Royal Canal Marathon & Half Marathon 2017 (22nd Apr)

Run as a number of 5.2k loops of the Royal Canal in Longford, making it a fast flat course, the Royal Canal Marathon and Half Marathon on Saturday 22nd April attracted a reasonable entry across the race distances on offer. Among the 37 finishers of the marathon was Gerard Flynn dipping under four hours with 3:58:30, followed not far behind by Criona Reid who was very pleased with her time of 4:02:26. There was a bigger entry of nearly 200 in the half marathon where Sean Liston (1:39:06), John Bannon (1:44:27) and Declan Costello (1:48:41) were happy with their performances.