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Athletics 2021

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,729 ✭✭✭Ceepo


    I've attended a few xc races, 2 x world cross and euro cross in Dublin. World xc in Belfast was absolutely brilliant event to be at, great atmosphere, up close to the athletes, and you could sence they were feeding off it. Euro xc much the same,

    World xc in Leopardstown was a damp squib from a spectators pov. Everyone in the stand area, and it allowed out in the course anywhere near the athletes.

    All that said I'll certainly be going next week.

    Also have more than a 2 hr commute.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 185 ✭✭Inventive User Name


    It's funny that for all the running and races I've done over the years, I've never went to a race as a spectator, so really looking forward to this!! This might sound like a silly question, but would most people move between different sections of the course as the race progresses to follow the guys at the front, or would it be better to just stay in one position? I'd be ok for a brisk walk from one point to another, but the knee is a bit dodgy at the minute so I wouldn't be up for anything to0 strenuous!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 72 ✭✭Peeling1979


    Yeah, it was difficult in Santry because most parts of the course were fairly far apart, but at the Euros there’s points (more of a figure of 8 than a loop) where it’s about 150m/200m between two points which is ok if ya walk/scuttle across quickly. All part of the fun. I hope there’s a big screen or two so you can see them on the course at one point and then watch it on the screen.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,418 ✭✭✭Lazare


    Inside that short loop, close to the finish straight looks like the optimal spot.


    Maps and timetables here.. https://european-athletics.com/competitions/spar-european-cross-country-championships



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,729 ✭✭✭Ceepo


    Waterford AC’s Barry Keane has set an new Irish indoor record at the Boston University Sharon Colyear-Danville Season Opener.


    Keane produced the fastest 5k of his life to clock a stunning 13:25:96, which ranks as Ireland's fastest ever by an Irishman. The performance made all the more impressive with Keane coming into the race off his recent NCAA cross country division 1 final appearance.


    The time goes to top of the Irish all-time list, taking over from Alistair Cragg’s 13:28.93 record which had stood since March 2003.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,190 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    Fionnuala McCormack ran 2:23:58 for 5th in Valencia.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,306 ✭✭✭ariana`


    And 2nd fastest Irish woman ever after Catherina. Fantastic to see. Paris isn't that far away.


    It will be interesting to see how she recovers this week for the XC Euros. I see RTE are televising them, great news.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,513 ✭✭✭Dubh Geannain


    Keane Story already posted but here's the race. Don't see much of him. Apart from the pace it was a dull enough race.


    FOUR 5K National Records In ONE Race - YouTube



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,237 ✭✭✭Wottle


    Listening to marathon talk this morning and I'm fairly sure they said Fionnuala wasn't in the fast shoes, can't remember exact wording. I know a couple of years ago she was against them but thought she might have to give in to be competitive.

    Does anyone know what shoes she was in?



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,306 ✭✭✭ariana`


    In this picture it looks like she is wearing New Balance Fuelcell RC Elite v2??



  • Registered Users Posts: 631 ✭✭✭Cleanman


    I just assumed she was wearing 'fast shoes' too. Fair play to her. For those more in the know, how much of a difference would the 'fast shoes' make in terms of time improvement?

    Also, if she wasn't wearing 'fast shoes', how much harder will it be for her to recover for Sundays XC? Impossible question to answer but it will be even more impressive if she toes the line on Sunday and is competitive.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,484 ✭✭✭✭Murph_D




  • Registered Users Posts: 343 ✭✭MrMacPhisto


    You are probably correct re that picture, but that's the Olympic Marathon, not the Valencia marathon. The pictures I linked are from last Sunday in Valencia. I'd be 99 % sure that they are the Asics Metaspeed Sky. Swashbuckler, it is over to you 🤣

    Anyway, what does it matter. She ran a great race. Fair play to her. Great to see!!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,582 ✭✭✭Swashbuckler


    Haha ye have too much faith in me...looks the the metaspeed sky yeah. Its an interesting one though. Eilish McColgan is sponsored by Asics so she wears nothing but Asics for all her road and track races and training. You'd wonder what she'd manage if she was able to throw on the supershoes . Little plug for Eilish actually. She's well worth following on Facebook or Instagram. Posts a lot of clips of her training and general daily life. And interacts with fans with questions too.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 293 ✭✭Paddy1234


