Ongoing Christmas racing roundup: Sunday, December 22, Drogheda 5 K Road race Eoin Maguire clocked a new PB of 16.08 in finishing 12th with Sean Doran 3 places further back, 15th, in 16.33.
St Stephen’s Day: Cavan 5 K Cathal McHale had a fine run to take 3rd position in a time of 16.00. Gareth Enright was 60th (20.51). Also at the Kilbeggan 6K Dave Reilly 27.51, Nicole Burke 31.50. In Co Galway at the Fields of Athenry 8k Garrett Loy ran 39.13 and Aisling Killelea 42.12. Ben Coughlan took 2nd place in the MSD 4 mile in Clonmel in 20.06.
December 27th : showing a welcome return to form today was Sean Doran finished in 6th position in the Rita and Robbie 5K in Navan in a time of 15.33. Performance of the holiday period to date however goes to Ben Power in the Holly Berry 10k in Lusk who finished 4th overall in a time of 43.11. The significance of this performance is that it was a massive PB of 8 minutes 56 seconds!
December 28th: Lee Duddy was first past the post in the D15 Suicide Awareness 5k road race at the Sports Ireland Campus in Abbottstown in 16.29.
December 31st: Sergiu Ciobanu was 2nd in the Grange Fermoy 10k in 32.36.