:
Eoin Hannon 34.33
George Brady 35.33
Shane Russell 36.33
Anne Curley 41.46
Rhona McHugh 42.51
Ken Cronin 43.07
Julia Hackett 43.56
Grainne nolan 44.20
Jill dempsey 45.42
Terry Mee 45.48
Ariana ball 46.56
Mary Murphy 46.58
Catherine Mckeon 49.21
Deirdre Healy 52.45
Eilish Joyce 53.33
Jenny Okeeffe 55.16
Siofra McCarthy 56.18

The day before at the GV Ryan games in Irishtown, Eric Keogh was delighted to get a PB of 8.19.15 and 2nd place in the 3000m.  Ray Hynes came 14th in 8.44.22.  Sam Allen ran a time of 9.15

Sinead lambe had a great win the 800m B race in 2.22.71 with Maura Kearns not far behind in 2nd place 2.23.22.  Karla doran ran 2.26.82.

In the 1500m B race, Luke Boland was 12th in 4.27.10

We had a few competitors at the Castleknock 5k including 2 of our juvenile middle distance runners
Tom Fagan 19.49
Hannah Birmingham 23.54
Laoise Toland 25.13

Kim Boyle ran 25.52 at the Drogheda midsummer 5k.

Niall Lynch is topping the leaderboard at the IMRA Leinster mountain running league with a 3rd place finish in the latest race at Djouce mountain.