The time of the year when parents take a big sigh of relief and push the kids back out the door for school in the mornings. Parents and kids can now get back into routines although the darker nights looming just around the corner. Participation rates have been building back up to pre summer numbers so remember to pay acknowledgement to the group text coaches sent out regarding training nights.
Now to the good stuff. First up was the Firmus meet at Mary Peters on Thursday night. This event runs like a well-oiled machine and always gets a good turnout from the young stags.
First up were the speedsters and the results are posted below:
| Place | BIB | 60m U11 Boys Race 1 | w -0.3 | Time |
| 1 | 1064 | Callum Lowe | City of Lisburn AC | 9.23 |
| 2 | 756 | Ollie Davey | North Down AC | 9.53 |
| 3 | 998 | Matthew Lilley | 0 | 9.80 |
| 4 | 1185 | Jake Smyth | 0 | 9.84 |
| 5 | 768 | Dara Duggan | Orangegrove AC | 10.02 |
| 6 | 815 | Riley Conwell | North Belfast Harriers | 10.13 |
| Place | BIB | 100m U13 Boys Race 1 | w -0.4 | Time |
| 1 | 963 | Ollie Hanna | Loughview AC | 14.37 |
| 2 | 710 | Oliver Beatty | Ballymena & Antrim AC | 14.46 |
| 3 | 769 | Fraser Dunlop | City of Lisburn AC | 14.47 |
| 4 | 788 | Connor Geary | St Annes AC | 15.21 |
| 5 | 1117 | Conor Mcloughlin | 0 | 15.22 |
| 6 | 739 | Thomas Coy | North Belfast Harriers | 17.22 |
Next up was the middle distance events: Lots of great runs but special mention to Charlie McLarnon on his podium appearance.
| Place | BIB | 600m U11 Girls | Time | |
| 1 | 761 | Bonnie Devlin | FOYLE | 1:56.09 |
| 2 | 1115 | Annabel Mckeown | City of Lisburn AC | 1:59.85 |
| 3 | 716 | Béibhinn Bourke | 0 | 2:02.18 |
| 4 | 1111 | Eve Mckee | Newry AC | 2:03.25 |
| 5 | 734 | Lara Cheatley | North Down AC | 2:04.82 |
| 6 | 1093 | Aria Mccay | 0 | 2:05.94 |
| 7 | 1089 | Eloise Mcauley | Mallusk Harriers | 2:09.10 |
| 8 | 981 | Nyla Hughes | North Down AC | 2:11.83 |
| 9 | 970 | Rose Henderson | City of Lisburn AC | 2:15.51 |
| 10 | 740 | Eimear Coy | North Belfast Harriers | 2:25.42 |
| 11 | 777 | Erin Finlay | Lagan Valley AC | 2:25.99 |
| 12 | 753 | Rachel Curry | North Belfast Harriers | 2:27.59 |
| 13 | 1061 | Abigail Lockington | 0 | 2:31.49 |
| 14 | 780 | Emily Fleming | Willowfield Harriers | 2:31.62 |
| 15 | 1077 | Alicia McCaugherty | East Down AC | 2:35.70 |
| Place | BIB | 800m U13 Boys | Time | |
| 1 | 1084 | Caolan McGarry | Willowfield Harriers | 2:24.45 |
| 2 | 769 | Fraser Dunlop | City of Lisburn AC | 2:30.12 |
| 3 | 1094 | Fionn Mccay | City of Lisburn AC | 2:33.24 |
| 4 | 985 | Alex Jackson | 0 | 2:37.05 |
| 5 | 963 | Ollie Hanna | Loughview AC | 2:37.75 |
| 6 | 1164 | Finn Powell | City of Lisburn AC | 2:37.75 |
| 7 | 739 | Thomas Coy | North Belfast Harriers | 2:38.56 |
| 8 | 714 | James Blease | North Down AC | 2:40.19 |
| 9 | 1130 | Eoin Morgan | Lagan Valley AC | 2:40.67 |
| 10 | 1147 | Conan O’Doherty | Mid Ulster AC | 2:44.37 |
| 11 | 1126 | Max Monaghan | Lagan Valley AC | 2:45.75 |
| 12 | 1170 | Liam Ramage | Loughview AC | 2:48.02 |
| 13 | 788 | Connor Geary | St Annes AC | 2:49.76 |
| 14 | 779 | Matthew Fleming | Willowfield Harriers | 2:50.33 |
| 15 | 1090 | Leo Mcauley | Mallusk Harriers | 2:59.41 |
