2016 Results

Pherekydes

Time to start one for the new year!

Adam McMullen jumped 7.70m in Jordanstown today! Barry Pender jumped 2.26m in Cardiff (previous best: 2.20m).

Great start for those two.

Myles Splitz

COL down to run in the Mile tonight on the new portland track (World Indoors track)

http://gotracktownusa.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/High-Perf-2-Accepted-Entries-2016-01-19.pdf

Myles Splitz

Pherekydes wrote: »

Time to start one for the new year!

Adam McMullen jumped 7.70m in Jordanstown today! Barry Pender jumped 2.26m in Cardiff (previous best: 2.20m).

Great start for those two.

Euro Qualifier for Pender IIRC

tang1

Myles Splitz wrote: »

COL down to run in the Mile tonight on the new portland track (World Indoors track)

http://gotracktownusa.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/High-Perf-2-Accepted-Entries-2016-01-19.pdf

Came 4th in 3.41.41, was won in 3.39.xx.

Pherekydes

Elizabeth Morland scored 4043 pts in the Junior women's section of the National Combined events championships, which, by my reckoning, is a national senior and junior record. She's still only 17.

Chivito550

Pherekydes wrote: »

Elizabeth Morland scored 4043 pts in the Junior women's section of the National Combined events championships, which, by my reckoning, is a national senior and junior record. She's still only 17.

Would that count as a senior record? Are the hurdle heights not different?

Pherekydes

Chivito550 wrote: »

Would that count as a senior record? Are the hurdle heights not different?

Open to correction, but I think the senior and junior women's hurdle heights are the same.

Chivito550

Pherekydes wrote: »

Open to correction, but I think the senior and junior women's hurdle heights are the same.

Great result anyway. This country is in dire need of some multi-eventers. Nice to have a talent like this.

Pherekydes

Just had a look at the early season lists on the European Athletics website and Morland is ranked 1st junior and 3rd senior in the pentathlon. And 4th junior and 19th junior in the Hurdles and HJ respectively! Her hurdles also ranks 7th on the Irish senior all-time indoor hurdles list!

Kudos.

longjump67

Those European lists not hat accurate Sommer Lecky FV 15 jumped 1.80m in Jordanstown not on that list

Sacksian

John Travers ran 8:04.25 for 3000m indoor in Boston last weekend. Aaron Hanlon ran 8:25.17 at the same meet in a different heat.

Sara Treacy and John Coghlan are running the 3000m at the Armory Track Invitational this weekend, with Declan Murray in the 800m. John Travers will be running the mile, where he'll be up against US high school phenomenon Drew Hunter, who ran 7:59.33 for 3000m indoor last weekend, becoming the first high schooler to run under 8 minutes indoor. Might see if I can watch it online and what the schedule is.

Pherekydes

Kevin Batt ran 7:53 for 3k outdoors, down Under. Augurs well for his 5k.

Pherekydes

Mark English opened with 1:47.28 in the B race in Dusseldorf. Decent enough indoors.

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Armory Invitational indoors

Sara Treacy, 9:28 for 3000m.

John Travers ran 4:02 in the mile, good bit off the pace of Chris O Hare but he was involved in a bit of history pretty much pacing Drew Hunter until the last lap to An American HS record of 3:58:25 to beat Alan Webb's old mark.

KielyUnusual

Ciara Mageean 4.08 for 1500 indoors in Karlsruhe. New Irish indoor record. Bodes well for the year ahead.

Stojkovic

Siofra runs 2.03 and shaves a second off the 28 year Villanova indoor 800m record.

KielyUnusual

Stojkovic wrote: »

Siofra runs 2.03 and shaves a second off the 28 year Villanova indoor 800m record.

Wow, brilliant stuff. Great to see her living up to her obvious potential.

KielyUnusual

Travers with a 7.55 in the 3000m in Boston yesterday. Hon John.

Myles Splitz

Adam McMullen with a new PB in Gent over the weekend to win in 7.83m.

Myles Splitz

Not often you get a world lead time from an Irish person at any distance. Also an Irish record and 6th European alltime.

