Athletics 2021

OOnegative

GOH 2.21.38
Sean Hehir 2.23.36
Tommy Hughes 2.31.17
The Claw DNS

Lambay island

OOnegative wrote: »

GOH 2.21.38
Sean Hehir 2.23.36
Tommy Hughes 2.31.17
The Claw DNS

Tommy Hughes is some man.

Chivito550

I see the chap from Cork Athletics is still Tony Holohan in disguise!!

deisedude

Chivito550 wrote: »

I see the chap from Cork Athletics is still Tony Holohan in disguise!!

You would nearly have to admire him still beating the same drum when he knows every runner in Cork hates him!

In more positive news great to see athletics on TG4 today

rom

Lambay island wrote: »

Tommy Hughes is some man.

Listening to him not happy with the time as he missed 10 days training. Never settle.

jamule

Kate O Connor nat record in Italy, 6297. 123 off olympic Q.

TRR_the_turd

Chivito550 wrote: »

I see the chap from Cork Athletics is still Tony Holohan in disguise!!

Link?

Ceepo

Some run from Jake Smith, he was only down to pace up 25k mark, decided to stay going and ended upon winning in a Olympic qualifying time of 2.11, only 4 days after running a 3.50 1500m pb., unfortunately that won't be good enough to earn a spot on Team GB as there's already 3 faster and selected.
Apparently his longest run was 19/20 miles.
He paced in Kew gardens as well and looked extremely comfortable there. He does have a 60. 30 half under his belt, but impressive all the same.

OOnegative

Ceepo wrote: »

Some run from Jake Smith, he was only down to pace up 25k mark, decided to stay going and ended upon winning in a Olympic qualifying time of 2.11, only 4 days after running a 3.50 1500m pb., unfortunately that won't be good enough to earn a spot on Team GB as there's already 3 faster and selected.
Apparently his longest run was 19/20 miles.
He paced in Kew gardens as well and looked extremely comfortable there. He does have a 69.30 half under his belt, but impressive all the same.

59.30 surely?

Chivito550

TRR_the_turd wrote: »

Link?

https://www.corkathletics.org/news/2188-showdown-in-pulford-cheshire-elite-marathon-2021.html

One of many examples over the last year. Embarrassing stuff.

Ceepo

OOnegative wrote: »

59.30 surely?

Oops my bad. 60.30

Big finger, small keyboard syndrome

healy1835

Ceepo wrote: »

Some run from Jake Smith, he was only down to pace up 25k mark, decided to stay going and ended upon winning in a Olympic qualifying time of 2.11, only 4 days after running a 3.50 1500m pb., unfortunately that won't be good enough to earn a spot on Team GB as there's already 3 faster and selected.
Apparently his longest run was 19/20 miles.
He paced in Kew gardens as well and looked extremely comfortable there. He does have a 60. 30 half under his belt, but impressive all the same.

I saw bits of the coverage this morning. He seemed pretty relaxed too, chatting to passers by etc. He was down to pace 2:11:30 though yeah? The NZ runner Moody that he had been running with for most of the footage that I saw, missed out by 7 seconds yet Smith was 30 seconds under?

rom

Chivito550 wrote: »

https://www.corkathletics.org/news/2188-showdown-in-pulford-cheshire-elite-marathon-2021.html

One of many examples over the last year. Embarrassing stuff.

I don’t see your point. Is it somehow something wrong with stating why they can travel to the race?

deisedude

rom wrote: »

I don’t see your point. Is it somehow something wrong with stating why they can travel to the race?

There are about 10 other articles from John Quigley throughout the past 12 months with negative undertones demonising athletes in Cork for the slightest infractions and some are just complete B.S. rumours

He is using the Cork Athletics website as a pulpit to share his own opinions and most club runners in Cork are rightly sick of it and want him gone

ariana`

healy1835 wrote: »

Ann Marie McGlynn 2:29:34......that's devastating.

Apparently she had to make a toilet stop in the latter miles. Not sure if that's true or not but if it was it cost her dearly. Heartbreaking.

