On Saturday 26/09/09 about 6000 runners gathered in Phoenix Park to take part in this year’s Dublin half-marathon. Among the participants there were a lot runners in white and red Sportsworld singlets.
We ran on a new course which consisted of one lap and seemed flatter than last year’s. As it’s impossible to make one 13 miles lap in Phoenix Park that wouldn’t include any hills so some of us had difficult moments climbing the Kyber Road and the hill near the lake on the 12th mile. Fortunately, at the top of Kyber Rd there was a big group of our club runners who had just finished their weekly cross country session and gave us a great support.
The last hill seemed much harder as when it finally leveled up you had 12 miles in you legs and it was very difficult to force them to the final effort.
The fastest man from Sportsworld was Paul O’Connell (3rd overall) and our fastest woman was Stephanie Bergin.
Caroline Lynch was 1st in category F60. Eanna Cunnane who is getting back to running after a serious injury was 4th in M35 and Orla Jordan was 5th in F35.
Well done to all runners and thank you to all supporters!
There were so many club members taking part in the race that it was hard to find everyone in the results (if you ran and you’d like to be added on email us with your name and start number:-)).
Place overall/ Name/ From/ Cat./ Place in cat./ Chip time/ Finish time
3 Paul O’Connell (No. 2193) Kildare MS 3 01:11:09 01:11:10
20 Eanna Cunnane (No. 4947) Dublin M35 4 01:15:34 01:15:36
66 Gareth Murran (No. 121) Dublin MS 30 01:20:49 01:20:53
148 Joe Byrne (No. 5682) Dublin M40 25 01:24:49 01:24:53
169 Colm Kennedy (No. 5174) Waterford MS 79 01:25:20 01:25:25
186 Jakub Splawski (No. 2222) Poland MS 90 01:25:51 01:25:57
220 James Benson (No. 7088) Wexford MS 106 01:27:00 01:27:06
269 Stephanie Bergin (No. 1645) Laois FS 15 01:28:16 01:28:22
274 Liam Mc Fadden (No. 7341) MS 130 01:28:23 01:28:29
419 William Greensmyth (No. 7365) MS 199 01:30:54 01:31:20
436 Orla Jordan (No. 694) Dublin F35 5 01:31:26 01:31:33
507 Hugh Kearney (No. 6243) Dublin MS 235 01:32:29 01:32:58
530 Eoin O’Brien (No. 5807) Dublin MS 247 01:33:05 01:33:32
863 Dave Clarke (No. 2297) Dublin MS 419 01:37:52 01:38:20
1326 Stephen Willoughby (No. 3284) Dublin M45 70 01:42:24 01:42:53
1336 Louise Bruton (No. 599) Dublin F35 36 01:42:55 01:43:03
1404 Tara Quirke (No. 5947) Dublin F35 38 01:42:51 01:43:42
1472 Anne Sweeney (No. 3235) Dublin F40 24 01:43:26 01:44:17
1502 Sandra Redmond (No. 1851) Dublin FS 110 01:43:46 01:44:32
1704 David Trimble (No. 5460) Dublin M50 46 01:46:02 01:46:17
2224 Caroline Lynch (No. 5872) Dublin F60 1 01:50:10 01:50:56
2295 Aileen Melody (No. 1036) Dublin F45 17 01:51:04 01:51:35
2779 Claire Harrington (No. 1386) Dublin F45 28 01:55:01 01:55:41
3065 Karen O’Connor (No. 1218) Dublin F35 126 01:57:54 01:58:01
3369 Catherine Gilmore (No. 1041) Dublin F40 90 02:00:11 02:00:50
3890 Michelle Heaton (No. 5349) Dublin FS 592 02:06:21 02:06:47
5335 Jennifer Maher (No. 1035) F35 355 02:44:39 02:45:37
Report by
Jakub
