Collins inaugurates Seefingan route
A long Leinster League season nears the end and the first signs of fatigue may have been apparent at the running of the new Seefingan course was 135 runners took the field. Or perhaps it was an air of post-script with Barry Minnock and Rathfarnham WSAF having wrapped up the individual and team titles last week…
This made for an open race where Diarmaid Collins of East Cork could take his first Leinster League victory ahead of Eoin Keith, Boards AC, and Des Kennedy who continued his excellent recent form by going one better than his result at Fraughen Rock Glenn three days earlier. Suzanne Kenny, now Clonliffe Harriers, notched another victory in her quest for the title. Raheny’s Kate Cronin and Anne Marie Peters had a close battle behind her in which the former eventually won out.
Four teams also took the field in the men’s competition. Boards AC and UCD became the only teams in the league to have contested every single of the eleven races so far. Boards further added to a memorable season for their team by taking the victory ahead of UCD with outgoing champions Sli Cualann in third. Crusaders ladies continued their procession towards the title as they ran home unopposed for the second week running.
It wasn’t all joy as one runner complained about the roughness of the terrain on the new course! In contrast, long time mountain aficionados rather gleefully commented on the “bogfest” and bogholes especially on the new long climb to Seefingan which towers about 100m above the original peaks on the route, Seahan and Corrig.
Results now online at IMRA.
