Maria McCambridge of DSD finished eighth overall in a time of 34 mins 38 secs at the North West 10km in Letterkenny yesterday. McCambridge, a previous overall winner of this race, was using the race as a final tune-up before the Riga Marathon in Latvia on Sunday May 15. Claire McCarthy of Leevale, who dropped […]
Annadale’s Paul Pollock ran a time of 28 mins 32.18 secs at the Payton Jordon Invitational Meeting in California today – comfortably inside the European Track and Field Championships qualifying time of 28 mins 35 secs and just outside Dermot Donnelly’s Northern Ireland record. Pollock also has a marathon qualifying time for the Europeans. Also […]
In the past week, runners of all standards faced a bewildering choice of close to 50 races from slick commercial operations to free Parkruns. On a holiday weekend, there were possible trips away to highly publicised races in Limerick, Glengarriff, Galway, as well as a women’s mini marathon in Mayo. Biggest of the lot was […]
Nataliya Lehonkova from the Ukraine lowered the women’s record to 2 hrs 36 mins 50 secs at today’s Deep River Rock Belfast Marathon. Overall winner of the race was Joel Kipsang from Kenya in 2:19.27. Tom Frazer was the best of the Northern Irish in 2:26.24, followed by the evergreen Tommy Hughes, now an M50, […]
Although Dublin and Belfast are only 100 miles apart, the two biggest cities on this island are different worlds when it comes to the road running scene. Next Monday’s 32nd RiverRun Belfast Marathon had the complete co-operation of Belfast City Council from its start in 1982 and these days, has a solid sponsor. Entry fees […]
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