At the European Mountain Running Championships in Skopje, Macedonia on Sunday 1st July 2018 Rathfarnham WSAF AC's Mark Ryan ran very well to come 39th individual overall and part of the Irish team who came 10th. Well done Mark. Everybody in the club is very proud of your achievement to be competing at such a high level.
We had two athletes in the St. Cocas AC 5k Kilcock on Friday 29th June 2018. Both ran verywell. Bobby Murphy came 5th overall in 15:16 (New Road PB!! for him) and Lynne Hennessy came in as 4th woman in 18:44. Well done guys.
Well done to all who competed in the Docklands 5k organised by Crusaders AC. Paul Flemming ran 16:19, Turlough Conway 16:48, Colm Murray 17:02, Clare Sullivan 18:31, Catriona Dowling (19:29 PB!!) and Aisling O’Connor 21:32. Yet another race in warm conditions!
Congratulations to Joe Casey won the M55 category at the Irish Runner 5mile Race in the Phoenix Park in a time of 30:56. Tommy Bishop ran 33:53, Brendan Hogan 32:32 and Jos Lalor 39:42. Well done everybody.
Rathfarnham WSAF AC won first place at the Michael Manning Memorial Dunshaughlin 10k on a balmy Saturday evening in a very high caliber field. Unbelieveably this was the first time we have won the team event at this, the longest running annual 10k race in the country. Well done to the team of Bobby Murphy 32:13, Mitchel Byrne 32:33, Paul Stephenson 33:41 and Paul Flemming 33:56. Ciaran Aylward ran 35:11 and Denis Daly 37:50 (PB!). Clare Sullivan was the 7th women home in a massive PB of 38:25 and Vanessa Sallier ran 43:17.