    I don’t see any thread for the European Cross Country on Sunday. Is anyone going? I see from the email that they want everybody to get shuttle bus from M3 Parkway. Does anyone know if there would be anywhere nearby the Sports Campus to park? Don’t fancy driving and then having to hop on a bus. Thanks.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 933 ✭✭✭jamule


    Loadsa parking in rosemount biz park, 15 min walk.


    seriously though, parking in dunboyne is a joke, there will be people having to travel further to get to dunboyne. there must be abput 50,000 parking spaces free around rosemount and ballycoolin on sunday



  • Registered Users Posts: 293 ✭✭Paddy1234


    Thanks Jamule. I figured that but don’t know the area. Cheers for the heads up. I was thinking Dunboyne sounded ridiculous.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,418 ✭✭✭Lazare


    So other than the GOAT who's your main draw tomorrow?


    Me I'm looking forward to watching Nick Griggs in the U20.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,418 ✭✭✭Lazare


    Parking in Corduff might be handier than Rosemount.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 933 ✭✭✭jamule


    shush, thats where i'll be going, but it will be scarce



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 933 ✭✭✭jamule


    Griggs , the relay should be great craic, and Jimmy doing something stupid at the finish.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,729 ✭✭✭Ceepo


    Whoa, hold on there a minute. What's this about parking in Dunboyne. Isn't the m3 Parkway the designated park spot? Is that in Dunboyne?.

    Surely there is closer parking than that? Bearing in mind I'll be travelling for 2 hrs from the other direction



  • Registered Users Posts: 506 ✭✭✭Freddie Mcinerney


    Any TV channel or an internet stream showing the European Cross Country Championships?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,418 ✭✭✭Lazare




  • Registered Users Posts: 506 ✭✭✭Freddie Mcinerney




  • Registered Users Posts: 2,501 ✭✭✭Laineyfrecks


    The under 23 mens race was brilliant, delighted to see us place 2nd. A great fight to the end for McElhinney & a gold for the team...brilliant

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,708 ✭✭✭Speak Now


    Brilliant mens under 23 race, great viewing. Individual silver and team gold for Ireland.



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,501 ✭✭✭Laineyfrecks


    Healy placed 5th, she just couldn't keep up with top 4 as they broke away.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,740 ✭✭✭4Ad


    Great television. I love seeing competitors collapsing over the line, after giving it everything, compare them to alot of premiership 300k a week soccer players who at the end of a game are hardly sweating or caring about the result..



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,418 ✭✭✭Lazare


    Such a cracking race. Darragh is a warrior, looked so cool.


    The noise and buzz here during it was incredible.



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,501 ✭✭✭Laineyfrecks


    You are there? Yeah the atmosphere looks great!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,418 ✭✭✭Lazare


    Yep, managed to park myself at a great spot about 40m from the tape. I'm 6 feet away from the relay handover, so can't wait to see this.



  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 20,366 Mod ✭✭✭✭RacoonQueen


    This relay has been fantastic running from the Irish runners, Ciara had a great run to kick it off.



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,501 ✭✭✭Laineyfrecks


    Brilliant I'd say its great there! The relay looks great, all down to the last leg now!



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,501 ✭✭✭Laineyfrecks


    Ingebrigtsen is pure class to watch. Well done to Brian Fay finishing in 10th place, some talent in that race

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  • Registered Users Posts: 237 ✭✭patob


    Great effort by Fionnuala McCormack again, the marathon last weekend surely affected her form today. I guess the marathon is her main focus now?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 933 ✭✭✭jamule


    Jacob is just awesimeamazzing. great run from faye, pity about the tobin been injured ( mcilehenny would have got us a senior medal).

    women wern't great, finn faded badly, not sure how finoula managed 9th.

    Griggs was dissapointed , said he got a stich, he battled well to get the medal for the team.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,729 ✭✭✭Ceepo


    What a phenomenon day out, I'm still buzzing after it. Weather holding up certainly helped.

