It was a busy weekend of races ranging from 5k to the marathon.  Anne and Florence Curley made the trip to Moone Kildare for the Jim Roche race festival 26.2k Kilomarathon event.  On a warm day and an undulating course with an uphill finish Anne showed her customary flair over the distance to finish 1st woman and 11th overall in 1.47.48 , sister Florrie finished 3rd woman in 1.54.47.

Another runner preparing for the marathon is Nicola Dowdall and she ran a very good 2.47.40 at the Eco 2 run 20 mile at Eastpoint.  Amandine Devine ran 1.48.46 in the 10 mile run simultaneously.

The big race of the weekend in Dublin was the Rathfarnham 5k with 1300 participants.  Donore had some great performances, PBs and 2nd team placing for the ladies and 3rd for the men.  Dave Heffernan was 1st home in a super 15.33, Feargal Swaine was 2nd M40 in 16.23 and Fred Kiernan next in 16.44.  Sinead Lambe probably suffered a little from an early fast pace but still ran 18.30 and finished 7th woman.  Barbara Murray is making a great comeback and will be well pleased with 19.11 and 1st W40 place.  Sinead Graham was delighted with her 20.17 PB and Karen Behan and Rhona Duane finished practically together not long after- results in full are listed below.

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Over in Berlin, 5 of our runners did us proud in one of the world’s biggest and fastest marathons with Ken Norgrove leading the way with an excellent 2:37:05, all results below.

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