At yesterday’s New York City Marathon Dave Connolly recording a fine PB, running negative splits, of 2:49.38. Bronagh Greaney also completed the course in 4:25.25.
On the subject of marathons, Dublin Athletics has confirmed the results of the Dublin Marathon Championships which were incorporated into the Dublin city Marathon. Both the Clonliffe men M35 and women M35 teams have medalled with the men taking M35 gold and the women M35 silver. Individually Clonliffe athletes also took Dublin medals: M45 gold for Ger Clerkin, M50 gold for Gary O’Hanlon, M55 silver for Brian O’Reilly, and bronze medals for Anto Doran M40, Oren Finnegan M50 and Anne Lyons W60. (Once we have these Dublin medals distribution will be arranged some evening after training along with other medals which we currently have for the Dublin 5K, 5 mile, 10 mile and half marathon championships)
Result of the national marathon have not as yet been confirmed, update once to hand.
In other news on Friday, October 30, Lorraine O’Connor was in action for Providence at the Big East cross country championships at Richmond, Virginia where she finished in 66th position in a high quality race, although Lorraine did not score on the team, Providence took 1st place.