Hi and welcome to the weekly roundup of club results. Its been a while and with Parkruns starting up again at the weekend no better time to restart

Im going to start with Saturday 19^th June and Loop the Lough ultra from Strangford to Portaferry. One hardy Dub, Katherine Harkness bravely took on the challenge of “only” 54 miles/86k. Not only was she first lady to finish in just over 8.5 hours she also placed 8^th overall. A fantastic  achievement and definitely sore legs on Sunday.

On Sunday 20^th saw Jimmys 10k at Bishopscourt. A few Dubs turned out for the race which on a very fast course.

Alastair Rodger finished 39^th in a PB of 37.08 mins

Ciaran Harris finished 108^th in a PB of 43.12 mins

Fra McKenna finished 215^th in a PB of 49.34 mins

Well done lads on your efforts on a hot morning

Friday 25^th saw Les Jones 5k at MPT and again a few Dubs took on the race

Stevie McCamley finished 45^th in a PB of 21.41 mins

Joseph Herbert finished 50^th in 22.04 mins

Emma Beglin finished 58^th in 22.21 mins 

Alex Blackstock finished 169^th in 44.27 mins

Well down everyone.

Parkruns

Queens

Alan Laverty 17^th in 20.53 mins

Liam Lavery 43^rd in 23.36 mins

Maire McCaughey 51^st in 24.05 mins

Ronan McCaughey 84^th in 26.36 mins

Alison Crawford 113rd in 29.28 mins

Lynn Donnelly 128^th in 31.27 mins

Laura King 129^th in 31.27 mins and a course PB

Colin Glen

Frances McCambridge 26^th in 28.32 mins

Falls

Niall McCrory 1^st place in a course PB of 18.30 mins

Waterworks

Stephen Irvine 28^th in 22.34 mins

Nessa Agnew 53^rd in 24 mins

Roisin Byrne 56^th in 24.23

Orangefield

Danielle McCluskey 51^st in a course PB of 27.15 mins

Victoria

Michael Kirk-Smith 95^th in 26.32 mins

Martin Teggart 128^th in 28.33 mins

Knockbracken

John Close 3^rd in a course PB of 18.49 mins

Stevie McCamley 7^th in a new 5k PB of 21 mins (2^nd PB in less than 24 hours)

Fra Mckenna 19^th in a new 5k PB of 23.11 mins

Hillsborough Forest

Richard Conn 3^rd in 19.23 mins

Portrush

Ciaran Harris 17^th in 21.56 mins 

Well done to everyone on their runs. Also the club volunteers who never get a mention, Ted and Dermot at Queens and Julia at Knockbracken. Apologies if I have missed anyone out and can everyone I have missed check you have the club attached to their Parkrun profile.

Sunday then saw Championchip Ireland Festival of running at MLK site on a very hot morning

The 5k had 2 Dubs entered

Alastair Rodger finished 13^th in a new PB of 17.35 mins. All those Lough Moss laps over winter definitely paying off with his 2^nd PB in a week

Naula O`Connor finished 59^th in 27.52 mins

In the Duathlon (run-bike-run) Anna McArdle finished 29^th in 1 hour 27:14 mins (23:07-39:24-22:38 plus 2 minutes for the transitions)  

Great effort by all

Thanks Fra