COUNTY NOVICE ROAD CHAMPIONSHIPS
The 2025 road championships kicked off with the County Novice Road Championships on Sunday, March 9th in Dualla. DBB AC made its debut in hosting a championship race and offered a new location on a lovely sunny spring day. We had 13 athletes competing. In the women's race over 3km we had 4 compete. First home for the club and just missing out on a podium position was 4th Mary Keane in a fast time of 11.50. She was followed by 5th Catherine Fogarty 12:05, 7th Emily Leahy 12:17 and 18th Mairead Julian 13:47. The women had a great race to win Silver in the team event. We had 9 men compete over 6km. First home for the club was 30th William Keane 23:30. He was followed by 33rd Richard Bresnen 23:46, 41st Paudie Coen 24:19, 44th Wayne Bargary 24:27, 50th John Donnelly 25:03, 52nd Jim Halley 25:12, 54th Tommy Byrnes 25:31, 60th Aaron Touhy 26:43 and 67th Alan O'Brien 28:03. Great running by all.
KINVARA ROCK AND ROAD HALF MARATHON
The Kinvara Rock and Road Half Marathon was held on Saturday, 1st March in Kinvara, Co Galway. Barry Hartnett ran a superb race to win in a fast 1:12:05 continuing his fine form.
MILFORD 10K
The Milford 10k was held on Sunday, 16th February in Co Limerick and was in aid of Milford Care Centre. Catherine Fogarty had a great race to be 2nd Woman in 42:17. A special well done to Lily O'Brien and Saoirse Burke on completing their first 10km.
MUNSTER INDOOR TRACK AND FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPS
The Munster Indoor Track and Field Championships were held on Saturday, March 1st in Nenagh. Dymphna Ryan competed in the Women's 3,000m. She was the overall winner with Junior, Senior and Masters running together. She set a new O40 record of 10:13.82. A huge well done and congratulations.
NENAGH HALF MARATHON AND 10K
The Nenagh Half Marathon and 10k was held on Sunday, 23rd February on an extremely wet day. In the 10k race we had two athletes competing. Mairead Julian in 44:04 and was 1st Woman O50 and Alan O'Brien 50:00. In the Half Marathon we had two take on the 21km. Linda Grogan had a great race to be 3rd Woman in 1:30:24 and John Barry 1:57:04.
CLONMEL TRAIL HALF MARATHON
The Clonmel Trail Half Marathon was held on Saturday, 8th March. It was a gruelling 21.6km with 900m of climbing. Barry Hartnett was 2nd in 1:37:39 and was 1st O40. From this race Barry has qualified for the Irish Mountain Running Associations Senior Men's team. A huge congratulations to Barry and a well deserved place on the team.
ADARE 10K
The very popular Adare 10k was held on Sunday, 23rd February in Co Limerick. First home for the club was John O'Brien 49:19, he was followed by PJ Collins in 1:01:06. We had a number of Fit4Life members run as well with Patricia Moloney, Caitriona Armstrong, Mary Ann McHugh, Claire Ryan, Emma O'Dell and Mary Ferncombe .