Alister Cragg to run on Sunday

DaveH

Ive heard a rummor from Two fairly reliable people that Alister Cragg will run on Sunday.
They told me that he was 99% certain of running.

This is interesting. I hope he does run once he runs in the Euro X.

Pherekydes

I'm heading down on Sunday, so I'll be able to confirm on Monday.

Should be a good race. I've heard that SOS is running! Is this true? The men's junior race should be interesting, too. Will the ffrench-O'Carroll twins be in the senior or junior women's race?

Hmmm. Back to McDonagh Barracks for the first time in years!

DaveH

An update on this one!! I know mad time in the Morning.

A pal of mine said he saw Alister running in Santry Demense this afternoon!

Surprised Clonliffe bring him over for Inter-Counties and not inter-club!

French-O'Carroll's will be in the Junior race. Was a good idea to run them in the Dublin senior as they have no competition in Dublin Junior. Also a good point made to me after Dublin Championship...The two girls will still be Juniors when the Euro X comes to Dublin in 2009!!

Heading over to Euro X - Might be watching an Irish man win it!

Pherekydes

DaveH wrote: »

Heading over to Euro X - Might be watching an Irish man win it!

With Mo Farah now out, chances that another African ex-pat might win it: our one.

The twins will be joined by Suzanne Huet to form the nucleus of a very strong junior women's team for the next 2 years!

Rineanna

I agree, we've a great in strength in depth in the middle distance and XC junior category. It's great to see.

Slow coach wrote: »

With Mo Farah now out, chances that another African ex-pat might win it: our one.

Controversial, SlowCoach, very controversial!

As for Sonia, I'm nearly sure she said in an interview that she wanted to try and qualify for the Euro XC this year as her last time in an Irish vest (how many times have we heard that before!Long live Sonia!). She'll have tough competition. I'm not sure how many qualify/go to Toro, but there's Britton, Cullen, Deirdre Byrne, Linda Byrne, Galligan, ands McCambridge to battle with. I'm not sure if McGettigan or Cullen are competing, are they?

Clum

Rineanna wrote: »

I'm not sure how many qualify/go to Toro, but there's Britton, Cullen, Deirdre Byrne, Linda Byrne, Galligan, ands McCambridge to battle with. I'm not sure if McGettigan or Cullen are competing, are they?

Cullen and McGettigan ran the Manchester Thanksgiving Road Race yesterday. Cullen was 2nd lady home, McGettigan 10th.

Martin Fagan also ran, he was 2nd male home, beating last years winner.

Report and video here. Going by Fagan's comments it doesn't look like he'll be running the Euro XC...

ecoli

it will be good seeing cragg run on his native home soil haha only messing ah with rumours flying of who running or not running either way has the prospect of being great day race wise.
Junior mens should also make for good spectacle with O Neill in super shape and fresh off the victory in Tillburg

Rineanna

Clum wrote: »

Going by Fagan's comments it doesn't look like he'll be running the Euro XC...

Read on another forum that he's training for a marathon in January, so it looks like he'll skip the XC.

ecoli

well lads it seems that the rumour was just that and a let down just goes to show regardless what ppl saying ya cant trust it till ya see them line up on the day