This race reporter focused on the numbers behind the winners!
9 – Pm start time
22 – Date in April, a dry though cold Sunday evening
10 – Kilometer distance
41 – Metre elevation gain
20 – Mph wind, or at least that’s what the wall of wind felt like in parts
15 – Number of Sportsworld stewards, a brilliant turn out. Thanks to everyone!
€225 – The amount the club received from their stewarding efforts.
1 – Number of participants from my company, including myself, to run. It was a hopeless attempt to get a few of them signed up.
50 – Number of participants from Sinead’s company ARUP who ran – wow!
5,500 – Number of runners in total; A big event on the dark but lovely streets of Dublin City Centre. Lots of music and jazz and lights and photography and cool drone footage.
10 – Number of Sportsworlder participants
3 – Number of different colour shirts I have from over the years. It used to be the Samsung Night Run with yellow high vis tops, then it became the Virgin Night Run with red high vis tops. Now it is the KBC Night Run with blue high vis tops! Bets on next year??
700 – Workers in total who helped make the race happen
40 – Number of “po”lice
100 – Number of portaloos!
1st – Sinead Tangney as first lady home. Unreal!
2nd – Years in a row Sinead has won this title
2nd – Event of the day which Sinead competed in; having ran the National Relays earlier!
3 – No. of PBs achieved by the Sportsworlders that I know of; Grainne, Martina and myself, Deirdre
50 – Seconds difference between my fastest and slowest K, stooopid
3 – Bottles of water drank immediately at the end
2 – Am. The time you feel calmed down enough to go to sleep
RESULTS
12 Stephen ODONNELL (#91) 00:35:31
26 Sinead TANGNEY (#1421) 00:37:36 – FIRST LADY, AGAIN!
196 Deirdre O’CONNELL (#569) 00:43:09
254 Stephanie BERGIN (#301) 00:44:03
495 Padraic MORAN (#468) 00:46:31
547 Anne DALTON (#1911) 00:46:55
647 Martina NOLAN-JONES (#1621) 00:47:39
767 Grainne LYNCH (#1877) 00:48:36
1157 Siobhan CLARKE (#2720) 00:51:27
1715 Grainne WALL (#2771) 00:54:40
By Deirdre O’Connell
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