Leinster Novice & Master Road Championships 2019 (6th May)

Gowran AC has hosted and expertly organised the Leinster Novice & Master Road Championships for many years on the May Bank Holiday Monday and this year the event on Monday 6th May brought athletes from all over Leinster in search of individual, Club and County medals. Among them was our own Eddie Newman who was running the Master Men 6,000m only a week after running a terrific 2 hours 49 minutes at the London Marathon, so he wasn’t entirely sure how his weary limbs would hold up. The 6,000m race was four laps of the 1,500m course, providing spectators with plenty of action to enjoy in the pleasant cool overcast conditions. As it turned out, Eddie needn’t have worried, settling quickly into his running and covering the distance without any problem to finish well up overall in 21 minutes 24 seconds and comfortably winning his master category by nearly a minute.