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Dublin T & F Championships Day 2

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5th June 2016 – Tallaght

“OH WHAT A DAY!”

Well off I set with John Lawlor, Hugh + Lottie and a lovely car journey it was too. Smooth journey on the M50 and I was surprised when pulling down the window it was a windee down and not electric, cheered me up no end!

It’s the little things isn’t it!

Weather report you ask – one word – glorious!

Now forgive me if I don’t get everyone’s individual performances but it’s safe to say a couple of things were learnt at the end of the day.

1)      Great to see so many athletes putting on a Skerries Vest, all did the club proud

2)      Enjoy, racing is about having fun!

Who did what?  Well my competitors were as follows:

Daphney, Daisy, Ellie, Lorcan, Phillip, Mark, Ben, Josh, Hugh, Conall, Ella, Naomi, Lottie, Ruby, Kerrie and Stephen.

They ran sprints and long distance, all ran well and some even made the finals in Tullamore.

Two lads get a special mention.

 

Conall who literally left everything out on the track, first 800m and I know he will never forget it! Some achievement Conall! Thanks to Conall’s Dad for getting him thru post-race too.

And to Stephen O’Connor who had to hang around the longest for his 3000 metres, finishing 4th to qualify for the Nationals in Tullamore.

Thanks to Tallaght AC, to the parents (the easy bit – cheering), the kids (hard bit – racing) and thanks also to John Lawlor who volunteered to rake the sand pit. Lovely straight lines and no sand castles!

Coach Greg

Dublin T & F Championships Day 1

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3rd June 2016 – Santry

The first part of the juvenile Dublin track championships was held in Santry on Friday evening, the evening was hot as were the races. First up for Skerries AC was our U/10 girls racing over 500m with Shauna, Jessica & Aoise committing 110% and setting the standard for the other Skerries athletes to follow. Our U/10 boys then threw themselves into the race and were not afraid to take it out from the gun.

The temperature continued to rise as did the distances with the race schedule moving on to the boys & girls U/11  to U/13  racing over 600m. Every place was fought for and our athletes did not give an inch as they flew around the track in the blue and white colours of the club.

As the racing programme drew to a close the weather began to cool however with two remaining athletes left to compete at under U/17 & U/18 over 800m the club got its first medal of the championship with Conor in a stacked field taking the silver medal and running a PB to boot!

Well done to all and we wish the best of luck to our athletes competing on Sunday for round two of the championships.

Dublin Graded Meeting 2

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11th May 2016

It was the turn of some of our older athletes to blow the dust off their spikes and race at the Tallaght Track in the 2nd Dublin Graded Meet.  Quite a heavy, still evening, with a few light showers, our athletes rushing home from school/college/work to be there, some forgetting vests in all the excitement.

Orla T set the scene with a very respectable 32.04 in the 200m, a new event for her (and yes we must do some training on the use of starting blocks).

Next on the line was Orla B in the 1500m. Orla took it out from the start, looked strong all the way and set a new pb of 5.03 coming 2nd (off the back of a tough week of exams at college).

Next a battle in the 1500m between Stephen and Keith (along with a few others). Keith (first time at this distance and still getting over the Manchester Marathon) ran a brave and lonely race finishing in a very respectable 4.45, but was just pipped at the post by Stephen, who came 3rd with a time of 4.43.

Finally Conor, who also ran 1500m, with no Skerries team mates to keep him company (although we were all cheering from the sidelines). Conor made it look easy winning the race in 4.29.

I’m sure there’s a lot more to come from these athletes as the season progresses. Thanks to Malachy for the chocolate for the journey home (still not sure about an athletic club consuming so much chocolate). All in all, a great evening.