The final parkrun at Muckross saw our 3rd highest attendance of 133 people who ran, jogged or walked our two lap, undulating course for the last time. We welcomed 57 first timers and representatives of 16 different clubs took part. Special praise goes to the group from Malahide who left Dublin at 5am this morning to help celebrate our last Muckross run!

Congratulations to the 15 who recorded new Personal Bests and to Tim Long of An Riocht AC who led the field home for the 17th time pulling Shane O'Callaghan and Josh Moore to new PB's in 2nd and 3rd place.
Tim is seen below leading from the start with Ray Smith alongside him:

The ladies were led home by first time visitor Ciara Cummins from Templemore parkrun who set a new parkrun PB. Ciara is striding out at the start below:

Well done to Core Volunteer Ray Smith who beat both First Finishers on Age Grade scoring and was top of Age Grading for the 41st time!

Well done to Leonie Hussey O'Brien and Dermot Griffin who joined the 100 Club today with Leonie getting the loyalty award for her 99 runs in Killarney:

Our final Muckross run was celebrated with very special cakes:

Thank you Jennie Smith for your wonderful creations:

Many thanks to the 12 volunteers who made our last Muckross run possible:

Tom BYRNE, Ray SMITH, Mike RIORDAN, Tim O'LEARY, Siobhán DALY, Frances ROWLAND, Stella MALONEY, Eileen HAYES, Jake SMITH, Daniel SMITH, Jacek ZAKRZEWSKI, Mick ANGLIM

Today's full results and a complete event history can be found on the Killarney parkrun Results Page.

The female record is held by Carol FINN who recorded a time of 18:09 on 5th November 2016 (event number 72).
The male record is held by Matthieu MARSHALL who recorded a time of 15:48 on 8th July 2017 (event number 107).
The Age Grade course record is held by Niamh O'SULLIVAN who recorded 93.46% (19:22) on 16th March 2019 (event number 193).

Killarney parkrun started on 6th June 2015. Since then 3,200 participants have completed 10,863 parkruns covering a total distance of 54,315 km, including 1,674 new Personal Bests. A total of 185 individuals have volunteered 1,487 times.

This week 67 people ran, jogged or walked the course, of whom 31 were first timers and representatives of 13 different clubs took part.

Well done to the 5 who recorded new Personal Bests and to James Daley from Tralee parkrun who led the field home for the 2nd time and to Rachel Cohen of Bull City Track Club, Durham, North Carolina who led the ladies home on her first ever parkrun. James has done 48 parkruns, all but 3 in Tralee, but set a new outright PB today being chased by one of Rachel's clubmates, Ryan Laytham, who has a parkrun PB of 16:53.

James also set the highest Age Grade score.

Congratulations to Mary Casey who broke her own W75 Record.

Congratulations also to Killarney stalwart Vincent Hussey who ran his 150th parkrun today and truly deserves a loyalty award having done them all in Killarney!

Our thanks go to the 9 volunteers who made today's event possible:

Mary GRIFFIN • Philip GAMMELL • Eileen HAYES • Brid STACK • Jim HEALY • Jacek ZAKRZEWSKI • Ray SMITH • Mike O'DONOGHUE • Mick ANGLIM

Today's full results and a complete event history can be found on the Killarney parkrun Results Page.

The female record is held by Carol FINN who recorded a time of 18:09 on 5th November 2016 (event number 72).
The male record is held by Matthieu MARSHALL who recorded a time of 15:48 on 8th July 2017 (event number 107).
The Age Grade course record is held by Niamh O'SULLIVAN who recorded 93.46% (19:22) on 16th March 2019 (event number 193).

Killarney parkrun started on 6th June 2015. Since then 3,143 participants have completed 10,730 parkruns covering a total distance of 53,650 km, including 1,659 new Personal Bests. A total of 185 individuals have volunteered 1,487 times.

This week we welcomed 56 people who ran, jogged or walked the course, of whom 19 were first timers and representatives of 7 different clubs took part.

Congratulations to the 4 who recorded new Personal Bests and to Matt Cutler, a first time visitor from London, who led the field home and to young Ailbhe Gammell who led the ladies home for the 6th time.

Both First Finishers were beaten however on Age Grade scoring by super consistent Ray Smith who warmed up by setting out the course and then set the highest Age Grade score for the 40th time!

We were treated to a new Age Grade record today as Mary Casey celebrated her first run in Killarney for almost 2 years by smashing our W75 Record by over 4 minutes! Well done Mary.

Our thanks go to the 8 volunteers who made this morning’s event possible:

Mike RIORDAN • Eileen HAYES • Sinead FAGAN • Brid STACK • Caroline CLIFFORD • Ray SMITH • Dj O'SULLIVAN • Mick ANGLIM

Today's full results and a complete event history can be found on the Killarney parkrun Results Page.

The female record is held by Carol FINN who recorded a time of 18:09 on 5th November 2016 (event number 72).
The male record is held by Matthieu MARSHALL who recorded a time of 15:48 on 8th July 2017 (event number 107).
The Age Grade course record is held by Niamh O'SULLIVAN who recorded 93.46% (19:22) on 16th March 2019 (event number 193).

Killarney parkrun started on 6th June 2015. Since then 3,112 participants have completed 10,663 parkruns covering a total distance of 53,315 km, including 1,653 new Personal Bests. A total of 185 individuals have volunteered 1,478 times.