William Maunsell sets a New Course record for the 4K

The 3^rd race of the Clonmel AC’s very popular Pre-Christmas 4K road race series sponsored by O Reilly’s Total Health Pharmacy, Gladstone Street took place tonight in wet conditions with a heavy mist greeting the athletes at every corner. Such conditions didn’t deter William Maunsell from running a brilliant race. Going out very fast from the start William soon had the entire field in Indian file, going through halfway in 6 mins 10 secs, he kept that strong tempo going to come home when coming home a very clear winner in 12 mins 21 secs, fantastic performance. The old course record of 12 mins 27 secs was set in 2015 by William.

The Club would like to thank Barry Horgan for such generous sponsorship. The Club would also like to thank the Brothers of Charity for the use of their carpark as race headquarters and to the Red Cross for First Aid.
Tonight’s format was a Lucky Dip, this is where predetermined finishing positions are drawn before the race starts and the people who finish in these Lucky positions will win a Cash prize. Tonight’s winners included John Shanahan 12^th in 16:28, Elaine Morrissey 24^th in 18 mins, Billy o Grady 36^th in 20:07 and Thomas Moloney 48^th in 24:49.

We also presented 10 Spot prizes of Umbrellas among the finishers. Everyone who competed tonight was entered into a Draw for a very generous Hamper sponsored by O Reilly’s Total Health Pharmacy and the winner was Pat O Connor who was 11^th in 16:21. There will be a hamper raffled off at the next week’s race which is the last one of the O Reilly Total health Pharmacy series. Then on December 11^th we will hold our Charity 4k in aid of C Saw where all monies donated on the night will go to this very worthy cause.

The first three Men in tonight’s race were William Maunsell 1st in 12 mins 21 secs, 2nd Jimmy Boland in 13 mins 56 secs and 3rd Anthony Bowen 14 mins 39 secs. The first 3 women were Angela McCann 6^th in 15:26, Grainne O Callaghan 18^th in 17:02 and 3^rd Yvonne O Connor 20^th in 17:17.

The Club would also like to thank our many stewards who ensured that the whole event was a great success, such help is always greatly appreciated.
Just a note on Safety for the remaining races in the series – No Headphones are allowed and we will be enforcing that rule going forward, it is there for your safety as well as everyone else. Also, everyone has to wear a HIGH VIZ, not a bright Yellow top. So again, NO REFLECTIVE HIGH VIZ – NO RUN

Place	Athletes name	Mins	Secs	Bib
1	William Maunsell	12	21	2
2	Jimmy Boland	13	56	3
3	Anthony Bowen	14	39	1
4	Conor Ryan	14	49	25
5	Patrick Roche	15	16	11
6	Angela McCann	15	26	13
7	Andrew Downey	15	32	23
8	Emmet Prendergast	15	59	8
9	John O Shea	16	3	4
10	Eddy O Donoghue	16	9	19
11	Pat O Connor	16	21	10
12	Craig Bryson	16	27	109
13	John Shanahan	16	28	15
14	Trevor Whelan	16	30	7
15	John Tobin	16	44	6
16	Kevin Tobin	16	53	21
17	Peter Kiely	16	54	16
18	Grainne O Callaghan	17	2	14
19	Gerard Murray	17	11	111
20	Mark Corcoran	17	15	9
21	Yvonne O Connor	17	17	18
22	Niall O Ceallaigh	17	20	17
23	Aisling English	17	38	24
24	Kieran O Meara	17	56	101
25	Elaine Morrissey	18	0	22
26	Eddie Prendergast	18	3	114
27	Shane Lonergan	18	8	12
28	Sareen Walsh	18	10	20
29	Niall Brannigan	18	11	100
30	Aidan Cremin	18	27	107
31	Gareth Coleman	18	46	104
32	Eddie Ormonde	19	12	207
33	Michael Morrissey	19	41	103
34	Eamon Sweeney	19	46	102
35	Donie Casey	19	51	112
36	Billy O Grady	20	7	108
37	Graham Swanton	20	12	113
38	Jimmy Lonergan	20	15	106
39	Anthony Landers	21	12	110
40	Bernie Hopkins	21	33	105
41	Ali O Connor	21	52	209
42	Niall McNicholas	22	17	202
43	Susan Moore	22	53	200
44	Joyce Cullinane	23	8	115
45	Cathy Mansfield	23	51	205
46	Nicola Ryan	24	25	204
47	Brian Sullivan	24	47	206
48	Sandra Curran	24	48	201
49	Thomas Moloney	24	49	208
50	Gail Long	25	19	212
51	Thomas Shelly	25	49	211
52	Mollie O Dwyer	28	1	210
53	John Morrissey	29	36	203