Fit4Life May-August Update

What a fantastic way to start of the summer season, weather we could only have dreamed off, I’m now calling it warm weather training without the cost!! Once again the Fit4Life gang are doing fantastic since April, more races, more challenges and lots of new PB’s.

There were a number of races in May and a few stood out for some of the gang. The women’s Meet & Train set the pace for 3 girls, Janette & Kim Strickland and Lavinia Kirwin where all 3 set PB’s for the 5k race in Irishtown. David Wogan added a new PB of 18:45 to his record for the Lucan 5k (which is not surprising) James McCabe got himself a PB of 1:01:02 in the Maynooth.

June brought its own little surprises too with Robert Coogan doing a fantastic race in the Docklands 10k and bagging himself a PB of 38 mins!! Nice one Robert! Lavinia Kirwin setting the standard for herself once again with another 10k PB of 58:00 mins in the women’s mini marathon and Janette Strickland‘s PB of 45:00 mins for the Dunshaughlin 10k.

July saw some great running from Ann Rush who took a chunk of 6 mins of her half marathon time in Achille. Well done Ann.

August brings us to date and the first race of the month kicked off with the Rock-n-Roll half marathon. Elaine Verdon who is in training for the Dublin City Marathon is in flying form and done a fantastic time for her half marathon in 1:44:06 (I should mention Elaine is doing super this year and has done PB’s in every race so far) keep it up. Laura Murray did a great job also and came in at 2:07:10 great job Laura.

Well done to you all and keep up the training and great running. As always a big thanks to coach Barry Potts who is always there to put us through our paces.

Inspirational Running quote for the month…

“In running, it doesn’t matter whether you come in first, in the middle of the pack, or last. You can say, ‘I have finished.’ There is a lot of satisfaction in that.” -Fred Lebow

Results:

May

Tallaght 5k
Nicola Dowdall: 22:00

Dublin Bay 10k
Eva Campion: 47:38 (PB)

Women’s Meet & Train 5k (2^nd race summer league)
Janette Strickland: 20:54 (PB)
Kim Strickland: 23:21,
Lavinia Kirwin: 27:56

Lucan 5k
Dave Wogan: 18:45 (PB)

Mayo 10K
Deirdre Healy: 53:34

Maynooth 10K
James McCabe: 1:01:02 (PB)
Lavinia Kirwin 59:44 (PB)

Women’s Meet & Train 4m (3rd race summer league)
Janette Strickland: 28:09
Kim Strickland: 30:22
Lavinia Kirwin: 33:45

June

Flora Women’s Mini Marathon
Lavinia Kirwin: 58:51 (PB)

Bohermeen 5k
David Wogan: 20:20