March 23/24 Results

Breege Blehein, Noel Gibbons,  Colette Tuohy, Seamus Gaughan  were our leading finishers at four week-end events with excellent performances in tough conditions. Colette matched her 2012 finish place in the West’s premier 10 mile race at Craughwell and was 1st o40; also in action there were Brendan Hession and Gerry Galvin both with brilliant PBs  Pauline Moran was women’s o50  winner in Castlebar Duathlon, and Seamus Gaughan finished first o60 in the Dunboyne 4 mile.  Details to date are:

Sat 23 March: Mayo Mud Run  “8.5k of energy sapping clean DIRTY fun – run, crawl, jump over natural terrain, while endeavouring not to get lost on the forest trails”
197 finishers; Men 1 Donal Egan 43:43; Women 1 Lorraine Carey 49:45, 2 Breege Blehein (Mayo AC) 50:19
results: http://www.redtagtiming.com/results/MayoMudRun2013.pdf

Harlequin Duathlon: (130 finishers) Men  1 Con Doherty 1:31:09; Mayo AC finishers  5 Noel Gibbons 1:44:23, 15 Dwayne Flynn 1:52:38, 16 Anto Devanney 1:52:41, 25 Sean Murphy 1:58: 38; 51 PJ Hall 2:08:23; John Roddy 2:47:43.

Women 1 AnnMarie Egan 1:56:36; 2 Colette Sweeney, 7 Anne Heaney 2:08:37; Pauline Moran 1st o50 2:14:17. Maggie Heneghan 2:13:43; Anne Fahey 2:14:34; Patricia Kavanagh 2:47:43

Sun 24 March: Craughwell 10 (615 finishers) Men 1 Mick Clohessy (Raheny Shamrock) 51:16, 2 Michael Shannon 52:26 , 3 Gerry Ryan (Craughwell AC) 52:39 ; Women 1 Elish Kelly (Raheny Shamrock) 57:44;  2 Barbara Sanchez (Raheny Shamrock) 3 P Curley (Tullamore AC) 60:11;  4/1st o40 Colette Tuohy (Mayo AC) 65:40; 5 Regina Casey (GCH) 66:41
Other Mayo AC Brendan Hession 63:50 PB; Gerry Galvin 64:04 PB; Christy O’Malley 78:40; John Geraghty 80:56
Results http://www.redtagtiming.com/results/Craughwell10_2013.pdf

Dunboyne 4 mile : 1st M60: 1 Seamus Gaughan (Mayo AC) 24.51