Results of the Cork BHAA 'Murphy Memorial' Inniscarra 4 Mile Road Race - Sun 23rd Nov 2008

That was one tough course! I remember that when we on the 1st hill after the start, I could hear someone on a PA system in the lead car saying 'It levels out after the next corner'. Sure enough, the corner came, the road levelled off and I thought 'That wasn't so bad'. I had forgotten though that a few corners later, it goes up again! Looking at a map, there is around 90 metres of ascent in this race which over 4 miles is a fair bit.

Yet for as hard as it was, it must be one of the nicest courses on the Cork BHAA calendar. Nice quiet country roads with no traffic.....a perfect location for a road race.

As always, this was another well organised race by the Cork BHAA. Somewhere in the region of 258 took part which is slightly up on last years figure of 249.

Results.......The full results are available HERE.

Here are the category results....

MURPHY MEMORIAL INNISCARRA COMMUNITY CENTRE 4-Mile Road Race (Cork BHAA).
1 R Zakis (GSK) 21:24; 2 T Murphy (Carrig Court) 22:03; 3 T O’Connor (Duhallow Business) 22:04; 4 S Simcox (Simcox Training) 22:11; 5 C O’Donovan (O’Donovan) 22:14; 6 K Wilmot (Bandon Tyres) 22:44; 7 L Reale (temp) 22:53; 8 B Hegarty (Pfizer-Little Island) 23:02; 9 J Meade (temp-reg) 23:07: 10 G Waugh (FAS) 23:10.

M40: F Wall (Sallyport) 24:13; 2 C McMahon (Phoenix Clinic) 24:48; 3 J Desmond (Horman Elect) 24:58.

M45: 1 M Bickerdike (Blarney School of Motoring) 23:33; 2 D Carroll (Blarney Woollen Mills) 24:54; 3 M Bulman (Army) 26:27.

M50: 1 J O’Driscoll (FAS) 26:18; 2 J Murphy (Cork Co Co) 28:18; 3 D Shine (Duhallow Business) 28:39.

M55: 1 P Twomey (UCC) 26:13; 2 D Kennedy (DMP) 27:01; 3 M Tobin (Carrig Court) 27:13.

M60: 1 P Gyves (ITW-Hi Cone) 29:00; 2 J Murray (HSE) 30:10.

Team: (Grade A) 1 Carrig Court 30; 2 Simcox Training 93; 3 Pfizer-Little Island 189. (Grade B) 1 Army 92; 2 UCC 126; 3 IPS 150. (Grade C) 1 ESB 212; 2 Blarney Woollen Mills 220; 3 Denis Cronin Elect 240.

Women: 1 C McCarthy (Ulster Bank) 25:09; 2 M Sweeney (Private Hospitals, F45) 25:46; 3 F Kirwan (Sensory Labs, F40) 27:03; 4 M Dinan (Leasing Co, F40) 27:04; 5 G Crowley (temp-reg) 28:27; 6 C Leahy (Musgrave) 28:36; 7 G Cotter (UCC) 29:04; 8 B Liston (Leisure World) 29:12; 9 C Buckley (temp-reg) 29:22; 10 N Goulding (temp-reg) 29:23.

F40: 3 G O’Shea (Cork Co Co) 29:29.

F45: 1 A Murphy (UCC) 30:21; 2 M Murphy (HSE) 30:39.

F50: 1 M Lyons (Flextronics) 34:45.

F55: 1 K O’Connell (Midleton News) 39:54.

F60: 1 M Dunne (Carrig Court) 36:12.

Team: (Grade A) 1 Musgrave 12; 2 Sensory Labs 16. (Grade B) 1 BoI 45; 2 Midleton News 51.

(..........with thanks to John Walshe of Ballycotton Running Promotions for the above results)