While the eyes of the athletics World were focused on Abbotstown on Sunday, Kate Purcell posted an excellent 2:51.36 in the Malaga marathon, her debut over the distances this morning. Meanwhile Michael McEnery clocked 22:14 to finish sixth in the Ray D’Arcy Laura Lynn 6K. If you ran over the weekend please let us know via info @rahenyshamrock.ie
Brian Fay continued his excellent 2021 with a brilliant 10th place finish at the European cross country championship in Abbotstown. Fay ran an excellent race was just 30 seconds behind new European champion Jakob Ingebrgsten of Norway. “I was happy” explained Fay. “I thought the race would go off harder than it did and then it just kind of relaxed in that first K, and that let me get in…
Daniel Stone powered to national novice cross country bronze, leading the Raheny men to bronze. Stone continued his impressive season this time with a swift 6km to beat East Cork’s Paul Hartnett to bronze and was less than 100m off gold medallist Liam Harris of Togher. Craughwell’s Jamie Fallon took silver. In a very strong performance from the Raheny men Gavin Eccles took eighth place, Stephen Fay 28th and Luke…
Keiran Kelly took fifth place the Jingle Bells 5k in the Phoenix Park as the women’s team took second place. Kelly posted 14 minutes 30 seconds with the race won by the host club’s John Travers in 14:22. The women’s team of Kate Purcell, Zoe Quinn and Jenny Mulry took second place with 51 points, six points behind DCH. Full results of raheny athletes: Joe McCracken 16:17, Brian Leahy 16:49,…