The busy T&F schedule continues  with a host of competitions in all age groups over the last seven days:

Manchester: Sarah Healy was competing at the BMC Series over 1500m in Manchester on Saturday eve and produced another excellent performance lowering her PB by over a second (4.26.12) in very strong competition. Congrats to Sarah on another superb performance.

Graded Meets: Ellen Cheung (800m Irishtown), Pappy Tucker (200m Tallaght) and Jack Moraghan (200/1500m Tallaght & 800m Irishtown) all had excellent performances in the Dublin Graded Meet series (Meets 2 & 3). Congrats to all three athletes.

Pairs Competition (report courtesy of Valerie O’Brien):

The Under 11’s were out in force on Saturday in Irishtown. Despite the horrendous conditions they all showed great resilience and battled the elements to secure a total of 8 Gold Medals and 10 Silver Medals. We had a total of 12 girls paired and 10 boys paired competing across 60metres, 600 metres, Turbo Javelin and Long Jump. Read more

We had a big turn out over the two days at the Leinster Schools in Santry. Congratulations to Natasha Rolland (Mt Anville/ Minor Girls Discus), Kristina O’Connor (Loreto Dalkey/ U16 200m), Robyn O’Brien (Mt Anaville/ Inter 200m) and Sarah Healy (HCK/ Inter 1500m) on fantastic individual titles. Well done to all four girls. Read more

The final results and times are attached… congratulations on your course PB !!  Huge thanks to Sean and Petra for the fantastic timing set-up and recording. Please let Sean know if any questions on the timing (email Sean at irishfit@gmail.com).

There are loads of great photos here – hopefully the link works for everyone. Thanks to our photographers Mark O’Brien, Oisin O’Mir, Derek Martin and Petra McFadden.  You should be able to upload any additional pics you have here so please do so if you can.  Also we would love to make a short video collage of some of the pics – so if anyone does this for a hobby or would be interested helping out on this please let me know.

Special thanks to all the volunteers for making this event happen and to everyone who ran today and made it such a fantastic event both to run in and to watch.

Go Team BAC !!

RESULTS

Congratulations to Sarah Healy who achieved the European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF) qualifying time at the Irish Milers Club (IMC) meet in Greystones over the weekend. Sarah finished 5^th in the 1500m A race in a time of 4.28.71 which was comfortably inside the standard for this event which takes place in July in Hungary. 

We had a big turn out over the last few days at the East Leinster Schools in Santry. Below are the provisional results:

Minor Girls: Sarah O’Brien, Beth Carty and Sophie Metchette (all Mt Anville) were part of the winning 4 x 100 relay whilst Natasha Rolland (Mt Anville), Cara Brady (Loreto) and Lucy Schwer (Holy Child Killiney) all had a fine showings over the two days. Read more