| Place | BIB | 800m U13 Girls | Time | |
| 1 | 1103 | Olivia Mccusker | Loughview AC | 2:27.63 |
| 2 | 473 | Madison Welby | City of Lisburn AC | 2:35.17 |
| 3 | 772 | Grace Evans | Mid Ulster AC | 2:37.09 |
| 4 | 751 | Cassie Curran | North Belfast Harriers | 2:38.51 |
| 5 | 800 | Cadence Hamilton | St Peters AC | 2:44.20 |
| 6 | 723 | Molly Brown | City of Lisburn AC | 2:47.23 |
| 7 | 987 | Mia Johnston-Kerr | City of Lisburn AC | 2:52.27 |
| 8 | 1148 | Sinead O’Hare | Mallusk Harriers | 3:03.30 |
| Place | BIB | 800m U15 Boys Race 1 | Time | |
| 1 | 1099 | Mason Mccreery | Loughview AC | 2:10.37 |
| 2 | 713 | Elijah Blake | Orangegrove AC | 2:19.40 |
| 3 | 1088 | Charlie McLarnon | North Belfast Harriers | 2:21.99 |
| 4 | 1075 | Rory McCamphill | City of Lisburn AC | 2:23.71 |
| 5 | 755 | Ashton Cusick | City of Lisburn AC | 2:25.70 |
| 6 | 968 | Adam Harrison | Lagan Valley AC | 2:28.21 |
| 7 | 1124 | Daniel Monaghan | Lagan Valley AC | 2:31.93 |
| 8 | 742 | Marcos Craig | Lagan Valley AC | 2:48.20 |
| Place | BIB | 800m U15 Girls Race 1 | Time | |
| 1 | 1116 | Katie Mckittrick | Willowfield Harriers | 2:30.41 |
| 2 | 1067 | Aoife Magee | Lagan Valley AC | 2:34.34 |
| 3 | 974 | Katie Hilditch | Ballymena & Antrim AC | 2:34.84 |
| 4 | 711 | Carys Bell | Lagan Valley AC | 2:39.37 |
| 5 | 995 | Mcintyre Lauren | Lagan Valley AC | 2:41.16 |
| 6 | 99 | Chloe Vernon | Armagh AC | 2:43.83 |
| 7 | 1152 | Anna OKane | Beechmount AC | 2:46.63 |
| 8 | 1141 | Emily Murphy | Mallusk Harriers | 2:48.32 |
| 9 | 426 | Chloe Young | Lagan Valley AC | 2:49.21 |
| 10 | 760 | Noelle Devlin | North Belfast Harriers | 2:49.60 |
| 11 | 1121 | Hannah Milligan | Lagan Valley AC | 3:00.74 |
After the success of the Firmus meet it was back to the Waterworks for the Saturday morning Parkrun. Great to see kids running around with their parents or in some cases their parents trying to catch them. Special mention to new member Milo Purvis on completing his 50th run. This weeks results are :
Alex Reid 21.08
Dara Cassidy 21.18
Jack O’Neill 25.07
Matthew Purvis 25.49
Oran Steele 26.53
Milo Purvis 33.18
Waterworks Junior Parkrun
With most heading over to the kids 1-mile race at Laganside only a few runners made it for a sunny 9.30am start. Special mention to Sophie Weiniger on her best time so far. Results are:
Alex Reid 7.50
Eimear O’Regan 9.57
Sadie Sullivan 10.17
Sophie Weiniger 10.39
Thomas Weiniger 11.49
Dara McLaughlin 14.24
Last but not least was the big one. Lots of junior stags headed over to a sunny Ormeau Park to race the mile. Special mention to Thomas Coy for his second place. Thomas has been training hard all summer and is getting better week on week. Cassie Curran deserves huge credit also for her first place finish. If you’ve ever seen Cassie race if she has a sniff of a win with 80m to go very few will beat her. Well done to both of you. Lots of our juniors will have raced the mile for the first time too. It’s a long way and lots of lessons will have been taken away from today especially about pacing. I’m sure when the whistle went to start them is was like a scene from Braveheart for the first 100m metres. Connor Curran has a great little video he will share on social media.
