National Senior Indoors – 3000m title for John Travers

After a fine run in Armagh on Thursday night, John Travers became the national indoor 3000m champion at the weekend. He faced down 2nd placed Eoin Everard in an exciting race, clocking a time of 8.25.21. A revelation in this race was 4th placed Darragh Fitzgibbon in 8.29.96, just a second off bronze. Darragh was in Iten Kenya earlier in January so the hard training paid off here! Eamonn Fahey reached the final of the 60m, he ran 7.06 seconds in the heats and then 7.00 in the final. In the pole vault, Ailbhe Healy finished joint 11th with a best vault of 2.70m
On the first day, David Campbell ran at 800m for the first time at national indoor and ran his heat in 2.06.05

Armagh International Race Report

The Brooks Armagh international race night has a reputation for its high class fields and fast times. This year a staggering 91 men went under the 15 minutes barrier and 2 were Donore men. John Travers was on the Irish team and finished up 17th overall in 14.16. 20 seconds behind was Eric Keogh in 47th place and he was delighted to get a new PB of 14.36. In the ladies 3k race, Sorcha Nic Dhomhnaill ran an excellent 10.19.

Roads-roundup

We have had some good results over the past few weeks on the road, notably Fergal Whitty 54.55 (17th) and Ray Lonergan 55.54 (25th) who made the top 25 at the John treacy Dungarvan 10 Mile.

Gavin Keogh came 6th at the Enniscorthy 10k in 35.15. A sizeable contingent ran the Trim 10 Mile including 4th placed Anthony Flannery 55.06, Chris Muldoon 62.20, Tony Barry 63.17, Niall O’Reilly 65.15, Florence curley 67.59, Tony Griffin 71.57, Sinead Oreilly 75.25, Joseph Maguire 80.16, Deirdre Healy 84.04, Ann Rush 86.21, Jo Hughes 88.11. Finally, Dean Glennon finished 21.45 at the Esker 5k.

Reports by Florence Curley