Cross Country Races! :)

Since we have returned to school after the Christmas holidays, we have had to very successful days at cross country races. One of the days was spent in DCU and the other was spent in the Phoenix park.
On Wednesday morning, the 19th of January, we headed off to DCU on the bus with our cross country trainers, Mr L and Ms McH. It was a really nice morning, with the sun shining in the sky, but it was quite fresh and cold, with some frost on the ground.
However, this didn't stop us from running and doing very well for the school. We had a junior team, a minor team, an inter team and a senior team. The races took place alternatively with the girls' age groups and the boy's age groups.
Our school got three individual prizes and three team prizes. I was running on the senior team along with Chloe, Caoimhe and Niamh, who are all in fifth year. Our race was 2km in distance. Unfortunately when I was on my second lap I hurt my leg and I had to slow down. Our team still came third because i finished the race.. AND, I received a free t-shirt for getting injured! :L

Last Thursday, the West-Leinsters took place in the Phoeinx Park. Again, we had four teams. The the distances were the same for everyone as the week before. The weather wasn't the best as there were random, heavy showers of rain every couple of minutes. It was also absolutely freezing! Myself, and Caoimhe didn't take part in this race as we had both taken part in a lot of training that week so we needed to rest for a day or two. We had one individual prize for the school and three team prizes. Also, the top fifteen girls in each race qualified for the Leinsters in Santry on the 16th of February.

Cross country takes place after school every Monday evening and Wednesday evening. It would be great to have some more girls from TY to come out and take part in cross country.

Niamh! :D