The weekends races mostly involved mud, trails and loads more mud. With a night trail race on Friday evening, the latest round of the NI Athletics XC 2017/18 League and a trail race; as well as parkruns there were plenty of Harriers out running in the fresh January air.
The main focus for the club was the rescheduled Mighty Oaks XC hosted by Acorns AC at the Mid Ulster Sports Arena in Cookstown. Raced over an undulating one mile course with plenty of energy sapping mud and the infamous “Acorn Hill” a large squad of Harriers had a successful trip to the Tyrone town.
26extreme Night Trail 10k Castlewellan
Friday night saw the first of a series of three 10k night tail races organised by 26extreme. The Castlewellan race had also been rescheduled, but that didn’t stop Helen Weir from completing the two lap course in 49:47 finishing 5th lady and 34th overall.
Mighty Oaks XC (Round 6 – Athletics NI XC League)
North Belfast Harriers re-established there acquaintance with cross-country in force with maximum points scored in the latest round of the league. There were enough Harriers running in the Men’s race to field 5 scoring teams. In the 4 mile race they were lead home by Mark McKinstry who racing here for the first time, secured victory in 24:45. Eamon White came through as strong as ever to place an important 4th in 25:25, and with Andrew Considine 26:29 and Neil Carty 27:00 finishing 15th and 18th; it was enough to win the men’s team event by 1 point. Joe Malone placed inside the top 25 with 27:46 for 23rd.
Maximum participation points were also secured by all those who travelled and raced.
1 Mark McKinstry 00:24:45
4 Eamon White 00:25:25
15 Andrew Considine 00:26:49
18 Neil Carty 00:27:00
23 Joe Malone 00:27:46
41 Laurence Johnston 00:29:14
44 David Curran 00:29:43
53 Colin Willetts 00:30:13
59 Simon Reeve 00:30:37
70 Ray Cameron 00:31:24
87 Paddy McCambridge 00:32:21
96 Eamon McCambridge 00:33:14
99 Joe Smith 00:33:26
104 Colin Simpson 00:34:16
116 Greg McClure 00:36:25
119 Ciaran Browne 00:37:01
120 Gary Blythe 00:37:06
123 Lance Breen 00:37:41
125 Matthew Carleton 00:37:53
132 Lyle Carleton 00:38:43
133 Acvaro Usero 00:39:00
140 Gerry Anderson 00:41:02
142 Philip McIlwrath 00:43:01
North Belfast Harriers were also represented in the Ladies 3 mile race.
26 Una McConnell 00:25:45
39 Sandy Carr 00:26:34
40 Ita McCambridge 00:26:45
78 Elaine Holmes 00:30:03
101 Eadaoin Donaldson 00:34:42
parkrun Results:
There were three new PBs this week and one of them whilst completing a milestone 100th park run.
13/01/2018
Antrim
49th Jack MCCREADY 24:32 – New PB
Citypark
8th Gerard MCNAMARA 20:01
Ormeau
3rd Marc JENNINGS 17:51
4th Piaras MCSHANE 18:18 – New PB
21st Sean MCSHANE 19:58
36th Mark SHIELDS 21:18
114th Clare HOLMES 24:14 – New PB – 100th Parkun
Queens
28th Damien GILL 22:32
55th John LAVERY 24:49
Waterworks
3rd Matthew LAVERY 18:23
4th Stephen WALKER 18:44
5th John SLOAN 18:48
6th Simon REEVE 19:00
14th John Gerard MURPHY 20:38
16th Drew KNOX 21:01
28th Jack CARBERRY 22:34
36th Terence MCATAMNEY 23:06
37th Tony REID 23:09
39th Siobhan DRAIN 23:14
40th Joe DRAIN 23:15
52nd Daniel O’CALLAGHAN 24:43
67th Maurice PALMER 25:22
94th Marian HAYES 26:40
99th Joanne MCALLISTER 26:54
100th Gordon GLENN 26:55
114th Jim CLINTON 27:47
120th Thomas Peter NORTON 27:53
129th Philip MCILWRATH 28:18
130th Thomas MCKINSTRY 28:20
144th Joanne MCGURK 29:12
145th Katrina MCAULEY 29:15
150th Clare O’HARA 29:28
154th Heather WILSON 29:38
172nd Trisha MURRAY 30:58
173rd Sandy CARR 30:59
179th Gabrielle MALLAGHAN 31:33
180th Margaret STEPHENS 31:36
208th James TOAL 35:05
229th Clare MORGAN 37:15
233rd Sinead TOAL 38:51
241st Rosy RYAN 45:46
13/01/2018
Bushy Dublin
16th Matt SHIELDS 21:00
