This years race was won by Sean McGrath of East Cork AC. In the womens race, Lizzie Lee of Leevale AC won in a new course record time of 27:33. Just to show how much Lizzie has improved over the last few years, these are her times.....2009 = 29:13, 2010 = 28:49, 2011 = 28:53 and 2012 = 28:36.
As well as a course record Lizzie Lee's 27:33 is now the equal fastest time by a woman in any of the four races in the Ballycotton Series over the years. She shares the distinction with one Sonia O'Sullivan from Shanagarry 2001!
1 25:51 MCGRATH, Sean East Cork AC M 05:10.1 1 1
2 25:57 HARTY, Michael East Cork AC M 05:11.3 2 2
3 26:47 MEADE, John St. Finbarrs AC M 05:21.3 3 3
12 27:33 LEE, Lizzie Leevale AC F 05:30.5 504 12
54 30:42 LEONARD, Helen Leevale AC F40 06:08.3 303 54
56 30:44 REGAN, Maura Eagle AC F35 06:08.7 301 56
The full results can be seen HERE
Photos....
1) Gearoid O'Laoi has a large gallery HERE
2) Alan Bannon has a gallery HERE
The winner of the mens section of the series was Sean McGrath of East Cork AC. His times for the four races were remarkably consistent...25:53, 25:46, 25:50 and 25:51.
The winner of the womens section was Maura Regan of Eagle AC. Maura's four times were 32:06, 31:43, 31:23 and 30:44. The time for the last race was a new personal best time for Maura by about 22 seconds.
For the men, the time cut off for the top 50 was an average of 32:38 which equals 6:32 per mile for each race.
For the women, the time cut off for the top 20 was an average of 38:00 which equals 7:36 per mile for each race.
The overall series results were compiled by John Robinson of Mallow AC and can be seen HERE
8 comments:
21 is down as pat barry should be pat maher
Well done to John Walshe and all at Ballycotton Running.. Great series of races again. Such well organised races every year. A big thank you to the organisers.
Cant agree more. A big shout out to the organisers.No rubbish attached to these races just great quality races with good quality runners and well organised every time.
Link to overall results not working lads
Just checked the link to the overall results....seems to be working fine. I can see people are visiting the page and looking at it.
the age profile is getting higher all the time so I assume it's the same runners all the time over the last few years running theseries but the times are getting slower
As for the rising times, I'm not so sure that it's due to people getting older.
It could probably be mainly due to...
1) More non-club runners taking part
2) More women taking part.
3) Rising perception that races are open to everyone and not just 'serious' athletes.
There tends to be a large turnover rate in races. While it might seem like the same faces are there from year to year, there are a lot of people coming and going from the sport all the time.
- John Walsh is a legend, cant believe that the race is only about a fiver
- Great graph there john, really tells a story. And really illustrates where the growth in road running has come from: as you say non-club runners running less than 6-min/mile. Excellent graph, really interesting
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