A total of 41 Eagle AC members took part in this years Dublin City Marathon, the highest ever number from the club. As well as there being some fine individual performances, it looks as if the club may have got into the medals in the National Marathon Championships.

In the M35 category, Alan O’Brien ran a superb time of 2h 33m 34s to take Silver. In the M50 team category, the team of Ronan Boland, Frank Hill and Martin Leahy look like they have taken Bronze.

As with all provisional results, they could well change over the next few days.

2 4328 Alan O Brien EAGLE A.C. M35 02:33:34

3 Ronan Boland, Frank Hill, Martin Leahy EAGLE A.C. M50 08:33:42

These are the gun times for the 41 Eagle AC members taking part…

10 4328 Alan O Brien EAGLE A.C. M35 02:33:34
83 4327 Ronan Boland EAGLE A.C. M50 02:48:31
100 3645 Sean O Keeffe EAGLE A.C. M35 02:49:26
119 4685 Frank Hill EAGLE A.C. M50 02:51:08
135 2231 Vivian Foley EAGLE A.C. M45 02:52:01
150 439 Ruairi O Callaghan EAGLE A.C. M35 02:53:38
157 1079 Martin Leahy EAGLE A.C. M50 02:54:03
177 3361 Colin O Herlihy EAGLE A.C. M45 02:55:31
219 448 Ken Mulcahy EAGLE A.C. M45 02:57:55
460 4883 Chris Bristow EAGLE A.C. MS 03:10:21
577 3649 Donal Dowling EAGLE A.C. M40 03:15:49
629 1594 Paul Cotter EAGLE A.C. M40 03:17:43
738 2392 John Sheehan EAGLE A.C. M45 03:21:56
756 3666 Grellan Mc Grath EAGLE A.C. M50 03:22:53
877 11181 Finbarr Lehane EAGLE A.C. M45 03:27:47
904 6962 Richard Fahey EAGLE A.C. M35 03:28:40
961 970 Brian Mc Guire EAGLE A.C. M45 03:30:00
1245 8858 Eddie Trindle EAGLE A.C. M40 03:39:13
1306 6077 Gillian Murphy EAGLE A.C. F40 03:40:36
1309 4210 Colin Foley EAGLE A.C. MS 03:40:44
1427 11901 Karen Bevan EAGLE A.C. F35 03:44:33
1510 11170 Kevin Fennessy EAGLE A.C. M40 03:47:16
1528 6591 John Mc Carthy EAGLE A.C. M35 03:47:43
1593 1093 Damien Malone EAGLE A.C. M35 03:49:40
1685 7183 Tracy Cotter EAGLE A.C. FS 03:51:43
1734 4204 Sean Lucey EAGLE A.C. MS 03:53:04
1779 6978 Olive Dooley EAGLE A.C. F40 03:54:25
1795 1791 Barry Lynch EAGLE A.C. MS 03:55:04
1840 3290 Damian Kenneally EAGLE A.C. MS 03:56:07
1841 2531 Jonathan Kenneally EAGLE A.C. MS 03:56:07
2050 6140 Patrick O Gorman EAGLE A.C. M40 04:00:21
2074 3278 Richard Hawkins EAGLE A.C. M45 04:00:41
2181 15656 Helen Cronin EAGLE A.C. F35 04:03:51
2190 7900 Dympna Connolly EAGLE A.C. F40 04:04:02
2566 9497 Derek Costello EAGLE A.C. M45 04:16:23
2664 11171 Eleanor Fennessy EAGLE A.C. F35 04:19:10
2679 14236 Sorcha Nash EAGLE A.C. F35 04:19:28
2798 16014 Brenda Murphy EAGLE A.C. F35 04:22:52
2919 17711 Irene Keohane EAGLE A.C. F40 04:27:20
2952 7850 Michael Noonan EAGLE A.C. M35 04:28:25
3039 15726 Pat King EAGLE A.C. M40 04:31:29

Photo courtesy of Peter Mooney

Results – below 10k (Karen Bevan and Mairead Lonergan)
Sunday 16th Oct 2016
The Ardfield 5k, took place on Sunday the 16th with one Eagle name on the results.
Well done to Mairead 5th Lady home and a new PB !
504 12 Mairead Lonergan Eagle AC F* 23:14
Results

Saturday October 15th 2016
Parkrun Results
Ballincollig
23. Derek Costello 21.48 VM 45-49 M 23
28. Joe Murphy 22.19 VM 60-64 M 28
31. John Kiggins 22.35 VM 35-39 M 31
33. Maeve Cotter 22.40 VW 35-39 F 1 (First Lady!) (New PB!)
67. Noella Carroll 25.33 VW 40-44 F 13
104. Flor Twohig 28.02 VM 50-54 M 77 (New PB!)
119. Monica Twohig 29.35 VW 50-54 F 37

Castle Demense, Macroom
7. Richard Piotrowski 21.13 VM 65-69 M 7

Cross Country Results: Well done to Kevin Geary, our only representative in the Intermediate COunty Championships held last Sunday in Carraig na bhFear. Kevin finished in 28th position.

