British Milers Meeting Belfast 2026 (23rd May)

The British Milers came to Belfast on a lovely dry Saturday 23rd May and Mullingar Harriers had three athletes competing in the mile races. First up was Conor Sherwin but his race didn’t pan out the way everyone expected, as only one runner decided he would go with the pacemaker over the first lap, leaving the remaining group of runners well off the pace for three laps and the race only really started with one lap to go and turned into a 400m sprint, which didn’t suit Conor on the day coming home in 7th place.

The next race had two Mullingar men in action, Colin P Smith and Jamie Wallace. This was the last race of the day and the feature race with four of the field being sub-4 minute mile men, so it was expected to be fast from the gun and it didn’t disappoint. Colin went through the first lap in 57 seconds and Jamie further back in 59 seconds. Colin got himself into a lovely position during the race in the middle of the pack and Jamie sat out the back knowing this was a fast race. With one lap to go, Colin unleashed a serious turn of pace and flew home to finish 3rd in 4:01.03 just outside a sub-4 minute but a big personal best by over 2 seconds. Jamie took a more conservative approach to his race as he was running against the best milers in Ireland and with 300m to go started moving from the back of the field closing all the way to the finish and ran a massive personal best of 4:08.39, which was over 5 seconds better than his previous best [TW].