Letterkenny Athletic Club Notes
The Glenswilly GAA 5K has been one of the most popular of the Donegal Grand Prix races in recent years and this was shown again in Tuesday evening’s event. There were 349 finishers. Karol Duggan turned in another top notch performance and won the race in a superb time of 15.27. Ivan…
Letterkenny Athletic Club Notes
When all the figures had been collated following last Sunday’s VHI women’s Mini Marathon in Dublin, there was further good news for LAC’s 3 competitors. It was already known that Nakita Burke and Catriona Jennings had scooped finishing places in the top 10 in a very competitive race, with Nakita…
Letterkenny Athletic Club Notes
Nakita Burke turned in another phenomenal performance in Sunday afternoon’s VHI Women’s Mini Marathon in Dublin. She earned herself yet another 10K PB, when she finished 8th in a high quality field in a time of 36.40. Catriona Jennings had a superb run to finish 10th in 36.50. The third LAC runner,…
Letterkenny Athletic Club Notes
The Buncrana 5K has the reputation of being one of the highest quality summer 5Ks and last Wednesday’s event once again re-inforced that reputation. The first 11 runners all recorded sub 16 minute times. The first LAC runner across the line was Ciaran Doherty, whose time of 15.27 gave him…
Letterkenny Athletic Club Notes
Tuesday night saw the 41st consecutive running of Letterkenny AC’s very popular Inter Firms 5K race. Like most years, fast times were the order of the day, with 9 runners coming home in sub 16 minutes. City of Derry Spartans’ Conor Bradley was first across the line in 15.08, followed…
Letterkenny Athletic Club Notes
Danny Mooney was a convincing winner of the 800m race in the Donegal Senior Track and Field Championship at the Finn Valley Centre on Sunday. He finished 5 seconds ahead of his closest challenger, Aidan Connolly, in a time of 1.53.07. Danny made it a ‘double’ later in the day when…
Letterkenny Athletic Club Notes
The Donegal road racing season moved into top gear on Sunday afternoon in searing heat in Letterkenny. The annual North West 10K attracted a huge number of runners and walkers. Eoghan McGinley had a tremendous run and his time of 32.39 was good enough for 2nd place. Eoghan was just…