Archive | November, 2010

Snow in the Derry Air: Sunday 28th Nov 2010

The national cross-country championships were run in a snow-covered course in Derry on Sunday. Despite the arctic conditions over the weekend a number of our athletes made the perilous journey. Understandably some did not make the trip with the result that it was left to individuals rather than teams to carry the Kilkenny colours. And […]

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County Novice Cross Country Championships: Nov 14th 2010

Titles for Power and Barcoe A veteran runner of many races, Margaret Power, Thomastown took the Novice Ladies cross-country title in Kilmacow on Sunday. Margaret set to her task from the start and was the front runner throughout the 3K race. In contrast, Oonagh Hennessy, KCH, in this her second  race in cross-country, tracked Power […]

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Juvenile County Cross Country B Championships

KCH Girls Sweep Clean Boys and girls gathered in great numbers for the Even-Ages Juvenile B Cross-country championships at a sun-drenched Kilmacow course on Sunday. The hard-working members of host club, St Senan’s, marshalled a well laidout course and with Ed Williams on the whistle there was no letup from start to finish. Kilkenny City […]

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Medals Galore in Wexford

Kilkenny athletes had another successful cross-country day at the Leinster Championships in Adamstown, Co Wexford on Sunday. A total of seventyone medals were won. These included nineteen won by individuals who will now go forward to compete on Leinster teams in the national finals in Tullamore on the 19th December. These will be joined by […]

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Leinster Cross Country: Intermediate, 7th Nov 2010

A First For Sheehan Gowran’s Niall Sheehan gave an exhibition in cross-country running at the Leinster Intermediate 10K cross-country championships in Adamstown on Sunday. Niall was part of a group of twelve runners who got away from the field over the first lap of a seven-lap course. By the half way stage he was the […]

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