Trim AC “Braveheart 5k” 2022 (10th June)

Taking place on Friday evening 10th June, the Trim AC “Braveheart 5k” at the Porchfields in Trim attracted an excellent 400 runners to the start line of a race along the banks of the historic River Boyne, taking the runners among one of the finest collections of medieval monuments in Ireland. This is not an easy course, and the blustery conditions didn’t help, but displaying no difficulty with it and finishing well up in fifth place was Gerard Gavin in 17:35 to win his master age category, followed by Susan Glennon in 19:41, fourth woman finisher, then Callum Costello in 20:38, third junior man, easing back to racing after a long layoff due to injury and happy with his race, then Linda Cunningham in 23:02, with Declan Costello in 26:28 completing the Mullingar group.