London Marathon 2018
Race Reports by Thomas Kinsella, Justin McKeever and Damien Geraghty
Thomas Kinsella
We arrived over early Saturday morning to London City Airport and headed straight to the massive ExCel convention centre for the race expo which was 20 minutes from...
IMRA Glen of the Downs Trail Race
Report by Liam Lenehan
Photos from www.imra.ie
Gang of 6 Sportsworlders turned up on Wednesday for the Glen of The Downs Trail Race. Stephanie and Tricia have caught the mountain running bug this season (their 3rd race in 3 weeks)...
2018 Madrid Marathon
Madrid Marathon Race Report, 22 April 2018 by Enda Kerin
“Planning to run a marathon is like life, anything can happen.” - Eliud Kipchoge
Journey to Madrid
My preparations for the Madrid marathon were far from ideal....
2018 Wexford Half Marathon
Report by Mark Hogan (above left with no flake in his ice cream)
“Ireland’s recording breaking course”: 68% of Half Marathon participants achieved a P.B. in 2017.
In January I was mapping out a few races...
Leinster 6k Road Race Championships Novice and Masters, Gowran Co. Kilkenny
My last race report, a mere 4 weeks ago on Easter Monday at Raheny described excessively cold, wet and windy conditions for the race. Fast forward to May Bank Holiday and conditions were positively...
Tallaght 5km
Grainne Lynch
When I woke up on Sunday I immediately regretted not running away from Emily when she cornered me on the Tuesday after training asking where I was racing over the weekend. It seems...
Great Limerick Run 2018
Only one word can adequately describe the Great Limerick Run of 2018. Hot. Maybe two words... very hot! Temperatures hit 20 degrees on the streets of Limerick on Sunday 6th May 2018. Granted not...
2018 Dublin Graded Meet 2 Tallaght
11 VALERIE Power Sportsworld 6:30.55
12 IRENE O'Connor Sportsworld 6:39.07
13 CARMEL Dolan Sportsworld 6:51.59
14 BRONWYN Murphy White Sportsworld 6:53.64
15 OLIVE Fogarty Sportsworld 6:55.10
I was ranked 14, which was the average age of everyone bar the five...
Terenure 5 mile 2018 Roundup
According to Eoin O Brien the worlds greatest 5 mile road race took place last Sunday in Terenure so how exactly did that happen.
34 years ago Emily and Mick Dowling started the Sportsworld 5...
2018 Street of Dublin 5k
Report by Karl Shevlin
A cool and grey morning had emerged as I left on foot for the CHQ building race starting point on Sunday. I felt quite relieved, with a slight cooling breeze and no...
