tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-364994932012-01-27T23:05:43.510ZWelcome to the Running in Cork blog, the largest website in Cork & Munster for news on road races and athletics. Included are a current race calendar, race previews, photos, results as well as some local, national and international news items.John Desmondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02156613639160765654noreply@blogger.comBlogger1676125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36499493.post-19555227090683847962012-01-27T20:39:00.000Z2012-01-27T20:39:35.434Z2012-01-27T20:39:35.434Z

The Tokyo Marathon Foundation have announced that a doping test performed at the Feb. 27, 2011 Tokyo Marathon on women's winner Tatyana Aryasova of Russia returned positive for HES (hydroxyethyl starch), a banned substance typically used to conceal use of other banned performance-enhancing substances.  As a result of the positive test, Aryasova has been stripped of her 2011 title as she failed

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The article below was written by John Walshe and appeared in the Irish Runner magazine back in 2005. It is republished here with their kind permission. Even though the article is some seven years old, I believe that it is still as relevant today as it was back then. At present, there are a number of evening winter leagues taking place mainly in east Munster. I have details of these up on the

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For anyone doing the Dungarvan 10 mile road race next Sunday, there is a preview of the course up now on the Running in Munster site. This race is pre-entry only and there are no entries on the day. For the first time, there will be pacers for the Dungarvan race this year. There will be two pacers for each of the following times.....70...75...80...85 and 90. Mallow '10'...Also a reminder that

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This panel debate took place on the iTalk Sport show on Setanta Sports recently. Host Paul Kimmage goes head to head with Ian O'Riordan of the Irish Times about Martin Fagan's use of the drug EPO. O'Riordan broke the news on Fagan in an exclusive interview and some people feel he may have been too easy on him. Unless something major really happens, this hopefully will be the last post on this

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I came across a piece recently about the economic impact of the Miami Half-Marathon and Marathon in Florida. The event, set for Sunday, January 29, is expected to generate more than $45 million for the local economy this year in the form of hotel bookings, restaurant spending, transportation, shopping and entertainment. This will exceed the $41.4 million that the event generated in 2011 which

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In the last three races that Fionnuala Britton of Ireland has won, the one athlete who has been ever present and pushing her to the line on each occasion has been Gemma Steel of Great Britain. When Fionnuala Britton won the European Cross Country Championships last December, Gemma Steel was in third place and just nine seconds behind. In the Great Edinburgh Cross Country race on the 7th of

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These are two online newspaper articles that I came across recently... In the first article, the Independent looks at Brother Colm O'Connell who is a 63-year-old Irish missionary and retired teacher. When he arrived in Kenya in 1976, he was a geography teacher and got involved later in the athletics training programme. After a short period, he took over and  ended up training some of the best

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With entries to the Ballycotton '10' and the Dungarvan '10' now closed, the next big ten mile race in Munster after that is the Mallow 10 mile road race on Monday, the 19th of March 2012 at 12:30pm. Sponsored by Kostal Ireland and organised by Mallow AC, this race attracted 750 runners last year and they hope to get closer to the 1,000 mark this year. Located in north Cork, Mallow is within

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A new study published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine points to undiagnosed cardiac disease as a contributing factor in Marathon deaths.  While running marathons statistically is still very safe, there are usually a number of deaths every year worldwide. Doctors at some of the larger US Marathons have found that out of those who were resuscitated, many had consumed a couple of

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There were two newspaper articles today about Martin Fagan and his two year ban for taking EPO. In the first one in the Irish Times, Ian O'Riordan talks about the original interview with Fagan and how the story broke. In the second one in the Sunday Independent, Eamonn Sweeney doesn't mince his words as he writes a piece that is critical of Fagan and the way the Irish Times covered the story.

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Just in...Fionnuala Britton has won the Antrim IAAF Cross Country competition. This was her 4th race in as many weeks. Running neck and neck with Gemma Steel of the UK until the last lap, Fionnuala pulled away for a convincing victory! Is this woman ever going to rest??? ;o) Senior Women                   1    37    Fionnuala Britton        IRL    00:19:32 2    35    Gemma Steel        GBR

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Australian ultra-marathon man Pat Farmer on Thursday completed an epic run from the North Pole to the South Pole in a feat of endurance he said would take its toll on his body for as long as he lived. The 48-year-old former politician set off from the North Pole on April 2 last year with the emotional Farmer finally planting a Red Cross flag 21,000 kilometres (13,000 miles) later at the world's

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Professor David Cowan, the chief drugs scientist of the 2012 London Olympic Games revealed on Thursday night that this summer’s Olympics will feature around 5,000 separate urine and blood samples – eclipsing the previous high of 4,770 at the Beijing Games in 2008 – and another 1,250 at the Paralympics. As well as the random sampling, all Olympic medalists will be tested as a matter of routine.

