A reminder to all Eagle AC members. Entries for the 2017 Ballycotton 10 mile road race are now open.
Go to https://register.primoevents.com/ps/event/Ballycotton102017
As club members, you will be able to avail of the entry window until midnight on Friday the 9th of December.
Monday Night Runs: The club runs on Monday evenings at 7.45pm are now up and running. Pace is a relaxed, conversational pace, all welcome. Runs will take place around well-lit areas and last an hour or less. Hi-vis gear essential. See club e-mail for details.
Results – below 10k (Karen Bevan and Mairead Lonergan)
Parkrun Results Saturday 26th November 2016
Ballincollig
49 Andrew O’FARRELL 23:07 VM60-64 M 48 Eagle A.C.
24 Joe MURPHY 21:36 VM60-64 M 24 Eagle A.C.
106 Kevin O DRISCOLL 27:04 VM65-69 M 91 Eagle A.C.
13 Richard PIOTROWSKI 20:54 VM65-69 M 13 Eagle A.C.
12 Andrew KELLY 20:51 SM30-34 M 12 Eagle A.C.
11 Cathal TWOMEY 20:48 SM25-29 M 11 Eagle A.C. New PB!
63 Richard HAWKINS 23:56 VM45-49 M 58 Eagle A.C. New PB!
27 Pat TWOMEY 21:47 VM65-69 M 27 Eagle A.C. New PB!
Castle Demense, Macroom
10 John DUNPHY 21:50 VM45-49 M 10 Eagle A.C.
Results – above 10k (Ruairi Egan)
Waterford Half-Marathon : At least 18 members made the trip to Waterford on Saturday for the annual half, with some great times recorded. Well done to all. Eagle AC was not mentioned on all results so if anyone has been missed please do let us know for next week’s email.
16 Foley Vivian 1459 1:18:19 1:18:16 5:59/M M45 Eagle A.C….3rd M45
36 O’ Connor Pat 1504 1:21:33 1:21:33 6:13/M M45 Eagle A.C.
52 Mulcahy Ken 2876 1:23:15 1:23:09 6:21/M M45 Eagle A.C.
108 Moore Gregg 1305 1:27:53 1:27:45 6:42/M M45 Eagle A.C.
193 Daly Martin 2591 1:32:41 1:32:30 7:04/M M40 Eagle A.C.
270 Guinane Elaine 1690 1:36:22 1:35:59 7:21/M F35 Eagle A.C.
290 Ryan Mairead 1808 1:37:01 1:36:53 7:24/M SF Eagle A.C
353 Bevan Karen 1747 1:38:49 1:38:27 7:33/M F35 Eagle A.C.
405 Geraldine Corcoran 2430 1:39:54 1:39:23 7:37/M F40 Eagle A.C.
468 Cotter Mary 1379 1:42:10 1:41:53 7:48/M F50 Eagle A.C.
470 Fitzgerald Ed 1117 1:42:17 1:41:45 7:48/M M45 Eagle A.C.
485 Cotter Tracy 2663 1:42:35 1:42:13 7:50/M F35 Eagle A.C.
557 Cotter Maeve 1389 1:44:22 1:43:41 7:58/M F35 Eagle A.C.
658 Grace O’ Leary 2212 1:47:17 1:46:32 8:11/M SF Eagle A.C.
700 Cronin Helen 1361 1:48:12 1:47:40 8:15/M F35 Eagle A.C.
813 Lonergan Mairead 1481 1:51:27 1:50:55 8:30/M SF Eagle A.C.
1042 Costello Derek 2478 1:56:58 1:55:53 8:56/M M45 Eagle A.C.
1134 Mc Kenzie Betty 1932 1:59:21 1:58:41 9:07/M F50 Eagle A.C
Also on at the weekend was the Clonakilty marathon, half-marathon & 10k and the club was represented in each race.
10K
35 Mark GALLAGHER 00:44:20 00:44:22 2598 M (32) (35)Eagle A.C.
78 Ken HIGGS 00:48:56 00:49:17 2427 M (65) (78)Eagle AC
Half-marathon
20 Darren CASEY 01:34:49 01:34:56 1609 M (19)M40 (5)Eagle AC
96 Colin FOLEY 01:43:19 01:44:48 1196 M (83)MS (39)Eagle AC
170 Donal MCGRATH 01:52:19 01:52:48 1680 M (137)M50 (18)Eagle A.C.
339 Jane MCGRATH 02:06:20 02:06:49 1679 F (91)M50 (26)Eagle A.C.
Full marathon
149 Charlie BYRD 04:02:44 04:03:05 333 M (126)M50 (19)Eagle AC
Eagle News: AGM: The Club AGM will be held on Wednesday January 18th 2017 at 8pm.
Now that the dark Winter evenings have arrived, the club now has additional runs on Mondays in and near Cork City.