M 500 m A2
1 Mark English 93 IRL 1:00.93 WL
2 Erik Sowinski 89 USA 1:01.72
3 Mohammad Abbas 96 QAT 1:02.51
4 Adam Danielsson 93 SWE 1:04.55

WR for Souleiman also with a 2.14.20 in the 1km, bodes well for Dibaba's WR attempt later.

Pherekydes

Myles Splitz wrote: »

Not often you get a world lead time from an Irish person at any distance. Also an Irish record and 6th European alltime.

Didn't last long. Haroun ran sub 60 in the second race!

Dodge

Rose Anne Gilligan the pick of the Irish in Athlone. World indoor qualifying time of 4:11.07 (new PB too) in finishing 3rd in 1,500m

Sacksian

KielyUnusual wrote: »

Travers with a 7.55 in the 3000m in Boston yesterday. Hon John.

John finished 2nd in that race, behind Ahmed Bile who is the son of Abdi Bile (1500m gold at 1987 WC + bronze behind Morceli and Cacho at 1993 WC).

He's running the Armory Invitational Mile along with John Coghlan (+Drew Hunter) at the Millrose Games on Saturday, while Ciara Mageean is running the women's Wanamaker Mile. The fields for both men's and women's Wanamaker mile look really good: http://www.nyrrmillrosegames.org/fields-2016/

tang1

Sara Treacy with the win over 3k in Armagh, 9.19 odd.

KielyUnusual

Sacksian wrote: »

John finished 2nd in that race, behind Ahmed Bile who is the son of Abdi Bile (1500m gold at 1987 WC + bronze behind Morceli and Cacho at 1993 WC).

He's running the Armory Invitational Mile along with John Coghlan (+Drew Hunter) at the Millrose Games on Saturday, while Ciara Mageean is running the women's Wanamaker Mile. The fields for both men's and women's Wanamaker mile look really good: http://www.nyrrmillrosegames.org/fields-2016/

Excellent, will be great to see all the Irish in action and a strong field in the Wanamaker Mile too. Must try and catch these.

tang1

Kevin Mulcaire first Irish man home in the Armagh 5k in 14.14.02 good for 15th place.

Chivito550

tang1 wrote: »

Kevin Mulcaire first Irish man home in the Armagh 5k in 14.14.02 good for 15th place.

Is it not a bit odd that women race over 3k at this? It's not the 1980s anymore.

Or is it a case that they struggle to get big numbers on the women's side and a 3k can pull in some middle distance runners to boost numbers?

tang1

Chivito550 wrote: »

Is it not a bit odd that women race over 3k at this? It's not the 1980s anymore.

Or is it a case that they struggle to get big numbers on the women's side and a 3k can pull in some middle distance runners to boost numbers?

Possible there tight time wise to and 3k is a faster race.

Myles Splitz

Chivito550 wrote: »

Or is it a case that they struggle to get big numbers on the women's side and a 3k can pull in some middle distance runners to boost numbers?

This,

This race is set up as the most competitive race in the country with the deepest fields (Nationals included)

We aren't the strongest nation depth wise over 5k so 3k makes sense for this race.

Unreal stats from the race

67 men sub 15 minutes with the entire field going quicker than 16.55

Coffee Fulled Runner

Unreal running tonight in Armagh. Brilliant stuff.

Itziger

Myles Splitz wrote: »

This,

This race is set up as the most competitive race in the country with the deepest fields (Nationals included)

We aren't the strongest nation depth wise over 5k so 3k makes sense for this race.

Unreal stats from the race

67 men sub 15 minutes with the entire field going quicker than 16.55

A stat to remember the next time I finish high up in some halfpenny local race. I would've been last by about a minute in Armagh!! What meet is that folks? Track or road, or what?

tang1

Itziger wrote: »

A stat to remember the next time I finish high up in some halfpenny local race. I would've been last by about a minute in Armagh!! What meet is that folks? Track or road, or what?

Road, it's the Armagh International Road Races. Think a sub 17 5k is needed to run the 5k.

Itziger

I belatedly realised that a track 5k with more than 100 runners might be kinda messy. Feeling a bit light headed this morning!

KielyUnusual

Mark English with a 1:46.99 for second place in the Glasgow Indoor Grand Prix behind Kszczot. Great early season form.