Results are as follows:
| 1 | 1885 | Carter | Rolston | 00:04:41 | M | North Down AC |
| 2 | 1847 | Thomas | Coy | 00:04:45 | M | North Belfast Harriers |
| 3 | 1862 | Rory | Kennedy | 00:04:49 | M | Ballymena & Antrim A.C. |
| 4 | 1864 | Cormac | Leheny | 00:05:05 | M | North Belfast Harriers |
| 5 | 1850 | Cassie | Curran | 00:05:09 | F | North Belfast Harriers |
| 6 | 1875 | Emily | Murphy | 00:05:14 | F | Mallusk Harriers |
| 7 | 1843 | Molly | Blair | 00:05:16 | F | Ballymena & Antrim A.C. |
| 8 | 1896 | Niamh | McAuley | 00:05:22 | F | North Belfast Harriers |
| 9 | 1869 | Peter | McCann | 00:05:24 | M | Mallusk Harriers |
| 10 | 1867 | Sion | McAllister | 00:05:26 | M | 0 |
| 11 | 1894 | Isla | Wiltshire | 00:05:28 | F | North Belfast Harriers |
| 12 | 1895 | Ethan | Wiltshire | 00:05:29 | M | North Belfast Harriers |
| 13 | 1872 | Tom | McLoughlin | 00:05:30 | M | North Belfast Harriers |
| 14 | 1880 | James | Oshaughnessy | 00:05:38 | M | North Belfast Harriers |
| 15 | 1890 | Lewis | Walker | 00:05:41 | M | 0 |
| 16 | 1870 | Senan | McConnell | 00:05:44 | M | North Belfast Harriers |
| 17 | 1898 | Niall | McAuley | 00:05:44 | M | North Belfast Harriers |
| 18 | 1897 | Erin | McAuley | 00:05:45 | F | North Belfast Harriers |
| 19 | 1879 | Sinead | Ohare | 00:05:47 | F | Mallusk Harriers |
| 20 | 1851 | Orlaith | Fahy Duckett | 00:05:59 | F | North Belfast Harriers |
| 21 | 1909 | Logan | O’Neil | 00:06:01 | M | Keep er Lit |
| 22 | 1845 | Eabha | Conway | 00:06:02 | F | North Belfast Harriers |
| 23 | 1899 | Luke | O’Shaughnessy | 00:06:03 | M | North Belfast Harriers |
| 24 | 1871 | Cillian | McConnell | 00:06:13 | M | North Belfast Harriers |
| 25 | 1848 | Eimear | Coy | 00:06:28 | F | North Belfast Harriers |
| 26 | 1865 | Pearse | Leheny | 00:06:30 | M | North Belfast Harriers |
| 27 | 1900 | Grace | McKenna | 00:06:32 | F | North Belfast Harriers |
| 28 | 1892 | Conan | Ward | 00:06:35 | M | Jog Lisburn Running Club |
| 29 | 1846 | Nathaniel | Cooke | 00:06:39 | M | 0 |
| 30 | 1857 | Thomas | Gervin | 00:06:47 | M | Keep Er Lit Running Club |
| 31 | 1876 | Calum | Murphy | 00:06:51 | M | Mallusk Harriers |
| 32 | 1866 | Farrah | McAllister | 00:06:52 | F | 0 |
| 33 | 1873 | Eva | McLoughlin | 00:06:54 | F | North Belfast Harriers |
| 34 | 1854 | Grace | Foord | 00:06:58 | F | North Down AC |
| 35 | 1856 | Grace | Gervin | 00:06:59 | F | 0 |
| 36 | 1910 | Harry | O’Neil | 00:07:09 | M | Keep er Lit |
| 37 | 1853 | Erin | Finlay | 00:07:11 | F | Lagan Valley AC |
| 38 | 1888 | Nikolas | Shields | 00:07:16 | M | 0 |
| 39 | 1881 | Alfie | Pollock | 00:07:17 | M | 0 |
| 40 | 1858 | Alfie | Hagan | 00:07:18 | M | 0 |
| 41 | 1882 | Finlay | Pollock | 00:07:20 | M | 0 |
| 42 | 1911 | Jody | Anderson | 00:07:33 | F | Co Antrim Harriers |
| 43 | 1893 | Alfie | Wilson | 00:07:36 | M | East Coast AC |
| 44 | 1868 | Keona | McAllister | 00:07:44 | F | 0 |
| 45 | 1883 | Nola | Rafferty | 00:07:48 | F | 0 |
| 46 | 1884 | Ruadhan | Rafferty | 00:07:57 | M | 0 |
| 47 | 1849 | Ethan | Craig | 00:08:11 | M | 0 |
| 48 | 1878 | Grainne | Nig Leid | 00:08:45 | F | 0 |
| 49 | 1877 | Laoise | Nig Leid | 00:08:46 | F | 0 |
| 50 | 1852 | Clodagh | Fahy Duckett | 00:08:49 | F | North Belfast Harriers |
| 51 | 1844 | Hollie | Brennan | 00:08:51 | F | Mallusk Harriers |
| 52 | 1842 | Ella | Anderson | 00:09:15 | F | Co Antrim Harriers |
Triathlon Stags
Also slipping into the results this week is Orlagh McComb. Orlagh has been a junior stag for many years and rarely misses an opportunity to race. This week she came third in the Mourne Triathlon 16-19 female section. For those that are unfamiliar with this event you swim, bike, then run. None are easy disciplines on their own and you can only imagine how hard putting all 3 together is. Hurts my back even thinking about it. She finished in a time of 1 hour 38 minutes
That’s the track season coming to an end and unfortuatley we are back into the muck and cold for an exciting cross country spell. The first big one the club will target is the Bobby Rea in Comber. This is the even age champs and is held on the 22nd October. We need to start coordinating teams etc.. The uneven champs will be up in Finn Valley on the 6th November. It would be great to see every registered junior stag entered and running to make up the teams. You never know we might even make the all Ireland champs!!!