Mullingar Harriers was certainly the envy of other Clubs at the Leinster juvenile cross country relays at Tinryland on Sunday 20th January. To win one team gold medal at a Leinster Championship is a good result, to win all six titles on offer is astounding and is clear evidence if any is needed of what an excellent group of underage athletes the Club is fortunate to have at the moment. A clean sweep of the titles hasn’t been done before, so again, Mullingar Harriers sets a new standard. Clearly the preparatory work put in by Joe Ryan on the training ground paid off handsomely, but also the excellent conditioning work in the gym with Tommy Carr really paid a rich dividend over the shorter faster race distances.

Under 12 girls 4 x 250m

Caoimhe Shaw, Ann Marie Kennedy, Aisling Bracken, Lauren Casey - 1st

Faye Walsh, Edel Glennon, Emma Glynn, Niamh Quinn

Laura Whitelaw, Rachel Glennon, Jessica McCormack, Jennifer Coughlan

Under 12 boys 4 x 250m

Glenn Gaffney, Liam O’Reilly, Padraig Moran, Oisin Quinn - 1st

Patrick Shaw, Kevin Giles, Cormac Dalton, Stephen Nea

Under 14 girls 4 x 500m

Linda Conroy, Lorraine Daly, Elizabeth Carr, Beth McGuire - 1st

Under 14 boys 4 x 500m

Patrick Fagan, Thomas Lynn, Shane Fitzpatrick, Philip Giles - 1st

Ian McCormack, Stephen Nea decided to run a 2 x 500m ...!!

Under 16 girls 4 x 500m

Lisa Darby, Arlene Coughlan, Amie Giles, (blond) Aoife Hogan - 1st

Under 16 boys 4 x 500m

David Moran, Warren Walsh, Jake Byrne, Diarmaid Hyland - 1st

Relay racing is all about team effort and everyone must play their full part if a team is to succeed. The juveniles showed great commitment to each other and ran their hearts out to try and give as much lead as possible to their team mates. Enormous credit must go to them all for competing so well and being a part of a historic day for the Club. It was heartening to see the delight taken in the Club’s success by all the athletes, whether they won medals or not.