Weather to run or not?

greg.jpgIt was an unusually quiet on the running front this week with the weather affecting some of the few races that were scheduled to take place including the Sperrin Harriers Winter league race on Saturday. One race did take place however despite the windy conditions and that was the aptly named Roller Coaster 5k which took place in Downpatrick. Greg McClure was not put of by the tough course or tough weather conditions and performed well to finish 2nd in the M55 category, 27th overall in a time of 21:36 which was his second 5k of the day after competing in parkun that morning.

Parkrun

The weekly timed events that take place all over the country also didn’t fair well, with weather conditions forcing some events to be called over or have course alterations. Notable performance this week include Paul Horans 1st place finish at the new Carrickfergus event as well as a 1st place finish for Galdys Ganiel-O’Neil at Derry and a 1st place finish for Alan Ritchie at Citypark. PBs were also picked up by Paul Gruhn, Eamon Sheridan and Sharron Sykes. 

Belfast Victoria

3 Edward COOKE 00:19:32

6 Paul GRUHN 00:21:28

Bexley Park

4 Matt SHIELDS 00:19:52

Carrickfergus

1 Paul HORAN 00:18:29

54 Jennifer BILL 00:28:16

55 Sandy CARR 00:28:26

 City Park

1 Alan RITCHIE 00:18:32

 Derry

1 Gladys GANIEL-O’NEILL 00:18:42

 Malahide

21 Joe DRAIN 00:20:50

43 Siobhan DRAIN 00:21:50

 Ormeau

3 Simon REEVE 00:19:08

32 Athanasia SEVASTAKI 00:22:54

111 Drew CRAWFORD 00:28:45

 Queens

2 Martin REA 00:18:43

14 Philip Patrick DONNELLY 00:20:34

16 Claire PRENTER 00:20:52

22 Ciaran HUNTER 00:22:10

55 John LAVERY 00:28:53

56 Kevin LAVERY 00:28:54

 Wallace

2 John MCCONNELL 00:19:24

13 Greg MCCLURE 00:22:43

 Waterworks

3 Paul MCALLISTER 00:18:37

4 Laurence JOHNSTON 00:18:46

5 Tony MC CAMBRIDGE 00:19:01

8 Drew KNOX 00:19:38

12 John Gerard MURPHY 00:20:20

14 Gerry GRIBBON 00:20:27

15 Andrew MILLIGAN 00:20:35

16 Eamon SHERIDAN 00:20:42

19 Harry BREWSTER 00:21:24

38 John Robert JOHNSTON 00:23:19

41 Nuala MULDOON 00:23:48

52 John GRIBBIN 00:24:44

70 Steven THOMPSON 00:26:57

81 Mary RINGLAND 00:27:47

95 Tina HAGGAN 00:30:02

98 Martin Joseph COX 00:31:04

112 Sharron SYKES 00:33:45

113 John Michael MARQUESS 00:33:49

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