On Saturday the 1st of September 2018 Ardee & District AC hosted their Annual Seamie Weldon Memorial 5K.
Photographs compliments of Adrian Crawley Photography, competitors and supporters…
Although overcast the temperature of the morning began to rise and the anticipation grew with it as hundreds gathered in Ardee St. Mary’s GFC.
Ardee & District AC’s Senior Members…
Ardee St. Mary’s Ladies Couch 2 5k Group warming up…
Syddan Runners
Drogheda & District AC Athletes…
The many faces captured before the race…
Seven minutes to go and our jolly competitors walked from Ardee St. Mary’s GFC to the Start Line. The atmosphere was electric as the apprehensive but enthusiastic competitors waited patiently for the whistle to blow and then they were off.
The first runner arrived back to tremendous applause in 15:07 minutes setting a new time challenge for next year’s race and the last of our competitors, who pushed her pram all the way came home ending our race in 50 minutes.
The celebrations soon moved to the Clubhouse where the competitors were treated to tea and coffee and an impressive display of sandwiches, cakes and buns. Club Chairman, Peter Carolan began the presentations by thanking all who travelled near and far to compete in the race, the many sponsors who contributed so generously to the running of the race and their prizes presentations and the wonderful volunteers who marshalled the race and worked tirelessly in the clubhouse on the day. Club Registrar, Trudi McGuinness then called out the results of all prize categories calculated by My Run Results.
In our Junior male category brothers, Oisin and Donchadh Hughes from Blackrock AC took 1st & 2nd place with Fran Whelan Dunleer AC coming 3rd and for our female juniors was our own Tara McGuinness Ardee & District AC in 1st, Katie Mallon Glenmore AC 2nd and independent runner Clare O’Brien in 3rd place.
In our senior category and breaking the bonus time challenge coming home 1st for Dumdum South Dublin AC was Hiko Tondsa in 15:07 minutes followed closely by Freddy Stukk Raheny Shamrock AC in 2nd place and Darragh Green from Dunleer AC in 3rd and for the women 1st place went to Laura MATHEWS of North East Runners AC with Orla Lambe from Raheny Shamrock AC coming 2nd with independent runner and local Lisa Burke coming 3rd.
Bonus Time Challenge – new record 15:07 minutes
Male Winners
Female Winners
For our over 40s men 1st was Paul Smith Drogheda & District AC & 2nd Pat Fitzpatrick Dunleer AC with Karen Costello coming 1st & Nicola Welsh 2nd both from Dunleer AC for the women. In our over 50s male category 1st was George Shieldsoo North East Runners & 2nd David O’Connell from Bohermeen AC with Anita Bolton coming 1st for North East Runners and Teresa Foy coming 2nd for Syddan Runners. In our last individual category the Over 60s put in some impressive times with Chis Keeling from Balbriggan & District AC coming 1st in 19:08 minutes followed by Michael Mulligan in 2nd place for Dunleer AC and winning for the ladies was Patricia Mulholland North East Runners AC in 1st place and Nuala Reilly Drogheda & District AC in 3nd place with our own Kathleen Brennan coming 3rd just missing out on the prizes.
Over ‘something’ winners…
As always, the team results were eagerly anticipated and this year taking home the Seamie Weldon Memorial Cup for the men was Dunleer & District AC winning this cup for a 2nd time followed closely by Drogheda & District AC. And taking home the Jimmy Bradly Memorial Cup for the women was Drogheda & District AC and coming a close second were last year’s winners Dunleer AC. In our new winner’s category for amateur runners the team who won a trophy each for the Seamie Weldon Memorial Community Team of 2018 were Moffett Engineering from Dundalk followed very closely by Syddan Runners but well done to Hunterstown Rovers GFC, Mattock Rangers GFC, Sean McDermots GFC and Ardee St. Mary’s Couch to 5K Group for doing so well in this new category.
Winners – Seamie Weldon Memorial Cup + 2nd Place
Winners – Jimmy Bradley Memorial Cup + 2nd Place
Winners – Seamie’s 5k Community Team of 2018
And to finish, a big well done to all our competitors, those who went home with a prize, those who obtained new personal best times and those who ran their first ever 5K. Ardee & District AC hope all of you achieved your personal goals and left with the self-satisfaction of having run a good race and a special thanks to Adrian Crawley Photography for all our race photographs.
Vist My Run Results to see all race results – https://www.myrunresults.com/race-results.aspx
More pictures of our race can be found on our Facebook page (click on the link attached to our Website) or @ArdeeSnapper/Adrian Crawley Photography – https://www.facebook.com/ArdeeSnapper