Ajax Orienteering & Hill Running Club

It's a good season so far for the Longs and the O'Cleirighs.   Cathal O'Cleirigh won M12 in the Connacht Champs and Roisin Long won W12 there.    Running in M10, Ruari Long has won both Munster and Connacht Champs.

At the other end of the scale Aongus O'Cleirigh is still decimating the oppositon with wins in both events in M45.

Here's Ruari with his trophies and himself and Roisin at Lough Key.

From Mike Long, Ajax

Folks

Just to clarify that Marlay Park event on Sun 2 Nov is a "Fingal style" scatter event with a mass start at 12pm (not 11 to 1 as stated
in the fixtures list).

Start will be in the back car park near the BMX track and tennis court (not the front car park near Marlay House).

20 controls in total, long does any 18, medium does any 12 and short 8.

See you there!

Mike

If you said you were going to the Trail O Champs to beat all the LVO heads pipping no less than Wilbert Hollinger on the timed sections, I don't doubt that there would be some who would mutter into their beards and express doubts about your sanity.

Cian O'Reilly can take a great deal of satisfaction in having done precisely that at the championships two weeks ago.
If you look at the results on the link below you will see Cian's name at the top of the list having beaten all the LVO gang.
http://nio.jeit.biz/lvo/trailo-2008/

The Ajax team took fourth position in the relay but also played a hand in the winning team.  Niall Ewen, pictured below, led out the race at the 7am start, guesting for the CNOC winning team.

Mike Long put in a strong finish over the long last leg over Lugnaquilla to pull back two positions for the fourth slot.   Ajax team was Peter Kernan, Andrew McCarthy, Mike Long.

Photo: Gerry Brady IMRA

Report:   http://www.imra.ie/events/view/id/528/

Paul Smyth, Ajax ,won race 2, went into the 22Km final needing to finish ahead to win the Series.     Both Paul and Moira made errors in the early stages and with the race splintered by route choice options, who would get back first wasn't clear.
In the end Moire's relentless pushing on saw her cut back across from Corrig directly to the Lough Brae finish well clear of Paul.
Aonghus O'Cleirigh(Ajax)'s time of 3hrs 17mins gave him the win on the day but Moire came in second to take the series.
Organiser, Joe Lalor, has put together a brand that works well.   Pushes to the limit physically and punishes you if you let your brain slip.   Well worth getting to next year.

Photos: http://www.imra.ie

http://www.imra.ie/events/view/id/525/

Peter Kernan

Roisin Long  (Ajax, Loreto Grange Road) has run almost 20 events this season. But the most satisfying ones must be the 3 Primary Schools Events in which she won every event.
The last one, the Leinster Championships, at St Anne's Park she won in a time 10 mins ahead of 2nd place.
Definitely a big  "Well done" from all the club.
Here she is on a bright April Sunday at Carlingford.