On Friday evening
Seapark’s Bobbie Irvine, Gillian Barnhill and Gary Connolly undertook an epic 24 hour endurance event, the Energia 24 hour race held at The Mary Peters Track.
This annual event challenges athletes to cover the longest distance in 24 hours. Bobbie Irvine came 14th out of 52 individuals covering a distance of 109.4 miles (440 laps). Gillian Barnhill ran 101.2 miles (407 laps) and was third lady. Gary Connolly ran 77 miles (310 laps).
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7 out of 7 in the Pure Marathon Series for Gillian Strudwick at Dervock.
On Saturday Richard Hethrington ran the Dervock Half Marathon along with Caroline Salters and Gillian Strudwick. This proved to be a hilly and challenging
course for the athletes.
Results:
Richard Hetherington – 1hr 42mins
Caroline Salters – 1hr 52mins
Gillian Strudwick – 2hrs 2mins
407 laps of the Mary Peter’s Track secured 3rd female place for Gillian in the Energia 24 hour run which took place 17th & 18th July. This result also gave Gillian 3rd place in the AAI National 24 Hour championships. Gillian’s epic performance resulted in 101.2 miles (162,800 metres) being covered in the 24 hour period.
Well done Gillian!
On Sunday 12 July Seapark AC athletes took park in the Endurance Junkie 10k and Half marathon at Titanic Quarter, Belfast.
Jonathan Bell and Sara Johnston represented Seapark over the 10K discipline finishing in times of 47 mins and 59 mins respectively.
Over the half marathon distance, Ian Clelland continued his impressive form, narrowly missing out on a top 10 finish with a time of 1.24. Gillian Cordner,
endurance specialist, also finished high in the rankings with a time of 1.33. Glenda Murray, completed her first ever half marathon race, finishing strongly in a time
of 2.14. Other Seaparkers finished as follows, Colin McCrum, 1.41, Gary Connolly, 1.43, Neill Harper, 1.55, Phil Poag, 1.56 and Karen Poag who paced Jacqui
Coghlan around her first half in a time of 2.03.
Race Report: Angela McCormick
Gillian Barnhill from Seapark AC completed the Marathon Club of Ireland’s Phoenix Park Marathon in Dublin on Saturday 4th of July. This was Gillian’s 115th marathon!
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Pure Running HM Series update (by ChampionChip Ireland):
Six of the ten races in the Pure Running Half Marathon Series have taken place and a record number of athletes are vying for the valuable prizes across all the male and female categories.
A total of seventeen hardy runners, of which three are ladies, have completed all six to date and are on target for the special garment if they get round all ten this year.
The ladies who have completed all six races to date include our own Gillian Strudwick, pictured above at Larne Half in March this year.
Total entries to the Series races to date are just shy of 7,000 and the DUNE Half Marathon, Larne Half Marathon, Lisburn Half Marathon and Ards Half Marathon were all up on last year so the aim of over 8,000 entrants again should be achievable in 2015.
The next races are as follows:
Saturday 18th July 2015 – Kennedy Jane McArthur Dervock Half Marathon
Sunday 2nd August 2015 – Cookstown Half Marathon
Saturday 15th August 2015 – Groomsport Half Marathon
Saturday 22nd August 2015 – Born 2 Run Dambusters Half Marathon
An up to date version of the current overall Pure Running Half Marathon Series rankings can be found HERE.
June was a buy month for Seaparkers at parkrun.
Ian Clelland, running very consistently at present, secured 1st male at Carrickfergus on two consecutive weeks 20th & 26th, Ian Hunter took 3rd male on his June parkrun at Carrickfergus in a PB time of 19:36. The Carrickfergus team welcomed Charlie McCormick back after his injury earlier in the year. Charlie put in a strong comeback performance on 27th June. Warren Cosgrove continued to improve on his parkrun time and bagged himself 29:33 on 27th June. After a long spell in the desert Bobbie Irvine decided to run at home in June, completing 3 runs at Carrickfergus. Other members attending Carrickfergus parkrun in June included Mark Welsh, Lynda Shannon, Gareth Hamill, Phil Poag and Tony Barclay.
Volunteers at parkrun 2nd June – me thinks they need more work!
parkrun tourism!
Lots of travelling going on as well in June to Portrush. – Ian Cleland on 13th June who took 4th place at Portrush. Gillian Barnhill dropped in to Carigavon on her way to a much longer run on that day (28th) and managed to secure 3rd lady! Robert Murray completed all 4 parkruns in June, one in Carrickfergus and the others at Antrim, Queen’s and Victoria. Colin McCrumm also completed all 4 parkruns in June with two away runs at Queen’s and Victoria. Karen McMaster chalked up her 50th parkrun in June and completed all 4 parkruns at 4 different locations! – Antrim, Carrickfergus, Queen’s and Waterworks. All that travelling Karen 🙂 Ruth Hawkins joined the tourist trail and managed her fastest parkrun time yet (24:55) in Antrim and Sara Johnston got her best time away from home as well with 28:47 at Portrush. Trevor Lamb – we missed you! – you did both your June runs at Ormeau. Finally Gavin Irvine completed his June run at Kirkcaldy and The Rice family went on a wee parkrun trip to Queen’s.
30 members turned out on the hottest night of the year so far for the annual Club 5 mile Handicap race at Sloefield Road / Trooper’s Lane.
Top finishes from Ellie, Robert, Peter, David and Caroline. Well done everyone!
Great results at Ards Half for Seapark runners.
Male:
Colin McCrum – 1:42:47 (PB)
Robert Murrsay 1:44:49
Mark Welsh 1:46:01
Gary Connolly 1:46:03
Phil Poag 1:58:58
Female:
Caroline Salters 1:46:00
Gillian Strudwick 1:57:35
Alison Welsh 2:13:28