See the weekly club e-mail for details.
The Munster Masters Cross Country Championships were held in Dungarvan, Co.Waterford on Sunday the 20th of November 2016.
In the M45 category, Vivian Foley finished first while Pat Twomey and Ken Higgs told Gold and Silver in the M65 category.
Full results here… https://www.facebook.com/wwathletics/posts/1309978032367838
On Saturday Nov 12th I joined a sizable group of fellow Eagles (I lost count but close on 20 members) for our club outing to the beautiful village of Eyeries in the bowels of West Cork. Our fellow club member Mark Gallagher is instrumental in organising this race. The proceeds of this year’s race benefited a fantastic local charity initiative called Cancer Connect. This is a non-profit organisation run by local volunteers that co-ordinates transport to and from Cork Hospitals for patients from the most rural areas of West Cork in order that they can avail of Chemotherapy and Radiotherapy services in the specialised treatment centres in the Cork Hospitals. This is a free service for these patients which as you can imagine benefits so many cancer sufferers and their families in the region.
Eyeries, for those of you who may not have had the pleasure of having visited before, has to be the most picturesque village on the Beara Peninsula overlooking Coulagh Bay and the mouth of the Kenmare River. The views over the bay are truly breathtaking and I had the pleasure of been given a brief geography lesson and whistle stop tour of the village by Kevin Sievewright The bulk of us traveled down from Cork by bus (kindly organised by the club) having met in Bishopstown at 10:30 on the morning of the race.The race start was 2:30 which gave us a comfortable amount of time to travel down and take in some of the sights locally and get organised for the race. The bus trip was a great opportunity for many of us to get to meet and chat with other Eagle members who perhaps otherwise we only get to salute briefly at the track on training nights. From the moment we departed Bishopstown it was a most memorable day. Pat Murphy diligently took a roll call and off we set. The weather for the day couldn’t have been better as we were treated to (almost) clear blue skies with the lightest of breezes making for very pleasant running conditions.
John Dunphy & Finbarr Lehane
We arrived in Eyeries at approximately 1 o clock to be warmly welcomed by Mark, Kevin, and Austin ably assisted by their kids. The hospitality we were shown was absolutely humbling.The organisers couldn’t do enough for us from the moment we registered. Mark handed out all our race numbers and we were directed to the most unique of race HQs. It is difficult to describe this venue other than to say I think the race HQs doubled as the local town hall/Céilí Hall which was like stepping back in time 50 years is all I can say! After some brief chat and friendly banter a Tour de Force of Eagles were taken on a pre-race warm up run by the ever efficient Kevin Sievewright for some more local sight-seeing before we lined up for the start of the race. The young and not so young were all represented on the start line and with the hoot of the horn we all set off on the 5 mile route around Eyeries. A testing course in that if one had not done one’s homework like yours truly you could easily be found wanting by mile 4 when some fairly challenging climbs appear before you! But there was a lovely descent back into the village and finish line for the last mile to help you get your breath back!
Karen Bevan…3rd F35
Following the race we all retired to race HQ to be treated to top drawer hospitality from the locals of Eyeries. The tea, sandwiches and cakes were flying and they fed an army of us. All I can say about the prize giving is that there were a lot of Eagles featuring in the prizes which had the locals very impressed! From there we retired to O Shea’s pub which was a hop, skip and a jump across the road where we enjoyed a quiet one or two drinks, reflected on all our endeavours that day and rather surprisingly were treated to an Ireland soccer victory against Austria! What a perfect day! Final whistle went from Vienna and like sheep Joe and Pat shepherded us carefully back on the bus back to Cork.
Grellan McGrath taking a break from the 100 milers
Finally, a special thanks to a few people. To the club committee for having organised this trip. It was my first experience of an Eagle away trip and a great day out. Eyeries is the most beautiful of villages and the people the most friendly and hospitable that you could meet. Pat Twomey and Pat Murphy for all the logistics of the day well done guys. A final thanks to the man without whom this trip would not have been possible, Mark Gallagher. To witness the work that Mark and his team put into yesterday’s event was humbling and to know that it benefited a very worthy local charity made it a privilege to have been part of . On behalf of all the Eagles who made the trip to Eyeries It was a pleasure to have been part of a very special event like yesterday’s and I hope the club can make this an annual trip away as I suspect you will have many Eagles looking forward to this trip on their race calendar for 2017!
