There has been lots of wins and podium finishes for Donore runners in the last few weeks.

The long-running Clonliffe 2 mile race had its 127th outing in Santry on April 28th. There was a Donore ladies 2nd and 3rd placing for Ide and Sorcha Nic Dhomhnaill in 10.52 and 11.05 respectively, not far off each other. Well done ladies!

Guillaume Nolain was 34th out of 1200 finishers in the very tough Connemara half marathon in 93.23, while Niall Lynch ran an excellent 34.27 and 1st M45 in his native Cavan at the Run With Catherina 10k.

Sean Fox was a clear winner of the St Andrews AC Ashbourne 10k in 34.27 and Kevin Nolan was 3rd in the 5k race in 17.03. Gavin Keogh won the Colaiste Cois Life 5k in 17.28.

On the mountains at Glen of the Downs in Wicklow, Niall Lynch was in action again at the IMRA Leinster League and came 2nd in that race 30.46 with Alasdair Brown running 33.03.

Running for their workplaces, many of our runners were out in force at the BHAA Bristol Myers Squibb 5k in Mulhuddart, a new race on the BHAA calendar run around the internal roads of the BMS business campus. The trio of Fergal Whitty 16.18, Chris Muldoon 16.23 and Philip Hennessy 16.45 were 3rd, 4th and 5th overall in the race.

First woman was Sinead Lambe in a super 17.54 – great win! Tom Fagan ran 20.10. And it was great to see Ann Woodlock back in BhAA action and in the year that will see her turn 80, she finished in 29.39

London Marathon

Flashback to the London marathon which took place on April 23 in freakishly hot conditions. A good number of Donore runners took part this year but the testing conditions took their toll. First home was Shane McAuley in 2.59.10 and Shane Russell ran 3.17.05. Ken Cronin toughed it out in 3.34.38. Marianne Dunlevy ran very well in the conditions in 3.41.56. Hats off to Elaine Verdon who still achieved a PB of 3.48. Tony Griffin had a tough day finishing in 3.54.46, Grainne Nolan ran 4.14.16 and Pam White 4.19.05. Unfortunately Anne Curley was forced to retire at 11 miles with a virus she was suffering from.

Well done to all our runners on a day which was tough even for the elite runners!