Weekly Report – 3rd June-9th June 2024
CS Lewis 5 Mile Challenge
Several members of OAC were taking part in the CS Lewis 5 Mile Challenge on Friday night. The race starts and finishes at CS Lewis Square with a few laps of Victoria Park in between. A lap of the island in Victoria Park is included meaning this is a mixed terrain race with 40% on trail and 10% on grass.
Even though our bitter rivals Victoria Park & Connswater Athletics Club organise this race we are a gracious enough club that we can admit that it was a fantastic event and very well organised. There were great times from all our runners in this one, the post-race beers were well-earned!
Danny Bradley – 27.20
Robin Montgomery – 35.14
Michael O’Donoghue – 35.40
Edwina Ternan – 36.11
Pauline Bayliss – 36.12
Tom Smith – 37.29
Colin Simpson – 38.12
Sarah Steer – 38.36
Gillian McGucken – 44.59
Eoghan Rainey – 45.17
Parkrun Report
08/06/2024
Even with the CS Lewis 5 Mile Challenge the night before we still had a great turnout for parkrun. There was the usual tourism with 4 of us visiting new locations; Jean Stone in Navan, Keith Weir at Queen’s parkrun Glasgow, Alison Canning at Holyrood and Eleanor Acheson at The Fisherman’s Walk. Alison Canning leads the way in locations with these folks with Holyrood being her 62nd location.
There was a big Orangegrove milestone this week also, with Danny Bradley’s run at Valley, Newtownabbey being his 100th parkrun. Congratulations Danny! If his PB of 16.22 at Victoria Park wasn’t impressive enough, out of the 100 he has finished first 22 times, at 15 different locations. There’s still plenty of time to complete the dream of a 1st place finish in each of the parkruns in Northern Ireland as well.
Great running everyone!
Results
Navan
Jean Stone – 32.56
Belfast Victoria
Thomas Leitch – 19.39
Gavin McGucken – 19.49
Andrew Carson – 21.59
Tom Smith – 22.21
Paul Woodman – 24.09
Luke Reid – 25.19
George Gribben – 29.24
Omagh
Adrian Sproule – 31.47
Ormeau
Chris Heaney – 23.46
Ruchill
Hannah Montgomery – 34.04
Bangor
Martina Saravia – 26.23
Simon Cordoba – 26.44
Valley parkrun, Newtownabbey
Danny Bradley – 19.08
Stormont
Kimberley Reynolds – 24.43
Verity Cornford – 27.34
Jill Holland – 30.25
Lisa Fleming – 30.26
Sharon Corken – 30.26
Orangefield
Andrew McIntyre – 22.25
Robin Montgomery – 22.56
Colin Simpson – 25.19
David Gilliland – 25.30
Heather Flint – 26.12
David Fletcher – 26.15
Gerald Harvey – 29.06
Eric Fairfield – 32.48
Queen’s parkrun, Glasgow
Keith Weir – 19.52
Crawfordsburn
Michael O’Donoghue – 29.24
Hillsborough Forest
Stephen Uprichard – 24.46
Holyrood
Alison Canning – 25.44
The Fisherman’s Walk
Eleanor Acheson – 34.41