Results 10km and over (Ruairi Egan)
The Rebel Run took place in Bishopstown on Sunday Oct 16th with 345 participants. There were 7 Eagles listed in the results of the 10k. Well done to Catherine Murphy who was first F40.

POS NAME (#) TIME NETTIME CATEG (POS) GENDER (POS)
12 Pat O’Connor (1316) 00:38:29 00:38:26 Over 40 (4) Male (12)
34 Darren Casey (1392) 00:43:12 00:43:07 Over 40 (12) Male (33)
49 Catherine Murphy (721)00:44:45 00:44:39 Over 40 (1) Female (5)
67 Geraldine Corcoran(843)00:46:27 00:46:22 Over 40 (4) Female (8)
79 Maeve Cotter (659) 00:47:15 00:47:01 Senior (6) Female (13)
89 Ita Kirwan (794) 00:48:10 00:47:55 Over 40 (8) Female (16)
186 Fiona O’Riordan (1305)00:54:43 00:54:28 Over 40 (29) Female (60)
Results

Also on Sunday was the Amsterdam Marathon and we had 5 Eagles participating:

Derek O’ Keeffe : 2:47:41 M40 (29) Overall (160)
Paul Daly 3:04:09 M45 (83) Overall (1842)
Denis Carroll : 3:22:03 M55 (55) Overall (1707)
Ian Roche : 3:24:59 M35 (324) Overall (1910)
Gary Gibbons : 3:42:39 M40 (581) Overall (3370)

Well done to the 5 lads, great times & positions in a total number of 12,186 participants !

Flickr Photos : Derek Costello
24th Sept 2016 Castletownbere Wild Atlantic Way 10k & 4k
https://flic.kr/s/aHskJLQheJ
2nd Oct 2016 Cross-Country Championships
https://flic.kr/s/aHskLGPbS5
2nd Oct 2016 Open Cross Country in Dungarvan
https://flic.kr/s/aHskLGQ7jW
09th Oct 2016 Cross-Country Championships
https://flic.kr/s/aHskFuk5Vm
16th Oct 2016 LeisureWorld Rebel Run
https://flic.kr/s/aHskFuQwzt
04th Feb 2016 Doneraile park , found this video during the week. Forgot to put it up on flickr.
https://flic.kr/s/aHskJM2GhS

Eagle News:
Monday night runs: The Monday night runs are still going strong. Contact Tim McCarthy for details.

Club Trip: The club plan to travel to Eyeries 5 Mile Road Race on Saturday Nov. 12th. If interested please contact Pat Twomey asap

Results -(Karen Bevan and Mairead Lonergan)
Parkrun Results October 8th
Ballincollig
5 John Dunphy 20.17 VM 45-49 M5 96
20 Pat Twomey 22.16 VM 65-69 M19 5
Castle Demese Macroom
7 Richard Piotrowski 21.29 VM 65-69 M7 59

Knocknacurra 7 Mile: There are no full results for this, but we had several prizewinners in this race of a more unusual distance of 7 miles! Well done to Ruairi Egan who was first M40, David O Callaghan, first M50, and to Mary Cotter who was first F50.

County Senior Cross Country Championships: Well done to John O Callaghan who represented Eagle in Carrigadrohid last weekend. John finished 23rd in the Senior race.

Waterford Open XC: One cross country result from last week slipped under the radar. Well done to Ken Higgs who finished first M55 in the Open Cross Country in Dungarvan on Sunday the 2nd of October

Newtownhamilton Half Marathon: Another month, another half marathon. Well done to Ed Fitzgerald, who continued his quest to run a half marathon every month this year. Race number Ten took place a bit further afield, in Newtownhamilton in Armagh. Ed ran 1:46:06 on a very hilly course.

Trail and Hill Notes – Gerard Down
Results
Kaisermarathon – mountain marathon, Soll, Austria, Sat Oct 8th.
Eagle AC – Gerard Down M -0 55. Time 6.01.06 – 18th out of 38 in 0- 55 category

Cork Woodland Race
Results
Eagle AC – Neil Mackey MO , Time 25.55 – 7th overall and 5th in category.
Paul Cotter MO, Time 32.41 -25th overall and 14th in category
Well done to Neil and Paul and good to see Eagle AC members in this local race and on a course that has occasionally been used for training by club members.
If any other members took part please let me know as the club name is not listed and I am relying on photos as I may not recognise names on results list.