    Some savage performance out there today. Performance of the day for me was Denmark Axel Christensen blowing away the field in the u/20 race.

    Darragh Mac had a blinder and delighted to see the team taking the top spot.

    Probably should have had another medal in the mixed relay. Savage run from Alex Bell to bring GB back into it.

    Unfortunately our senior ladies apart for Fionnula were a bit off, but credit to Eilish Flanagan top 15 is very respectable. Michelle Finn didn't seem to have a good day out. Our ladies u/23 team struggling as well apart from Sarah Healy, her lack of miles in the legs told in the last lap.

    Great running from Fay and Haso, pity Tobin wasn't recovered in time, on previous races he'd be close to the 2 lads. But sure that's running for you.

    All in all a great day out.. Some entertainment for €9.00



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  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 7,533 Mod ✭✭✭✭yerwanthere123


    Grovdal finally winning a senior gold after so many near misses is the story of the day for me personally, what an effort. Even better was the fact that she left a convicted doper in her wake.

    Bit disappointed Klosterhalfen couldn't finish among the medals though.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 244 ✭✭BobBobBobBob


    Siofra left us down again. She is simply not a championship runner.

    If Sarah Healy was running the third leg Irish would have won a medal and I'd say it would have be Gold!!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,640 ✭✭✭Hamachi


    Yes. Was happy to see Grovdal claim the gold. She has been a stalwart of European athletics for years. The less said about Bahta, the better.

    I'm not sure what's wrong with Klosterhalfen. She seems to be regressing after a stellar 2017 and 2019. I know that she was battling injury last year, but at her best, would surely have run away from that field for an emphatic victory.

    It was interesting to see Alina Reh claim the bronze medal ahead of Klosterhalfen. I used to live in Germany, when both were emerging as junior athletes. Reh was actually perceived as the more talented and identified as the one who would make the greatest impact on the global stage. However, the tables turned in late 2015 when Klosterhalfen produced an unexpected victory in the U20 event. Unfortunately, both of them seem to be quite injury-prone. I hope they both can now put together some quality, injury-free seasons and realize their undoubted potential.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,729 ✭✭✭Ceepo


    I'd definitely agree with you here re SCB, however I'd still have put money on Coscoran to beat the 2 guys he was battling with. I know he didn't have a good national champs and maybe he's struggling after a long season. You or should I say, I would have thought that he would have had a break after the Olympics and got back into training mid to late September.

    I suppose it easy to be a hurler on the ditch



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    I think in his defence he went out with the intention of catching the Brit and the other 2 tucked in and let him do the running.

    If he had raced for a medal I think he would have taken silver or bronze but his earlier exertions meant he had nothing left at the end.



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  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 7,533 Mod ✭✭✭✭yerwanthere123


    Think this is exactly what happened. Think he'd easily have medalled if he didn't try to catch the leader.

    I know it's easy to criticise from an armchair but jeez, but that a really poor leg from Cléirigh-Buttner, particularly when you consider the lead she'd been given by the previous two.

    Didn't see it mentioned but I thought the women's u20 race was great also, fantastic duel between Megan Keith and Emma Heckel. All in all a great few hours of TV yesterday.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,729 ✭✭✭Ceepo


    Yeah I wouldn't disagree with you, however while he made the running he didn't go out any harder that the British guy or the 2 guys he was with.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,724 ✭✭✭Enduro


    I think it shows how spoilt we are when people are fretting about "only" getting 4th in a European final. We had a tremendous bunch of athletes out there representing us, and they achieved far more than you would objectively think was possible for a country of our size (and a country where athletics is a long way down the pecking order in terms of sporting profile). I missed seeing most of the races live since I was out on a long run, but when I came back and looked at the results it was really striking how competitive our athletes were against so many much bigger countries. So well done and thank you to every single one of them for doing their country proud.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 600 ✭✭✭thebronze14


    That was my first time attending a major athletics event and I can definitely say I've got the bug now! Was a great day out! Will keep track on this thread to see if there's any events nearby that I'll be able to attend



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,188 ✭✭✭MY BAD


    National race walking championship 35km results


    It's not often you see Race walk I think only two races around my way have them.



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