Chivito550

deisedude wrote: »

There are about 10 other articles from John Quigley throughout the past 12 months with negative undertones demonising athletes in Cork for the slightest infractions and some are just complete B.S. rumours

He is using the Cork Athletics website as a pulpit to share his own opinions and most club runners in Cork are rightly sick of it and want him gone

https://www.corkathletics.org/news/1674-covid-19-and-long-runs-or-long-periods-in-public.html

This post is the worst of the lot.

Chivito550

Kate O'Connor, NR in Heptathlon with 6297 pts. That should get her to Tokyo. What a performance.

Murph_D

Chivito550 wrote: »

https://www.corkathletics.org/news/1674-covid-19-and-long-runs-or-long-periods-in-public.html

This post is the worst of the lot.

It's a year old. A lot has been learned since then. It seems to me to only be reminding people about the guidelines. Surely that's part of the job of the County Board, especially if they have a popular website, which they seem to have (unlike Dublin County Board e.g.)

Don't see much if anything wrong with it, given the timing.

jamule

Chivito550 wrote: »

Kate O'Connor, NR in Heptathlon with 6297 pts. That should get her to Tokyo. What a performance.

123 short of Q but I presume she will get there on ranking.

Forge83

Murph_D wrote: »

It's a year old. A lot has been learned since then. It seems to me to only be reminding people about the guidelines. Surely that's part of the job of the County Board, especially if they have a popular website, which they seem to have (unlike Dublin County Board e.g.)

Don't see much if anything wrong with it, given the timing.

There’s reminding people of the guidelines and there’s going totally over the top involving the Gardai.
Cork county board have always been a few sandwiches short of a picnic.

Forge83

Chivito550 wrote: »

Kate O'Connor, NR in Heptathlon with 6297 pts. That should get her to Tokyo. What a performance.

What an athlete! Minus winds in her hurdles and 200m so she should break it again in better conditions. Looks to have all the tools to become a world class senior athlete.

horsebox1977

Forge83 wrote: »

What an athlete! Minus winds in her hurdles and 200m so she should break it again in better conditions. Looks to have all the tools to become a world class senior athlete.

She's currently 3rd in the world now.

I wonder will she do another Hept before the Olympics? or will she be chosen as part of the top X?

Forge83

horsebox1977 wrote: »

She's currently 3rd in the world now.

I wonder will she do another Hept before the Olympics? or will she be chosen as part of the top X?

I’d imagine they would prefer not to and focus on individual event competitions competing in 2 events per day. But they will have a heptathlon event lined up just in case she gets pushed down the qualification list.

horsebox1977

Forge83 wrote: »

I’d imagine they would prefer not to and focus on individual event competitions competing in 2 events per day. But they will have a heptathlon event lined up just in case she gets pushed down the qualification list.

Yeah.

I see Vicente is due to compete in another Heptathlon in Arona.

https://european-athletics.com/news/vicente-smashes-spanish-heptathlon-record-with-6304-points-in-lana

RacoonQueen

Temporarily closing to allow Mods to review some posts

RacoonQueen

There is some continued discussion in relation to posts in this thread, we will reopen as soon as we can.

Mar Azul

15'43 PB for Aoibhe Richardson over 5k and 23 flat for Rhasidat in the 200 (wind +2.7 though).

yerwanthere123

Oh the thread has been reopened. No idea why it got closed in the first place.

Anyway, Sifan Hassan will be running a "fast" 10,000m in Hengelo on June 6th. I wonder if she's got the world record on her mind, that was the original intention back in October when she ran her 29:36 but an obviously disrupted season and horrible weather didn't allow. Would be quite a gauntlet to lay down before Tokyo.

gavinoontheweb

Athletics tonight with World Relays in Poland, Tokyo spots up for grabs over the weekend. Fairplay to the Poles hosting yet another covid impacted event after Gdynia and Torun.
In normal times the number of spectators would have been huge in Torun and here I'd imagine, the country is keen on atheltics as seen by the upward trend over their athletes over the last decade.

Pherekydes

Adeleke ran a 100m PB in the last few minutes: 11.58 +0.2