Sometimes after a crash it's good to get back on the bike! Our chance to "get back into it" is this weekend – the Hollymount international road race is a very popular race and one of the organisers is our own coach Jo Gardiner. The details are: Where: HollymountWhen: 01:00, Sunday 9th NovemberDistance: 10K Contact: 094-9540110
Most races are pretty logically named after their distance. For example, a race over 10 Kilometers is called a 10k. The marathon is unusual in that it gets its name from a Greek epic. It couldn’t be better named as it really is an odyssey of epic proportions that starts months or years before the day itself. I think that for most participants there is also a deeper almost spiritual side to the thing. You may want to prove something…
When the dust had settled on last week's Dublin marathon and the AAI scrutineers had time to analyse the results and decide the individual category placings and team results, they confirmed what we hoped – that Mark was an individual medallist in the M35 category in the Irish Marathon Championships. His time of 2.37.37 places Mark second in the M35 category and his resulting silver medal is one the most significant won by a senior runner from the club. Check it out…