…Vivian Foley
Vivian Foley…2nd man home
Elaine Guinane…3rd woman
2 0:29:20 FOLEY, Vivian Eagle AC M45 492 – 2nd Home
6 0:30:40 O’KEEFFE, Derek Eagle AC M40 486 – 1st M40
8 0:32:40 O’HERLIHY, Colin Eagle AC M45 420 – 3rd M45
10 0:33:02 DOWLING, Donal Eagle AC M40 491- 2nd M40
12 0:33:10 SMITH, Tim Eagle AC M55 484 – 1st M55
13 0:33:24 SIEVEWRIGHT, Kevin Eagle AC M50 416 – 1st M50
21 0:34:39 O’CARROLL, Denis Eagle AC M55 494 – 2nd M55
22 0:34:40 FOLEY, Colin Eagle AC MS 482
26 0:35:47 GALLAGHER, Mark Eagle AC M40 255
28 0:36:00 MURPHY, Joe Eagle AC M60 493 – 1st M60
29 0:36:08 O’CALLAGHAN, David Eagle AC M55 1333 – 3rd M55
30 0:36:15 LEHANE, Finbarr Eagle AC M45 485
32 0:36:21 DUNPHY, John Eagle AC M45 488
38 0:36:57 GUINANE, Elaine Eagle AC F35 483 – 3rd Lady home
39 0:37:08 MCGRATH, Grellan Eagle AC M50 487
43 0:38:13 COTTER, Maeve Eagle AC F35 199 – 2nd F35
45 0:38:23 BEVAN, Karen Eagle AC F35 455 – 3rd F35
50 0:38:57 TRINDLE, Eddie Eagle AC M40 490
51 0:39:10 KIRWAN, Ita Eagle AC F45 1291- 1st F45
72 0:43:08 LEHANE, Niamh Eagle AC F40 448 – 2nd F40
74 0:43:11 MURPHY, Siobhan Eagle AC F35 481
82 0:43:58 MERRITT, Tony Eagle AC M50 489
109 0:47:43 LANE, Anthony Eagle AC MS 1307
Results – below 10k (Karen Bevan and Mairead Lonergan)
Sun 6th Nov 2016
Valley Rovers Camogie Club 7km
Club names were not listed in the results but some Eagle names spotted in the 7 km event. Apologies if anyone was missed & well done to all involved.
6 41 28.22 Denis Carroll
11 45 29.13 Ruairi Egan
34 12 33.1 Frances O Connor
Parkrun Results 05/11/16
Ballincollig
10 Pat O’CONNOR 19:35 VM45-49 M 10 Eagle A.C.
102 Michael DOOLEY 26:07 VM50-54 M 80 Eagle A.C.
26 Cathal TWOMEY 21:33 SM25-29 M 25 Eagle A.C
27 Peadar FORBES 21:35 VM35-39 M 26 Eagle A.C
64 Ruairi EGAN 23:59 VM45-49 M 57 Eagle A.C
107 Flor TWOHIG 26:25 VM50-54 M 85 Eagle A.C New PB!
176 Monica TWOHIG 29:42 VW50-54 F 54 Eagle A.C.
Castle Demense Parkrun Macroom
1 John DUNPHY 20:31 VM45-49 M 1 Eagle A.C 98 – 1st home !
Cross Country: Well done to our Masters Cross Country team who took part in the County Championships last Sunday. Vincent O’ Sullivan and Kevin Geary finished 12th and 13th in the M35 Category, while Ger Down just missed out on a medal, finishing 4th in the M55 Category. There were podium finishes, however, for Joe Murphy (3rd M60) and Pat Twomey (1st M60). Our M50 team finished 4th in the team results, while we did not have a team in the M35 category.
Flickr Photos : Derek Costello
09th Oct 2016 woodlands race
https://flic.kr/s/aHskL6jmKK
29th Oct 2016 Ballincollig 5k parkrun
https://flic.kr/s/aHskGKVtLz
5th Nov 2016 Ballincollig 5k parkrun
https://flic.kr/s/aHskNb7JSU
30th Oct 2016 Dublin City Marathon
https://flic.kr/s/aHskL38AzE
If anyone else has photos from the Dublin Marathon or any other races that i have missed , please send them to me.
Eagle News:
3km Race: The provisional date for the next 3km track race is Tuesday, November 23rd.
Coffee Run: The next Coffee run is provisionally fixed for Saturday December 10th.
The annual Eyeries 5 mile road race is coming up next Saturday the 12th of November 2016 at 2:30pm. Our very own Mark Gallagher is the race director for this event.
More info on the race here… http://corkrunning.blogspot.com/2016/09/noticeeyeries-5-mile-road-race-west.html
The club is organising a bus for members to go to this race and the plan is to go somewhere for a meal after the event. At the moment, we still have some places left.
Here are some details from Pat Twomey…”Just to let you know that there are now 19 members travelling by coach to Eyeries next Saturday 12th November for the 5 mile road race. We are meeting at 10.15 and returning from Eyeries at 7.00 in the evening arriving back in Cork for 10.00ish. The cost of the coach and entrance fee for the race is just €10 in total. As we have booked a 26 seater coach there are some places left and if you are interested in travelling please let me know.”
If you are interested then leave Pat know asap.
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.
Eagle Athletic Club 
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