Cork runner Una Plant from Kinsale goes sub 3 in the Boston Marathon

Una Plant from Kinsale is a regular on the local race circuit in Cork and ran a 2:56 in the New York Marathon last November. She was in action again at the Boston Marathon on Monday and secured another sub 3 hour finish!

Una's time was 2h 59m 05s and finished 5th F45 out of what is a huge field of 30,741 runners. She was also the second Irish woman home, second only to 28 year old Joyce Miller who lives in the US.

Orla Crosbie of St.Finbarr's AC in Cork also posted a fine time of 3h 18m and was 20th F45.

1496 Miller, Joyce R 28    F Beaufort SC USA IRL... 2:58:11
2948 Plant, Una    45    F Kinsale      IRL... 2:59:05 ...5th F45
7245 Crosbie, Orla M     F Cork      IRL...3:18:25 ...20th F45

Una Plant Murphy with the winner of the women's race Atsede Baysa of Ethiopia (2:29:18)

Addendum : Joyce Miller (Joyce Curtin) has also been in touch. Joyce is from Killeagh in East Cork and used to run with Glenbower AC. She moved to the States on a scholarship and got married there. .

Una Plant from Cork finishes 2nd F45 at New York Marathon with 2:56 time

The big international race over the weekend was of course the New York City Marathon. With some 50,000 people taking part, it is one of the biggest marathons in the world. As per usual, there was a big contingent of Irish runners present with 452 making the journey.

One exceptional result was that of Una Plant from Kinsale in Cork. Una posted a finishing time of 2h 56m 54s which earned her the 2nd F45 spot in one of the world's major marathons.

Una who is a member of Kinsale Tri Club has been running a good few years but only started training seriously for the marathon more recently. In Dublin in 2013, she ran 3h 25m and posted 3h 04m in New York last year.

Just to put Una's new time in perspective in terms of the recent Dublin Marathon, it would have been just outside 3rd place in the national championships and faster than Sonia O'Sullivan's time to take the F45 Gold.

Una is now targeting the Boston Marathon in April 2016.