Aidan Callaghan made his World Championship Debut for Ironman in Hawaii with some impressive times.
Callaghan made his World championship debut in Kona Hawaii. We had another interest in the race as Bryan Mc Crystal who won our Olympic race as a warm up race for iron Man Bolton also took part.
Callaghan finished 89th in his age group and 383rd overall. He swam very well swimming the 3.8k swim in 54 minutes and averaged 36.8kmh on the 180k cycle dealing with cross winds and head winds but found the heat hard to cope with on the marathon portion of the race. Everyone was glued to the race which started 6.00pm our time with Aidan completing the course in a credible time of 9.54.06.
He had able support from wife to be Catherine Regan as well as from his parents Christy and Maeve. Bryan Mc Crystal was best of the Irish in a time of 9.12.08 thanks in the main to a superb bike time of 4.29.14. Aidan’s splits were 54.05, 5.07.57 and 3.43.29.
Jan Frodeno of Germany defended his professional title with splits of 48.02 ,4.29.34 and 2.45.34 finishing in 8.06.30
Other races
Phillip Browne ran the three quarters marathon in Athlone in a time of 2.33.17 finishing with a negative split which augurs well for him for the Dublin Marathon at the end of the month.
In the Donegal Cross country race held in Fanad, Natasha Kelly was second woman home with Siobhan Gallagher fourth. Siobhan was part of the silver winning Letterkenny Athletics team and Natasha was part of the bronze winning team from Finn Valley. Well done to both women.
Liam Tinney was part of the Gold winning team from Letterkenny Athletics club in the mens race.
Colin Dean made a welcome return to racing in completing a half marathon in the cathedral city of Salisbury in Wiltshire in a time of 1.28.40
National Duathlon Series
The fixture list for 2017 has been published and Letterkenny will be hosting a Sprint race on the fifth of March 2017 . To be eligible for a ranking you have to do three races in total one of which is the national championship race in Clarenbridege in Galway on the twelth of March. There are nine races in total. Full details are on the triathlon Ireland website so people can plan their races.
National Triathlon series
The club was unsuccessful in its application for a National Series race . It is still proposed that we run a sprint and Olympic race in mid July 2017. We are awaiting clarification on the date that we will be holding our race.
Letterkenny AC
Letterkenny Athletics Club have offered club members the opportunity to train during the winter with
their club . This also facilitates the casual use of downstairs shower facilities at Aura and also the opportunity to race cross country. Contact any committee member for details.
Other news
The Club AGM will be held on the 21st of October in the Glengesh room at the education centre in St. Conal’s Hospital at 19.30. (please note the changed venue) Nominations are invited for Chairman, Secretary, Treasurer, Pro and eight committee members. Please have nominations delivered to Pauric Kelly by Wednesday 19.10.16.
Any motions must also be sent in by that date with a proposer and seconder and either must be in attendance to discuss the motion.
The club night out is provisionally set for the 2nd of December in Arena 7.
Anne Robinson has collated the race results from the time trials and Brick sessions. We hope to have it ready for publication next week. On the mens front it definitely seems that the veterans are to the fore.
