The final track session of the season was on Saturday with the club championships involving a 200m , 1500m and final 4x400m mixed relay. Big thanks to Myles and Emily for organising the event and all the helpers taking the times, doing race numbers, organising the food and stopping the cheating.
First up was the 200m sprint. Runners had to first solve the problem of what the metal object at the start lines were, how do you get in and out of them and why they were being used to slow people down.
The mens race was a very tight finish between Brian Byrne (who has been talking about this race for the last month) and 200m new comer Conor McCarty. Its been a tough year for Wexford and Saturday was no different with Brian just edging Conor out.
In the ladies race it was not as close with the current 200m ladies record holder Elaine Kennedy showing how it is done.
Next up was the 1500m. Again anyone new to track running it can be hard to judge how to pace the nearly 4 laps. Maria Jones back from injury led start to finish to make it two years in a row with Katie Nugent timing the last lap perfectly to take second with Mayo Thirty year old Maura Ginty taking third.
In the mens 1500m Gareth is still regretting the holiday he took 2 years ago ruining his drive for 5 but showed despite large marathon mileage he still has a lot of pace. 5 seconds split 1st, 2nd and 3rd with Gareth getting his name on the trophy again, Conor McCarthy getting his second silver of the day and sleep deprived Andrew Brett getting an excellent third.
The final race was the mixed 4x400m relay. The first job was to match the names of the people on your team with their faces and hope to god they showed up so you wouldn’t not have to do 2 laps. I had to do 2 laps (someone is not getting any Strava Kudo’s for awhile). I think everyone felt the 400m team pressure to do well but its always amazing how some runners can make track running look easy. Padraig didn’t look like he broke sweat to out sprint Andrew.
The winning team was Gareth Murran, Joe Byrne and Gemma White. Some say the team was slowed down by all the holes in Joe’s singlet and by not putting Gemma in to do the 2 laps but they were still clear winners.
All the results are up in the clubhouse and there is a small mountain of photographs below.
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