AAI National Race Walk Championships 2019 (7th Dec)

All-Ireland race walk bronze for Rachel Glennon

The AAI National Race Walk Championships took place in a very cold St. Anne’s Park, Raheny on Saturday morning 7th December. As always, the event was very well organised by Raheny Shamrocks AC who laid out an excellent course along the beautiful tree-lined main avenue. In a repeat performance of last year, Rachel Glennon battled her way to 3rd place and the bronze medal in the Senior Women 20k walk, outside her personal best time for the distance but that’s understandable, given the less than ideal weather conditions. Rather than run in the master category, Sean McMullin opted to run in the non-Championship Senior Men 20k walk and was delighted to finish first.

Apart from the senior Championships, there were support races for juveniles over some non-standard distances where Jennifer Fidgeon (8k), Andrew Glennon (4k), Matthew Glennon (7k) and Oisin Lane (16k) delivered excellent performances, which are testament to the great work put in by coach Michael Lane, and these performances will stand all our underage race walkers in good stead for the year ahead.