Irish Three Quarter Marathon 2019 (6th Oct)

The Dublin City Marathon is looming fast on the horizon and those training for it are putting the final touches to their preparations and getting in their final test runs before they start to taper down. The course for the Irish Three Quarter Marathon in Longwood, Co. Meath on Sunday morning 6th October was nice and flat, and combined with the very pleasant cool dry conditions, provided an excellent opportunity for our marathon athletes to test themselves and their race strategies and monitor their training. Among the over 1,400 finishers were six from Mullingar Harriers led home by Joan Flynn in 2:20:14, fifth woman and 2nd in her master category, followed by Breda Daly (2:37:28), Criona Reid (2:57:44), Stephen Bell (3:00:55), Declan Costello (3:05:47) and Siobhan Farry (3:13:01). Of note is that most of them ran progressively quicker splits as the race unfolded, which is sure to give them huge confidence ahead of the Dublin City Marathon at the end of the month. Congratulations to them all.