Itziger

KielyUnusual wrote: »

Mark English with a 1:46.99 for second place in the Glasgow Indoor Grand Prix behind Kszczot. Great early season form.

I thought he drifted in and out of the race quite a bit. First thought he was going to sit in 3rd which looked perfect but then lost a couple of places and did very well to finish second.

Miles Games on now Live.

Chivito550

Itziger wrote: »

I thought he drifted in and out of the race quite a bit. First thought he was going to sit in 3rd which looked perfect but then lost a couple of places and did very well to finish second.

Miles Games on now Live.

Have you a link to any live feed?

Itziger

Didn't realise auto correct had changed the Millrose to 'miles'

At the moment it's boys/girls and college stuff. Some crazy poor pacing by the youngsters.
http://live.usatf.tv/livemillrose2016.html

Itziger

3,58.10 for Travers in 6th. Looked on for 4th with 100 to go.

Sacksian

Itziger wrote: »

3,58.10 for Travers in 6th. Looked on for 4th with 100 to go.

That's an indoor PB by a second and a half, if his listed 3:59.62 indoor pb is accurate, and puts him 13th on the Irish all-time indoor mile list.

Sacksian

4:28.40 for Ciara Mageean in the mile - a new indoor NR.

El Caballo

Bit behind but a catchup from NCAA indoor nationals at the weekend. There was 4 Irish running.

Siofra just missed out on making the final by a tenth of a second, running 2:04.77 in the first heat of the 800m prelims. Sarah Collins finished 12th in the 5000m running 16:33.

On the men's side, Sean Tobin anchored the Ole Miss DMR team home to third with a 3:57 mile split and Harry Purcell ran a 48.23 400m split for Villanova on the way to 6th in the DMR.

tang1

ultrapercy with the win in the Mullingar Half Marathon this morning in 69.36.

tang1

Fionnuala McCormack 4th in the New York Half Marathon this morning in 70mins 44secs.

snailsong

tang1 wrote: »

ultrapercy with the win in the Mullingar Half Marathon this morning in 69.36.

Norah Newcomer Pieterse first woman in 1:19:50. Both Mayo AC, both off to Rotterdam.

2 great pb's. John is racing 20 years at the pointy end, this is his first sub 70 half. Maybe a lesson for anyone who thinks they're done after 5 or 6 years.

tang1

snailsong wrote: »

Maybe a lesson for anyone who thinks they're done after 5 or 6 years.

You remember that if it happens to get tough in Rotterdam P!!

ultrapercy

snailsong wrote: »

Norah Newcomer Pieterse first woman in 1:19:50. Both Mayo AC, both off to Rotterdam.

2 great pb's. John is racing 20 years at the pointy end, this is his first sub 70 half. Maybe a lesson for anyone who thinks they're done after 5 or 6 years.

Just spotted this now. I was delighted with my run in Mullingar I told a few people (who asked) that I was going to give it a go but I don't know if I actually believed it myself. I can't describe the feeling of looking at the watch 100m from the finish line and knowing it was going to happen. I have thrown the toys out of the pram and given up many times but days like that make it worth while. The course and organisation was brilliant and the weather was good so things fell into place for me. Your quite right Paul, running is a sport for the long haul and making incremental improvements over years not just weeks or months but it requires a lot of focus that most people are not willing to give. If you stick with it consistently and are lucky with injuries(I'm blessed) the results will come.Thanks Tang for the bit of boards fame, nice to see myself in the results thread where the elite usually dwell. Sorry for bringing the thread off topic.

snailsong

Delighted for you, John.
I was hoping to talk to you last Sunday but got called away to a minor emergency down town and literally ran out of the building before prize-giving. Ill see you in Rotterdam if not sooner, will you be at Kilmovee?

Thanks to tang for posting, if you're not elite then who is?

Dodge

Paul Pollock in 16th in world half marathon champs after 15k. 2nd European after Mo Farah

Myles Splitz

Dodge wrote: »

Paul Pollock in 16th in world half marathon champs after 15k. 2nd European after Mo Farah

Seward and Frasier 41st and 43rd. Apparently working there way up the field

Dodge

Pollock was 14th in 62:46. Brilliant performance

Pherekydes

Pollock 14th, first true non-African! 1:02:46