Category Archives: Club Race

NAC Goes Metric.

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Bogus boy reports from the Dundrum Road.

A movie character was once asked why a quarter pounder with cheese was called a Royale with Cheese (other burgers and franchises are available!) in Paris. He was told that because of the metric system they would not know what a quarter pounder was (the words in the movie may have been a tad stronger). In a reversal of this, Newcastle AC went ‘old school’ for the annual club handicap and the metric 5k became an imperial 3 miles. Why was this the case – well obviously it was to facilitate the parking of the van in a convenient location and not because the telegraph pole with the yellow sticker could not be located!

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Newcastle AC 5 mile Handicap 12 Dec 2023

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Results to the club’s 5 mile handicap race are available here.

Butcher Kelly - Club Handicap Winner 2023

Butcher Kelly – Club Handicap Winner 2023

The Annual Club 5-mile Handicap is the stuff of legends. In the days of yore, people were known to have eaten a hefty turkey and ham lunch, washed down with half a dozen pints of stout and romp to victory. There is also the tendency to arrive and proffer all sorts of excuses about how badly you are running, how out of shape you are and the struggle it will be to even complete 5 miles, let alone run them at any kind of tempo. Continue reading →

Club Handicap – Tuesday 21 December 2021

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The annual Christmas 5-mile club handicap took place on Tuesday 21 December.

Thanks to Jerome, Francie, Gillian, Ernie, Danny and Connaire for officiating and marshalling along the way. Getting it 100% right is an impossible task and we recognise that a few were sent out too early and a few were sent out too late. Nevertheless, it was good fun and an opportunity to run as hard or as easy as your fitness levels and other training priorities allowed for.

Position   Name  Finish Time  Actual Time 
1 Tom Crudgington 38:06 27:06
2 James King 39:27 29:27
3 Neil McGeough 39:47 27:47
4 Jerome Farrell 40:03 36:03
5 Sinead Murtagh 40:06 32:06
6 Aidan Brown 40:20 27:20
7 Brian McVeigh 40:24 31:24
8 Mickey Flynn 40:33 32:33
9 Gerry Kingston 40:42 34:14
10 Franky McGivern 40:47 32:47
11 Lorna Cunningham 41:00 35:00
12 Joe McCann 41:09 34:09
13 Mark Keane 41:13 34:13
14 Niall Carson 41:18 41:18
15 John O’Higgins 41:24 34:24
16 Frank Cunningham 42:22 32:22
17 Benoit Le Houerou 42:43 33:43