Catherine Devitt ran the race of her life when coming second in today's National Novice Cross Country in the Curragh over a testing 3k course. Catherine mixed it with the leading four for the first small lap and ran into a commanding second place in the final large lap. Catherine was also first scorer on the winning Dublin team. Laura Behan, KCK AC was first. Next for the Club came Eilis Connery (47th), Ciara Hassett (53rd), Grainne Connor (60th) and Aisling Tohill. The ladies team were in 3rd place. In the Mens Novice race over 6k Louis McCarthy was first home for the Club in 16th place. Louis was a scorer on the winning Dublin team. Louis was followed by Niall Somers (53rd), Paul Stephenson, (58th) and Shane O'Neill (80th) who scored on the Club team to take 6th place. Good runs were had by Eugene Coakley, Jason Reid, Neil Bolger, Ciaran Alyward, John Brennan, Aidan Connolly, Terry Clarke, Peter Twomey and Gerard Claffey. David Scanlon ran well in the Boys Under 19 race as did Mitchell Byrne from Walkinstown AC. Well done to all. Provisional results of the Novice races are on the AAI website. Pictures are posted in the Gallery.
Catherine running in for second place and after being presented with the silver medal
Ladies Novice team (Grainne, Catherine, Eilis, Aisling and Ciara)
Mens Novice team (Back Row: Peter, Paul, Gerard, Niall, Louis, Eugene, Ciaran and Aiden. Front row: Shane, Neil and Jason)