The JK is one of the biggest orienteering events on the BOF calender.
There was a lot of organising, from maps to car parking to getting enough volunteers. CNOC gave a hand with one of the Start teams for both the Middle and Long distance and a couple of control picker up'ers after the Long distance.
Now for the fun bit. Results!
In the Sprint, CNOC had 18 runners. Full results here. However, the pick of the bunch was Caoimhe O'Boyle finishing 2nd in the W14 sprint, crossing the line less than one min down on the winner. Not to be out done, Seamus O'Boyle and Niamh O'Boyle also succeeded in WOC qualification for the Sprint race.
Day 2 brought CNOC manning the starts and the Middle Distance race. Full results are here. We had 26 runners on the start line. Pick of the bunch was Kev O'Boyle in 9th on M20E, while Pat Healy got the better of the CNOC vets. However, once again, the CNOC women showed the mens said how its meant to be done. Laoise Ryan came home in 6th on W10B, in the W18L, Dee Ryan was 2nd, Niamh O'Boyle came 20th in W Elite. Ruth Lyanam crossed the line in 3rd in the W55L as well as Caoimhe O'Boyle in W14.
Day 2 was also CNOC's selection for the Relay and once again, miss punches, mistakes and dnf's gave the chairman the perfect opportunity to make two perfectly even CNOC mens senior teams (see below).
Sunday dawned early and sunny. The terrain was fast open mountain. An Irish specialty?
Sean Ryan had a storming run to finish 2nd on M14B, in the Mens 55L, Pat Healy jumped from 52nd to 23rd and stayed top of the CNOC bunch ahead of Senan and Don.
In the womens Laoise Ryan was 5th in W10B, scary Caoimhe O'Boyle was 2nd on W14 less than 30sec down, in the same class Siobhan Delaney just missed out on a top 10 finishing in 11th. Dee Ryan finish 3rd in W18L. Ruth Lyanam (W110??) won day 2 by over 1:30mins. All in all, the mountain results were much better. Full CNOC results here
Over all CNOC had a pretty successful weekend. CNOC had 4 runners finishing in the Top 5.. all of which were running the Women classes.
Roll of Honor
Laoise Ryan 5th W10B
Caoimhe O'Boyle 1st W14A
Dee Ryan 1st W18L
Ruth Lynam 2nd W55L
Overall results can be found here
Now, the really fun bit. Relays!
Everyone knows that there is no better rivalry than in house rivalry. CNOC had 2 JK Trophy Teams. Kev O'B, Ruairi S and Colm H -V- Conor S, Hugh C, Shea O'B. Needless to say the underdogs won, again! The chairman isn't very good at picking teams ;)
CNOC had 7 relay teams across a range of categories. The two JK trophy teams were shocking. The "2nd team" finished 18th, been beaten by 3roc, GEN and CorkO. Our "1st team" did even worse, finishing in 20th. *thats enough of a wrist slapping for now*
In Womens +120, Carol Ross came back first, the guts of 4mins clear. Bernie and Ruth brought the team home in 9th. In Mens +165, Don, Senan and Tom finished in 35th and top Irish Relay team in the group.
In Mixed Ad Hoc, the biggest of all the relays, CNOC had 3 teams. Tony, Bridget and Brian finished in 14th (2nd Irish Club). The second CNOC team consisting of Dee, Caoimhe and Dee(?) [I think Sean was running... mix up of maps maybe] finished 34th but were n/c and the 3rd CNOC team was the Delaney's, Brendan, Siobhan and Joseph came home in 52nd.
Full Relay results here.
All in all a good weekend. If anyone has any photos, send them on and I'll throw them into this post.
