A quiet week for our Juniors this week, a combination of school exams, winter bugs and sub zero temperatures had an impact on numbers. However several of our juniors took part at evets over the weekend deciding the best way to combat the cold weather was to get running.
Irwin Speirs Memorial XC
The annual XC hosted by Acorns AC was held on Saturday and one junior Isaac Mooney ran in the boys u10 race and he finished in a brilliant 5th place. Last year the course was a mud bath and this year it resembled the rolling hills of Lapland! Well done Isaac, hope you enjoyed eating your prize over the weekend.
Saturday 5km Parkrun
Waterworks
On Saturday morning, you were either an optimist and guessed that the waterworks wouldn’t be iced off or you were eagerly refreshing the Waterworks parkrun facebook page to see if it was all cleared to go, either way well done to four of our juniors who wrapped up and ran a frosted yet surprisingly not slippy course.
| Runner | Position | Time |
| Alex Reid | 5 | 20:55 |
| Milo Purvis | 60 | 27:26 |
| Matthew Purvis | 87 | 30:00 |
| Eva McLoughlin | 93 | 31:07 |
Sunday 2km Junior Parkrun
Waterworks
Well done to the six Juniors who braved the cold yet sunny Waterworks Junior Parkrun on Sunday morning. Congratulations to Tom who grabbed himself a new PB shaving two seconds of his previous best time, the arctic air clearly didn’t hold him back!
| Runner | Position | Time |
| Tom McLaughlin | 2 | 8:02 *PB* |
| Jack O’Neill | 3 | 8:39 |
| Isaac Mooney | 5 | 9:04 |
| Senan Steele | 6 | 9:47 |
| Oisin Steele | 7 | 9:52 |
| Eva McLoughlin | 10 | 11:21 |
Training continues this coming Tuesday and Thursday at the Girls Model track, Primary school kids 6-7 and secondary school kids 7-8. Any assistance is really appreciated to help coaches set up and take down the mobile floodlights each evening so if you can arrive early or stay a few minutes later, its always appreciated.