Amsterdam Marathon: Very best of luck to Ian Roche, Derek O’ Keeffe and Denis Carroll (and anyone else we may have missed!) who will run in the Amsterdam Marathon this weekend.

Well done to everybody who ran Cork to Cobh on Sunday, and also to our representatives at the County Novice Cross Country, see below for as many results as we could root out!

Results – below 10k (Karen Bevan and Mairead Lonergan)

Parkrun Results October 1st
Ballincollig
19. Joe Murphy 21.28 VM 60-64 M 18
24. Pat Twomey 22.10 VM 65-69 M 23
41. Ruairi Egan 23.52 VM 45-49 M 39
69. Elaine Guinane 25.56 VW 35-39 F 7
104. Flor Twohig 28.05 VM 50-54 M 87 (New PB!)
130. Monica Twohig 29.51 VW 50-54 F 35
196. John Dunphy 41.51 VM 45-49 M 121

Castle Demense, Macroom
4. Richard Piotrowski 22.13 VM 65-69 M 4

Cross Country Novice County Championships: Well done to John O Callaghan (30th) and Raymond Harrington (78th), who were our only representatives in Conna last weekend

Race results, 10k & above:(Ruairi Egan)
The big race last weekend was the annual BHAA Cork to Cobh 15 mile. As there were so many Eagles taking part we have tried to list everyone, even though there are no clubs listed. We know some times are incorrect and due to be amended, but they are all we have to go on today. Apologies to anyone we missed.

Sean O Keeffe 1:36:16
Pat O’Connor 1:37:39
Ruairi O’Callaghan 01:38:05
Martin Leahy 01:38:21
Ken Mulcahy 01:38:31
Colin O’Herlihy 01:39:16
Chris Bristow 01:43:46
James Ryan 01:44:01
Paul Cotter 01:45:49
Greg Moore 01:47:26
Brian Mc Guire 01:51:02
John Dunphy 01:52:03
Martin Daly 01:52:37
Elaine Guinane 01:54:54
Tim McCarthy 01:55:34
Gillian Murphy 01:55:46
Jonathan Kenneally 01:55:49
Colin Foley 01:55:50
Kevin Fennessey 01:56:20
Cathal Twomey 01:56:55
Andrew O’Farrell 02:01:28
Eddie Trindle 02:02:23
Gary Gibbons 02:04:32
Karen Bevan 02:05:10
Michael Noonan 02:09:40
Tracey Cotter 02:10:55
Frances O’Connor 02:11:42 (2nd F55)
Helen Cronin 02:16:36
Mairead Lonergan 02:16:49
Irene Keohane 02:39:46

Greg Moore in the Cork to Cobh 15 mile

Results from further afield: One Eagle result from across the water at the weekend, Damien Malone took part in the Matalan Merseyside 10k, a big charity race on Aintree racecourse with almost 1200 entrants. Well done to Damien who finished 59th overall with a new PB.
Damien Malone Male 00:41:28 59 Eagle AC

Trail and Hill Notes – Gerard Down
The IMRA Hill/Trail season for 2016 in Cork/Munster is effectively over and will recommence in late January with the start of the MMRA short race league. For any runner considering trying trail/hill racing, there are quite a few parks and forests in Cork city and close to Cork that would be useful for training.
Garryduff Woods With a 5 K race in Garryduff woods on the 9th, a quick look at this venue would be in order. The official entrance is adjacent to and runs parallel to the the Garryduff Sports Centre at the top of both Coach Hill and Clarkes Hill which run off the Rochestown Road – Clarkes Hill is about 5) metres beyond small roundabout leading to and from Link Road. The entrance lane is about 150 metres long and at end, take a right which leads into the woods and about two hundred metres on you reach a central area. From here you can do a roughly one mile circuit. Whether you go right or left you will meet reasonably challenging hills so it is demanding if you are new to trails. If you keep to the edge of woods, you will sooner or later, get back to where you started.In wet weather parts of the trail can be muddy and care is needed with roots and stumps sticking out of ground. 4
Coillte have a good article on the woods on their site : http://www.coillteoutdoors.ie/index.php?id=171&rec_site=143

Upcoming events:
1. There is a 5 K trail race being held in Oldcourt Woods
( Garryduff Woods) on October 9th- further details courtesy of Cork Running Blog https://www.facebook.com/CorkWoodlandAdventureRace

2. Upcoming Mountain Marathon in Austria with Eagle AC participation is the Kaisemarathon in Soll, Austria on this coming saturday.

Eagle News:
Autumn/ Winter 3km races: For the past two years, the club has organised a 3km race series throughout the autumn/winter months. These take place during the usual Tuesday track training time approximately every 6 weeks, and the provisional date for the first one is on Oct. 11th. Further details nearer the time. All members are welcome to take part and in previous years we have held two races on each night to accommodate various paces.

