Monday, November 30, 2009

Munster Masters XC

The club has a new Munster Masters XC champion with Maurice Tobin winning his age category that is an extremely good achievement for Maurice and well done to him. The Munster Masters XC was held yesterday in County Tipperary. Also competing yesterday in the mens section was Brian O'Connor who came in 12th place in a high quality field.

Representing the ladies was Clo Fitzgibbon and Joan Ennis. Again the standard was very high in the ladies section. Clo managed 9th in her age category and Joan came home in 7th in her age category.

Well done to all.

Saturday, November 28, 2009

European Cross Country

The club have organised a bus to go to the European Cross Country championships which are being held on the 13th of December in Dublin. Kids will be free and adults will be charged €10. The bus will leave at 7am at the latest as the first race begins at 10am. Anyone interested is asked to contact Clo Fitzgibbon on 0863162145

Friday, November 27, 2009

AGM

The AGM will be held on Jan 7th 2010 in Fermoy Pitch and Putt club @ 8.15pm

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Results + Photos from the XC in Bandon

The Intermediate and Masters XC took place in Bandon last Sunday on a very nice day. Due to the heavy rain leading up to the race it left the course very soft, but Grange/Fermoy AC performed very well.

In the mens team event Grange/Fermoy came in 5th place with Brian O'Connor, Maurice Tobin, John Griffin and Olan Barrett being the scoring runners coming home in 14th, 19th, 26th and 31st place respectively. Maurice Tobin also managed to win his age category.

In the ladies event Grange/Fermoy performed extremley well. In the Team event they came in a very good 3rd place with Clotilde Fitzgibbon, Joan Ennis and Siobhan Steele being the three members of the team. They ended up in 5th,9th and 12th place respectively. Joan Ennis came second in her age category with Siobhan Steele coming in 3rd place in her age category.

Here are the pictures of the Grange/Fermoy AC athlethes who took part in the XC in Bandon last Sunday.







Tuesday, November 10, 2009

East Cork Winter Series

The second race of the winter series was held tonight which was a very nice evening for a run. 4 Grange/Fermoy AC athlethes tested themselves over the 3km course. There was a big turnout of 185 competitors.

James McCarthy of East Cork AC won the race in a time of 9.05.
Leading home the Grange/Fermoy team was Darren Flynn in a time of 11.30 which was good enough for 28th place. Directly behind Darren was Olan Barrett in a time of 11.30 for 29th place. Brendan O'Mahony ran a time of 11.47 for 45th place and John Griffin was next in a time of 11.55 for 49th place.

Monday, November 9, 2009

Lisgoold 5km




The Lisgoold race was held on Sunday last and it must be said one of the toughest 5km routes that you will come across. First Mile was all uphill, but still an enjoyable race.

The winner of the race was Ravis Zakis from the West Waterford club in a time of 16.10

There was a turnout of 125 competitors and out of that there was 4 from Grange/Fermoy AC.

Leading home the charge was Brian O'Connor who came in 16th place with a time of 19.42. Next we had Maurice Tobin in 19th place with a time of 20.11, this was good enough to win the O50 age category. Olan Barrett came home in 25th place with a time of 20.51. Siobhan Steele came home in a time of 24.39 which was good enough 64th place and the first female over 35 well done to all.

Friday, November 6, 2009

Defibrillator Course

Anyone interested in doing a defibrillator course on next Wednesday and Thursday is asked to contact Brian Regan on 086-3898462 asap.

Thursday, November 5, 2009

Lisgoold 5km

The Lisgoold 5km race is being held this Sunday 8th November at 11am. Entries are being taken from 10am in the Lisgoold Gaa Ground. Here is the flyer about the Race: http://homepage.eircom.net/~corkrunning/Race_Flyers/Lisgoold_5k_08_Nov_2009.pdf

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Message From Maurice Tobin

Maurice Tobin would like to say a big thank you to everybody who turned up for his surprise 60th birthday which was held on the 31st of October in the Fermoy Pitch and Putt Club.

Maurice was both shocked and privileged by the amount of people who turned up to wish him a happy birthday. He would especially like to thank everyone who sent him cards and presents.

Sunday, November 1, 2009

Upcoming Races

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 8TH – LISGOOLD GAA 5K – 10AM

TUESDAY NOVEMBER 10TH – EAST CORK 3K – MIDLETON – 7.30PM

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 15TH – BRICKEY 5 MILE RACE – DUNGARVAN -11AM

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 22ND – INNISCARRA 4 MILE – 11.30AM