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| Fiona Roche, Lizzie Lee & Gladys Ganiel |
Gladys Ganiel of North Belfast Harriers finished second in a new personal best time of 1h 15m 09s.
In the mens race, Mark Christie of Mullingar Harriers was the winner in a time of 1:06.09, his first race over the half-marathon distance. Mark, who is coached by Jerry Kiernan said in a post race interview...."I missed out on an Olympic A qualifying standard for London by eight seconds and I felt a bit disillusioned after that. I only ran periodically for several months and it was only in recent months when I joined Jerry Kiernan’s training group that I got my enthusiasm back for training and racing. I know that I need to increase my training mileage if I am to continue to race at this distance and beyond. I became a full –time athlete when I was training for the London Olympics, but I am back now in full-time employment and happy with the way things are going for me. I was nice to win the Rock n Roll event and winning the Woodie’s DIY National Championship was an extra bonus for me.”
Top 10 men and women...
1 Mark Christie M 25 1:06:09
2 Sean Gearoid Hehir M 25 1:06:41
3 Gary O'Hanlon M 35 1:07:33
4 Eoin Flynn M 30 1:07:49
5 Robbie Matthews M 30 1:08:07
6 Michael McDiarmada M 25 1:08:22
7 Philip Harty M 30 1:08:24
8 Simon Ryan M 25 1:09:28
9 Brian Murphy M 30 1:10:35
10 Tudor Mircea M 18 1:10:43
Top 3 teams...Clonliffe Harriers AC, Rathfarmham AC, Raheny Shamrock AC
40 Lizzie Lee F 30 1:14:48
43 Gladys Ganiel F 35 1:15:09
59 Fiona Roche F 30 1:16:42
60 Claire McCarthy F 35 1:17:01
80 Kate Cronin F 25 1:18:43
100 Niamh Devlin F 25 1:20:01
110 Elish Kelly F 30 1:20:20
120 Fiona Stack F 25 1:21:19
129 Angela McCann F 40 1:21:49
142 Ann Lennon F 45 1:22:29
Top 3 teams...Leevale AC, Raheny Shamrock AC, Mayo AC
Individual results can be seen on the Irish Independent website. The full results of the Half-Marathon championships should be available from Athletics Ireland soon.
Photos...
1) JimmyMacsPics has a gallery HERE
Did you go to this event? Thoughts? Comments?
2 comments:
Hello John,
I took part, have to say a good experience and would go again, entered for 25€ a while back as an AAI club member, would not pay more for such a race and the lower AAI cost got me entered in effect for a nice price, after participating I would say i got v good value, as well organised as the Dublin full marathon throughout the day i.e. from expo to bag drop off to bag collection, a race with lower personnel nos and less congestion, 2 t shirts received, one good from RnR and one average from AAI , the best quality medal i ever got at a race,a nice souvenir in effect and my youngest daughter loves it, loads of food goodies at the finish line i.e. water, bananas, power bar gels ,energy bars , jellies etc. Quick results with good photos available (at a cost) if thats your preference. Music throughout was a good vibe, handy mile markers in effect and there was a live free concert at the end. A negative was water cups on route, should have had small bottles for such a race.
Its an overall postive response from me which counteracts most of the negative comments on the previous blog entry.
An added bonus was Lizzie Lee winning with a 3 min improvement pb, some going at this stage of her career. Great stuff and congrats to her on a fabulous win. She did Cork proud yesterday.
I went up initially especially for the race but added in a few other events. It was a great race, very fast easy circuit I thought and great atmosphere. The bands along the way broke the dull parts of the course. Already tempted to do another abroad if I can fit one in.
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