AAI National 10 Mile Championship 2019 (13th July)

The second edition of the Irish Runner 10 Mile, which incorporated the AAI National 10 Mile Championships, took place on Saturday morning 13th July in the Phoenix Park. Over 1,200 finished the race, among them 128 women and 166 men in the AAI race. The course was far from easy and included some very challenging hills and it was cloudy for most of the race but extremely warm and humid, making for testing conditions for the athletes, but that didn’t prevent fine performances from the dedicated group of master athletes from Mullingar.

Leading them home was Eddie Newman (58:52) placing 3rd in his master category, followed by Gerard Brady (65:44), Joan Flynn (68:02) 3rd in her master category, Stephen Naughton (69:33), Eileen Kenny (76:25) 1st in her master category, Michael O’Sullivan (77:17), Geraldine Walsh, 1st in her master category, her 10th All-Ireland title and Des Walsh, 3rd in his master category, only a few seconds away from the silver medal. There was team success too as Eddie, Stephen and Michael combined to finish 3rd Club in their master category. These are great performances from our master athletes when it counts, in a National Championship.