Category: Races

Iain Hunter travelled a long way to get unclean at the Muck It! 10k challenge near Clonmellon, Co. Westmeath. The race takes part in the beautiful grounds of Ballinlough Castle and has a mixture of ditches, ropes, slides, pits, canals, lakes, forests, and of course loads of MUCK! It describes itself as ‘serious fun for all’ ! Iain successfully navigated the mucky, obstacle filled course and was first home. 

The weekend weather continued fine to enable the Weatherhead family and the Rice family to take part in the Lurgan 10k and Fun Run. Brendan Rice was in good form obtaining a PB for his 10k in just over 42 mins with Clive close behind finishing in 43:07.

Trevor Lamb travelled to Berlin this weekend to take part in his 7th marathon. The trip was a huge success with Trevor achieving a PB of more than 11 mins coming home in a superb time of 4 hr 45 mins.

Saturday was a beautiful day for athletes to take on the various distances on offer at Extreme 26 Causeway Coast event. Runners were treated to perfect views of iconic sights including Giants Causeway, Dunseverick  and White Park Bay before finishing in the picturesque village of Portballintrae

Marathon Results:

Gillian Cordner – 4:21

Half Marathon Results:

Phil Magill – 3:05:55

Vivien Davidson – 3:05:55

10k Results:

Becki Tester – 1:07 

Nicola McKay – 1:15

Thomas Dunlop – 1:15

Karen Poag and Julie Ann Mitchell were amongst the hundreds of athletes taking part in the the annual Aurora Bangor 10k road race.

The perfect  sunny weather was ideal for the course which takes in the  atmospheric Town Centre and part of the picturesque North Down coastline.

Results:

Karen Poag – 51;43

Julie Ann Mitchell – 53:42

What a birthday treat for Gillian from Gary Connolly … Cumbria way ultra 73 miles, ullswater to Carlisle through the Lake District. 10,000 feet of ascent, 73 miles, self navigating. Gillian says that with the exception of MDS this was by far the hardest event she’s ever done….trudging through bogs, over mountains, rivers and fields in the dark….just fantastic!!!!

39 Athletes from Seapark took part in the 3rd Belfast Half Marathon which attracted a field of 3,500 runners. Many Seaparkers got PB’s on the new course. First lady home for Seapark was Elisoa Crawford in a time of 1:37:25 and Ian Cleland was first home for the men in a time of 1:25:04. One Seaparker Yumi Aoki travelled all the way from her home in Japan to take part along side her Seapark partner, Neill Harper.

Results:

Ian Cleland 1:25:04

Charlie McCormick 1:31:37

Brendan Rice 1:32:35

Bobbie Irvine 1:32:38

Jonathan Beattie 1:33:08

John Barron 1:37:04

Robert Murray 1:37:16

Richard Hetherington 1:39:53

Mark Welsh 1:40:05

Colin McCrum 1:40:58

Jonathan Bell 1:46:59

Robert Steele 1:47:50

Neill Harper 1:52:58

Phil Poag 1:53:41

Trevor Lamb 1:58:09

Andy Smyth 2:01:47

Colin Pearson 2:17:15

Michael Kane 2:26:38

Tony Barclay 2:43:53

Elisoa Crawford  1:37:25

Caroline Salters 1:41:26

Alanah McCombe 1:41:27

Karen Poag 1:51:03

Julie Clyde 1:58:17

Roisin McConnell 1:59:48

Lynette Magill 2:07:21

Ruth Hawkins 2:09:39

Alison Welsh 2:09:57

Jacqui Coghlan 2:10:46

Yumi Aoki 2:15:52

Marie Nicholson – 2:16:06

Glenda Murray 2:17:09

Becki Tester 2:22:40

Geraldine Kane 2:31:00

Suzanne McConkey 2:31:00

Megan Kane 2:33:41

Caroline Boyle 2:36:22

Carol Downey 2:39:00

Karen McMaster 2:39:45

Gavin Irvine completed his second Marathon at The Hull Marathon on Sunday in a time of 4:24. Runners were treated to a fly-over by the Red Arrows. As well as posting a PB Gavin also raised funds for Save The Children.

It’s the biggest half marathon in the world! Allan Grant from Seapark travelled to Newcastle upon Tyne to take part in Sunday’s Great North Run alongside Mo Farrah and 57,000 others. Karen Waring was on hand to share her videos of the event showing hundreds of people still making their way to their pen after the race had already started. In fact Mo Farrah had finished before some people got over the starting mat! Allan Grant had a fab time finishing in 2:02.