Midleton, Bweeng, T&F and Pfizer Results

The busy racing schedule continues into early May and there was a good showing from Leevale runners in Midleton last Thursday for the popular 5 mile race. Andrea Bickerdike led the way with a 2nd place finish in the women’s race with 3 of the men also running in the top 10. 

Midleton 5 Mile Results / 04 May 2017 / 5 miles Road / Full Results

	Name	Distance	Time	Age Grade	Pace (mile)	Pos.
1	Andrew Sheehan	Male  Senior		79.84%		4
2	Mark Walsh	Male  Senior		78.61%		5
3	James Grufferty	Male  Senior		77.05%		9
4	Andrea Bickerdike	Female  Senior		79.56%		2
5	Loic Garel	Male  Senior		69.59%		43
6	Dave Hobbs	Male  Senior		61.49%		140
7	Ciaran Desmond (M55)	Male  50-54		62.26%		318
8	Batt Kearney	Male  55-59		60.91%		399

On Saturday it was all about track at the 50th anniversary of the Leevale T&F event in CIT. Sinead O’Connor and Niamh Roe took silver and bronze respectively in the women’s 3k while there were plenty of good performances by the men in the 3k with Tim Crowley first home for the club running a 9:31 PB. 

Moving into the shorter distances, Phil Crowley took the win in the men’s 1500m while in the men’s 800m, Matt Murnane ran sub 2 minutes to win with Tommy Connolly coming in 2nd. In the women’s 800m, Louise Shanahan was 2nd with Carol Finn not far behind in 3rd. 

Leevale T&F 3k Results / 06 May 2017 / 3000m Track / Full Results

	Name	Distance	Time	Age Grade	Pace (mile)	Pos.
1	Tim Crowley	Male  Senior		76.94%		5
2	James Mintern	Male  Senior		76.03%		6
3	Michael Cremin	Male  35-39		78.86%		7
4	Andrew Hobbs	Male  Senior		74.18%		8
5	Sinead O Connor	Female  Senior		80.86%		2
6	Niamh Roe	Female  Senior		79.58%		3
7	Ruairi Kennedy	Male  Senior		67.44%		9

Leevale T&F 1500m Results / 06 May 2017 / 1500m Track / Full Results

	Name	Distance	Time	Age Grade	Pace (mile)	Pos.
1	Philip Crowley	Male  Senior		80.63%		1
2	Heywood Richardson	Male  Senior		75.92%		4
3	Robbie Mulhall	Male  Senior		75.21%		6

Leevale T&F 800m Results / 06 May 2017 / 800m Track / Full Results

	Name	Distance	Time	Age Grade	Pace (mile)	Pos.
1	Matt Murnane	Male  Senior		85.13%		1
2	Tommy Connolly	Male  Junior		103.51%		2
3	Alan O Donovan	Male  Junior		102.04%		4
4	Ben Smith	Male  Junior		100.78%		5
5	Abdi Mohamed	Male  Junior		99.46%		7
6	TJ Hogan	Male  Junior		98.92%		8
7	Jack O Connor	Male  Junior		95.03%		9
8	Louise Shanahan	Female  Junior		101.58%		2
9	Carol Finn	Female  Senior		83.04%		3

On Sunday, far away from the track, we had Donal Coakley and John O’Connell tackling the dirt trails of Spain in the questionably measured but undeniably hilly Alfaranate half marathon. Donal took 3rd overall and John 2nd in M35 category. The lads won a well deserved bag of chickpeas each. 

Alfaranate Half Marathon Results / 06 May 2017 / 1/2 Marathon Trail

	Name	Distance	Time	Age Grade	Pace (mile)	Pos.
1	Donal Coakley	Male  Senior		71.11%		3
2	John O Connell	Male  35-39		71.15%		5

Also on Sunday it was back to the roads of Cork in a sunny Bweeng where Leevale once again represented in large numbers. There were 2 races on the day with both Eric Curran and Carol Finn having very strong runs in the 10k making it a double win for Leevale.

Bweeng 10k Results / 07 May 2017 / 10k Road / Full Results

	Name	Distance	Time	Age Grade	Pace (mile)	Pos.
1	Eric Curran	Male  Senior		82.80%		1
2	Alfie Davis	Male  40-44		78.81%		5
3	Ian O Leary	Male  45-49		81.61%		6
4	Dan O Sullivan	Male  Senior		71.47%		8
5	Carol Finn	Female  Senior		77.74%		1
6	David O Mahony	Male  Senior		67.27%		23
7	John Twomey	Male  Senior		60.13%		44
8	Batt Kearney	Male  55-59		54.34%		194

In the 5k race, Niamh Roe fresh from her 3k the previous day had a good battle in the women’s emerging victorious while in the men’s race, Tim Twomey narrowly missed out on making it a Leevale clean sweep coming home in 2nd with Conor McCauley just behind in 3rd.

Bweeng 5k Results / 07 May 2017 / 5k Road / Full Results

	Name	Distance	Time	Age Grade	Pace (mile)	Pos.
1	Tim Twomey	Male  35-39		86.56%		2
2	Conor McCauley	Male  Senior		84.32%		3
3	Niamh Roe	Female  Senior		82.96%		1
4	Garry Noonan	Male  Senior		69.20%		23

On the same day in Tullamore we had Michelle Kenny taking 2nd place in the 3rd of the 5k race series, just seconds behind Pauline Curley.

Tullamore 5k Results / 07 May 2017 / 5k Road / Full Results

	Name	Distance	Time	Age Grade	Pace (mile)	Pos.
1	Michelle Kenny	Female  35-39		83.52%		2

This week the main event was in Ringaskiddy on Wednesday for the BHAA Pfizer 6 mile and we had 2 Leevale athletes in the top 5 with Donal Coakley and Brian Hegarty coming in 4th and 5th. 

BHAA Pfizer Results / 10 May 2017 / 6 mile Road / Full Results

	Name	Distance	Time	Age Grade	Pace (mile)	Pos.
1	Donal Coakley	Male  Senior		76.00%		4
2	Brian Hegarty	Male  Senior		75.41%		5
3	Michael Brennan	Male  45-49		69.21%		64
4	Batt Kearney	Male  55-59		58.20%		317