Connacht Novice XC Race?

Seres

anyone know when and where the next connacht novice Xc race is ?
is connacht the first round entry or do they have county races ?

brutes

Galway County cc champs sun 4/10/09 Tuam.. Palace grounds ( provisional but have not heard to the contrary). think its 1pm for registration, races a bit later
no idea if other counties hold them

Connachts etc - see below, robbed from athenryac sorry folks!!


19th September Connaught Schools Combined Events Dangan Galway
24th October Connaught Primary Schools CC Hazelwood Sligo
31st Oct Connaught Even ages Novice/Intermediate/Masters CC Ballinamore Co Leitrim
8th Nov Hollymount Road Race
7/8th Nov Connaught Uneven ages CC Galway Venue/Date TBD
22nd Nov National Even ages and Inter clubs CC
5th December National Uneven ages and Novice CC


You can run either , no prequalification standards afaik

pgibbo

Green horn question here - what distances are the CC events for Novices?

Seres

pgibbo wrote: »

Green horn question here - what distances are the CC events for Novices?

racing flat posted down in the main forum that 4k for Novice and intermed and 8k for senior , not sure if its the same for male or female , does anyone know ?

dna_leri

Seres wrote: »

anyone know when and where the next connacht novice Xc race is ?
is connacht the first round entry or do they have county races ?

Definitely no pre-qualification and unfortunately very low turn-out. AFAIK last year there were 6 competitors in the Novice Men Connacht XC and 0 (zero, none) in Novice Women. In the senior women, there were 5 women, all from the same club.

XC not in a healthy state in Connacht.

Seres

dna_leri wrote: »

Definitely no pre-qualification and unfortunately very low turn-out. AFAIK last year there were 6 competitors in the Novice Men Connacht XC and 0 (zero, none) in Novice Women. In the senior women, there were 5 women, all from the same club.

XC not in a healthy state in Connacht.

i remember even running in xc in my teens , turnout for ladies was very bad , very disappointing , really loved xc races , dont know if i will bother now .

pgibbo

Seres wrote: »

i remember even running in xc in my teens , turnout for ladies was very bad , very disappointing , really loved xc races , dont know if i will bother now .

Maybe you should go along to one and see what the turnout is like. It might re-ignite your passion for XC. Hopefully there will be some other competitors there. Maybe you could get a few from the tri club to go?

brutes

For the Galway county - distances....Senior, intermediate, and novice men will race over 8,000m. Veteran men in the (V1 -V4) group will race over 8,000m. Junior men and veterans in the (V4 and above) group will race over 5,000m.

Senior, intermediate, novice, veteran and junior women will race over 5,000m


At All ireland level mens novice is 6k, intermed is 10k, intercounty senior 10k, interclubs senior 12K!! womens its 3k/4k/8k/8k

Re Connaght cross country it doesnt really fit in with most club runners plans, last year approx 80% of club runners who would run xc were in Dublin for marathon instead, prob be same his year its a aclendar thing

dna_leri

brutes wrote: »

Re Connaght cross country it doesnt really fit in with most club runners plans, last year approx 80% of club runners who would run xc were in Dublin for marathon instead, prob be same his year its a aclendar thing

I think the problems are a bit deeper than a clash with DCM. The senior and junior connachts were held in February last year with just over 20 entrants in total in the 4 races, including 1 from Co Galway. :eek: