Local runners Donal Coffey, Brian Murphy and Donal Cashman pictured rounding the cross at the top of Clara this evening in the Clara Mountain Run 2011. A beautiful evening with for running. Donal Coffey was in the lead at the cross on top of the mountain despite going a little off course on the way up, but unfortunately was soon passed on the way down. Results will be posted in the next few days when available.
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John Tarrant was also at the Start/Finish line taking photos and sent us the two photos above of the runners starting off and Paul Tierney coming in to the finish line to take win.
More photos below: … and there should be more photos, but I ran out of battery 🙁
The race was won in a time of 31.18 by Paul Tierney and he writes about his race in his blog overtrailsandhills.blogspot.com :
This was a real ball breaker of a race right from the word go. Thats the difference when its a short and sharp blast I suppose. Its a real shock to the system at this stage whenever I do this type of race because … … … as I was worried about how my legs would feel on the harder ground, especially as I had done 9 and a half miles in the forest at home earlier in the morning … Read the full article
and there’s a slideshow of photos from the race on the IMRA website
Results of the 2011 Clara Mountain Run (from imra.ie)
| 1 | Paul Tierney | 520 | M | 31:20:00 | 124.1 | 137.7 | Eagle | Cork |
| 2 | Rob Cleary | 1603 | M | 31:21:00 | 124 | 137.6 | Clonliffe… | Cork |
| 3 | Mike Cunningham | 1523 | M40 | 31:30:00 | 123.5 | 136.9 | Bilboa AC | Limerick |
| 4 | Stephen Cleary | 1001 | M | 31:40:00 | 122.8 | 136.2 | Clonliffe… | Cork |
| 5 | Donal Coffey | 1605 | M | 31:58:00 | 121.7 | 134.9 | Leevale | Cork |
| 6 | James Doran | 1506 | M | 32:07:00 | 121.1 | 134.3 | Riocht | Kerry |
| 7 | Tom Blackburn | 1502 | M40 | 32:42:00 | 118.9 | 131.9 | Bilboa AC | Limerick |
| 8 | Sean Harte | 1512 | M | 33:53:00 | 114.8 | 127.3 | Cork orie… | Waterford |
| 9 | Kieran Collins | 1602 | M | 34:07:00 | 114 | 126.4 | Leevale | Cork |
| 10 | Ger Griffin | 1522 | M50 | 34:36:00 | 112.4 | 124.7 | ||
| 11 | Brian Murphy | 1552 | M | 34:40:00 | 112.2 | 124.4 | Cork | |
| 12 | Brian Flannelly | 1541 | M | 35:40:00 | 109 | 120.9 | Cork Orie… | Tipperary |
| 13 | John Paul Daly | 519 | M40 | 35:51:00 | 108.5 | 120.3 | Eagle | |
| 14 | Antony Cornforth | 1557 | M40 | 36:00:00 | 108 | 119.8 | ||
| 15 | John Hallahan | 1526 | M40 | 36:02:00 | 107.9 | 119.7 | Leevale | Cork |
| 16 | Gerry McCarthy | 1520 | M40 | 36:22:00 | 106.9 | 118.6 | Kerry | |
| 17 | Donal Cashman | 1559 | M40 | 37:26:00 | 103.9 | 115.2 | Cork | |
| 18 | Mary Louise Ryan | 1532 | F | 38:04:00 | 102.1 | 113.3 | Bilboa AC | Limerick |
| 19 | Joe Aherne | 1601 | M50 | 38:31:00 | 101 | 112 | Bilboa AC | Limerick |
| 20 | John Shanahan | 1570 | MJ | 38:50:00 | 100.1 | 111.1 | Bilboa AC | |
| 21 | John O’Dwyer | 1533 | M | 39:17:00 | 99 | 109.8 | Bilboa AC | Tipperary |
| 22 | Kieran Lynch73 | 1547 | M | 39:29:00 | 98.5 | 109.2 | ||
| 23 | Carol Finn | 1556 | F | 40:07:00 | 96.9 | 107.5 | Duhallow AC | Cork |
| 24 | Barry Horgan | 1569 | M | 40:13:00 | 96.7 | 107.2 | Cork | |
| 25 | Edward Donovan | 1564 | M | 40:22:00 | 96.3 | 106.9 | Cork | |
| 26 | Sarah Hudson | 1543 | F | 40:29:00 | 96 | 106.5 | ||
| 27 | Deirdre Finn | 1514 | F40 | 40:33:00 | 95.9 | 106.4 | Tipperary | |
| 28 | Kevin Wilkinson | 1531 | M | 41:40:00 | 93.3 | 103.5 | ||
| 29 | Andrew Farley | 1554 | M40 | 42:14:00 | 92.1 | 102.1 | Limerick | |
| 30 | Loretto Duggan | 1508 | F | 42:20:00 | 91.8 | 101.9 | St. Marys… | Clare |
| 31 | Majella Diskin | 1558 | F50 | 43:22:00 | 89.7 | 99.5 | Tralee Mo… | Kerry |
| 32 | Ide Kelleher | 1568 | F | 43:30:00 | 89.4 | 99.2 | Mallow AC | Cork |
| 33 | John Paul Murphy Cork | 1563 | M | 44:26:00 | 87.5 | 97.1 | Cork | |
| 34 | Mary McEvoy | 1562 | F | 45:24:00 | 85.6 | 95 | Cork | |
| 35 | James Melody | 1606 | M | 46:30:00 | 83.6 | 92.8 | ||
| 36 | Denise Cahalane | 1604 | F | 47:40:00 | 81.6 | 90.5 | Cork | |
| 37 | Mike Thompson | 1555 | M50 | 48:25:00 | 80.3 | 89.1 | Bilboa AC | |
| 38 | Patrick Cleary | 1510 | M60 | 48:30:00 | 80.2 | 88.9 | Kerry O | Kerry |
| 39 | Patrick Lonergan | 1566 | M60 | 50:34:00 | 76.9 | 85.3 | Bilboa AC | Limerick |
| 40 | Joe Laffan | 1548 | M60 | 51:14:00 | 75.9 | 84.2 | Limerick | Limerick |
| 41 | Bernard Collins | 1561 | M60 | 56:41:00 | 68.6 | 76.1 | Limerick | Limerick |
| 42 | Breda McEvoy | 1565 | F | 58:00:00 | 67 | 74.4 | Cork | |
| 43 | Denise Hallihan | 1527 | FJ | 69:29:00 | 55.9 | 62.1 | Cork |
