With Storm Ciara passing over the country and an Orange weather warning from Met Eireann in force, the numbers were well down for this years Cork BHAA Janssen 6k in Little Island.
A total of 175 runners took part this year compared to 352 in 2019, a drop of 50%.
The race was fortunate to miss the vicious squall which passed through just two hours earlier with gusts of 95kph being recorded at Cork airport and knocking out the electricity in Cobh as well as causing extensive damage to the football grounds there.
1 Alan O'Shea M1 00:19:08 Mercy Hospital
2 Michael Bruton M2 00:19:53 Pfizer
3 Kristaps Liepins M3 00:20:07 Stryker
10 Grainne O'Donnell 0/35H F1 00:22:41 Kumon Douglas
14 Carol Finn F2 00:22:54 Carol Finn Physical Therapy
31 Laura Rooney 0/40I F3 00:24:52 Merck
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1 comment:
Crazy it went ahead. Of course everything did go ok in the end but it could have taken one piece of debris to go flying to cause problems. They got lucky.
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