Coffee Run: Having been scuppered by adverse weather last Saturday, we will now have the next coffee run on Sat. Oct. 22nd, which will make an ideal taper run for anyone doing Dublin the following week. All details will be sent as usual the previous week.

Flickr photos by Derek Costello:
24th Sept 2016 Killarney 10 mile https://flic.kr/s/aHskKYgjic
25th Sept 2016 Women’s Mini Marathon Cork https://flic.kr/s/aHskKYf7Fg
01st Oct 2016 Ballincollig park run https://flic.kr/s/aHskJ2sTUJ
02nd Oct 2016 Cork to Cobh 15 mile https://flic.kr/s/aHskEJ78sq

Results – below 10k (Karen Bevan and Mairead Lonergan)

Saturday 24th September 2016
Parkrun Results
Only 2 Eagles braved the Parkrun in the terrible weather that Saturday morning brought. Well done Gillian First Lady home.
Ballincollig
10. John Dunphy 20.47 VM 45-49 M 10
15. Gillian Murphy 22.05 VW 40-44 F 1 (1st Female!)

The Wild Atlantic Way Run was held on Saturday the 24th of September in Castletownbere in West Cork. A total of 89 people took part, 47 in the 10k and 42 in the 4k. Well done to Vincent on winning the 10K event !
1 395 Vincent O’Sullivan Eagle AC 0:41:29

Vincent O’Sullivan…1st in the Castletownbere 10k

Race results, 10k & above:(Ruairi Egan)
The Killarney 10 mile race was on last Saturday, 24th. Just 2 Eagles took part but both finished in the prizes. Deirdre Nagle was 1st Female home and a top 20 finish overall, and Pat O’Connor took 1st M45 with his 10th place finish. Well done to both.
10 Pat O’CONNOR (175) 01:04:16 Ages 45 49(1)
19 Deirdre NAGLE (163) 01:08:42 Ages 18-39(1)

The Berlin marathon took place on Sunday the 26th, A group of 5 Eagles made the trip, and after dedicating most of this year to training, all 5 recorded PB’s. Pride of place must go to Alan O’Brien with a sensational 2’34”56, averaging sub 6 min/mile, but all 5 must be delighted with their times. Very well done to the gang.
Alan O Brien 2:34:56
Ronán Boland 2:45:43
Frank Hill 2:52:07
Linda Cussen 3:31:21
Lisa Boland 3:35:16

Trail and Hill Notes – Gerard Down
The IMRA Hill/Trail season for 2016 in Cork/Munster is effectively over and will recommence in late January with the start of the MMRA short race league. For any runner considering trying trail/hill racing, there are quite a few parks and forests in Cork city and close to Cork that would be useful for training.
This week I will briefly mention Beaumont Drive park in the Southside.( The park doesn’t seem to have an official name and some people may know it by the name of the adjacent Beaumont Quarry) The main access points are Beaumont Drive and at the end of Woodvale Road next to Scoill Barra. There is also a pedestrian access to the park along a pathway parallel to Ballinlough Pitch & Putt club opposite Cork Constitution Rugby Club. This park is the venue for the only cross country race on the BHAA calendar, which takes place in January and is a 5 k race taking in 3 circuits of the park. So the park is also a useful ground for cross country training.The main body of the park is on gently sloping ground and should not present a challenge to any runner. By extending your run into the smaller section by Beaumont Drive you have the option of
incorporating one of two hills; one is a short incline and the other is a relatively short but more challenging hill- the BHAA X country race uses the more challenging hill. By using the whole park, you have a circuit of approximately one mile. Next week I will briefly look at Garryduff Coillte forest
Upcoming events:
1. There is a 5 K trail race being held in Oldcourt Woods ( Garryduff Woods) on October 9th- further details courtesy of Cork
Running Blog https://www.facebook.com/CorkWoodlandAdventureRace

Eagle News:
Autumn/ Winter 3000m races: For the past two years, the club has organised a 3km race series throughout the autumn/winter months. These take place during the usual Tuesday track training time approximately every 6 weeks, and the provisional date for the first one is in two weeks time- Oct. 11th. Further details nearer the time. All members are welcome to take part and in previous years we have held two races on each night to accommodate various paces.

Coffee Run: Having been scuppered by adverse weather last Saturday, we will now have the next coffee run on Sat. Oct. 22nd, which will make an ideal taper run for anyone doing Dublin the following week. All details will be sent as usual the previous week.

Flickr photos by Derek Costello:
18th Sept 2016 Charleville Half Marathon
https://www.flickr.com/gp/125872653@N04/2a56i6
10th Sept 2016 Midland Park 5km, New Jersey
https://flic.kr/s/aHskDYQahs