by Dundrum AC
The County Masters Cross Country Championships was held on Sunday, 19th November in Fethard. It was a nice day for running in generally good ground. The location is a picturesque course combining running through a stubble tillage field, along the bank of a river on clay path, through grass fields, through wooded groves, up and down clay banks and finally up a tree lined passageway with tree trunks to hurdle over a 2km lap. It was a superb challenge on perfect dry underfoot conditions. An excellent cross country test. We had 9 athletes competing. In the womens race over 4km we had 5 athletes running. Dymphna Ryan won the overall race and the Gold O40. Next we had 5th Catherine Fogarty who won the Gold O45, 17th Karen Coughlan, 19th Emily Leahy and 25th Mairead Julian who won the Bronze O50. Dymphna, Catherine and Karen won Silver in the O35 team event. In the men's race over 7km we had 4 athletes running. First home for the club was 3rd Barry Hartnett and won the Silver O40. Next, was 22nd Jim Halley, 23rd Richard Bresnen and 26th Michael Ryan and the team placed 6th.