NORTH BELFAST HARRIERS JUNIOR REPORT 21-27th february 2022

By Dermot Coy Race Report February 28, 2022

The main highlight for the juniors this week was the East Coast AC Cross Country event at Larne (much more on that later).

Saturday started with the 5K Waterworks Parkrun. We had 3 junior Harriers taking part. Congratulation to the Steeles and Eva and well done on the PBs for Oisín and Eva:

86	Oisin STEELE 5 parkruns	Male 71/116	JM11-14 53.64% age grade	North Belfast Harriers	27:02 New PB!
87	Orán STEELE 33 parkruns \|	Male 72/116	JM11-14 53.57% age grade	North Belfast Harriers	27:04 PB 24:27

103	Senan STEELE 3 parkruns	Male 80/116	JM11-14 53.62% age grade	North Belfast Harriers	28:32 PB 28:08
141	Eva MCLOUGHLIN	Female 34/59	JW10 59.67% age grade	North Belfast Harriers	31:27 New PB!

Max2K — At the 2K Waterworks Junior Parkrun, we had great efforts from Erin McAuley, Niall McAuley and Eimear O’Regan who each got PBs. Max Reid not only came first with an unbelievable time, but broke the all-time Waterworks Junior Parkrun previous record. This is the fastest time ever set for this event and it could stand for a very long time to come (unless, of course, Max beats it himself before he turns 15)! Well done Max – fantastic running.

Max REID

Male1/19

JM11-14 80.70% age grade

North Belfast Harriers

06:26

4	Erin MCAULEY	Female2/13	JW11-14 64.43% age grade	North Belfast Harriers	09:21 PB 09:00
6	Niall MCAULEY	Male3/19	JM10 59.86% age grade	North Belfast Harriers	09:39 PB 08:35
8	Eimear O’REGAN	Female4/13	JW11-14 58.87% age grade	North Belfast Harriers	10:14 PB 09:21

Later that morning, we had a bunch of juniors travel up to Larne for the East Coast AC XC. The wind really picked up and it almost felt gale-forced at times with a very bitter chill in the air.

First off was young Fintan Leheny in the Boys’ Mini race. Fintan did a great run and from the photo below was very pleased.

Fintan Leheny

2016

North Belfast Harriers

4.45

Next up for NBH, was the Girls’ Minor run. We had 3 great runners taking part: Rachel Curry, Eimear Coy and Phoebe Reid. You all did great – well done girls!

6	158	Eimear Coy	2012	F	North Belfast Harriers	8.31
7	72	Phoebe Reid	2013	F	North Belfast Harriers	8.51
8	79	Rachel Curry	2012	F	North Belfast Harriers	8.53

Ethan Wiltshire was the only Harrier taking part in the Minor Boys’ race and he ran fantastically, taking second place and earning a well deserved podium finish. Well done Ethan.

154

Ethan Wiltshire

2012

North Belfast Harriers

7.07

The Girls’ Junior race came next with all eyes on Cassie Curran. Cassie ran a great race and along with her other superb performances in the same series picked up the top overall trophy prize. Excellent Cassie!

112

Cassie Curran

2011

North Belfast Harriers

8.26

The Boys’ Junior race had Cormac Leheny, Alex Reid and Thomas Coy taking part. The 3 P7 boys did a great race, holding their own with some older, secondary school boys in their race. Well done to all 3 of you.

6	64	Cormac Leheny	2011	M	North Belfast Harriers	7.43
9	157	Thomas Coy	2010	M	North Belfast Harriers	8.05
12	71	Alex Reid	2010	M	North Belfast Harriers	8.29

Well done to all of our juniors for training and competing this week.