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This news item appeared in Bloomberg a few days ago. While it relates to pedestrians, it is also relevant to runners as well wearing headphones.According to a recent U.S. study, the number of headphone-wearing pedestrians seriously injured or killed near roadways and railways has tripled in six years. The number of cases rose from 16 in 2004-2005 to 47 in 2010-2011, according to the research

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Back at the start of January I had a post up about Fionnuala Britton having been nominated as the European Athlete of the month for December 2011. It now looks as if all of those votes counted as the European Athletics website made the following announcement today (Thurs 19th Jan 2012)........ European Athletics is pleased to announce that the 2011 SPAR European Cross Country Championships

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US jogger Joseph Finley was out for his early-morning jog along Lake Michigan recently when two pit bulls viciously attacked him during , an assault that ended up with the loss of his left foot. "I couldn't believe these dogs were attacking me. I couldn't believe this was happening to me," he said from a hospital bed at John H. Stroger Jr., Hospital of Cook County on Tuesday. "The only thing in

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This poll started off on the Running in Cork Facebook page when I asked the 1,000 or so subscribers there to nominate their best race in Cork for 2011. It soon became obvious that there were just too many races! So I broke it down by distance and the Facebook users selected the races as shown in the polls on the right. They are for the best 5k, 4 mile, 5 mile and 10k race in Cork and the best

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Following on from the breaking news story last weekend, Irish Marathon runner Martin Fagan was as expected, suspended on Tuesday for two years by Athletics Ireland after he admitted using banned performance-enhancing drugs. The 28-year-old from Mullingar tested positve for the blood-boosting drug erythropoietin (EPO).during an out-of-competition test at his training base in the United States

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So here we go, the full list of the 3,600 or so entants for the 2012 Ballycotton '10' road race... The list in numerical order is HERE The list in alphabethical order is HERE So some of you got in and obviously, some didn't. The last time when I put up the first 2,500 entries, I got some comments like these and to be frank, some are pretty childish... 1) Posted in GPO Tuesday evening and

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First of all, a bit of background to this story. Back in August 2011, I had a story about the UCC grounds at Curraheen, otherwise known as the UCC Farm being developed into a Science and Innovation Park. The Farm is popular with a lot of runners as it is one of the few areas near Cork City that is away from traffic and the soft surface is easier to run on than the hard concrete and tarmac of the

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This article was written by John Walshe and appeared in the Evening Echo at the start of 2011. This month is now the 40th anniversary of this particular race and the article is re-produced here with John's kind permission... John Hartnett, John Buckley and Donie Walsh 40 YEARS AGO - MEMORABLE CORK CROSS-COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIP By John Walshe (Evening Echo) On the first Sunday of January 1972,

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There was an article on the BBC News website recently about the growing trend towards extreme sports. Besides the growing popularity of Marathons, Triathlons and new events like adventure races, mud races and assault course races are on the increase. There were 850 triathlon events in England, Scotland and Wales in 2011, 99 more than 2010.These are some of the more bizarre events...Tough Guy:

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In the Houston Marathon on Sunday, 15th of Jan 2012, Ava Hutchinson of Dundrum South Dublin Athletic Club finished in 4th place in a time of 2:35:33. This was faster than the 'A' standard of 2:37 required to qualify to run for Ireland in the Olympics in London this year. She now provisionally joins Linda Byrne who ran 2:36:21 in the Dublin Marathon last October. Also in action in Houston was

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Fionnuala Britton finished 8th in the Seville International Cross Country race in Spain. Results below... This time, she finished 7 seconds behind the Italian Nadia Ejjafini who she beat by 18 seconds back in December. Perhaps racing three races in as many weeks is taking it's toll? Her next race is in Antrim next week.

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At least 1,000 runners and family members will be trained in CPR the weekend before this year’s Boston Marathon, after local researchers found that immediate use of the procedure could have saved many of the runners who have died from cardiac arrest during a marathon or half-marathon. “The number-one predictor of survival of cardiac arrest during a race was whether a runner had access to

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