Success for Dunboyne Seniors and Fit4Life at Patrick Bell & Nicky Philips 5k Bohermeen
Saturday 10 June 2017 – Report by Jim Lineen
Seeing as my two girls were in charge of photography on the night, I might as well log this report and the few pics that they took for proof.
Saturday morning I told herself there was a 5k on in Navan that evening and that even though I’d no real plan to do it, I was fairly sure I’d end up there, and so it was.
Jim thought he was the sole Dunboyner there until he spotted Rory so he knew then he wouldn’t be coming 1st anyway 😀 . But hold fire, theres Peter Somba and theres Emilia chatting to her various nemeses and theres Lyndon coming back behind the starter and just before the off Heather is spotted too lookin as chilled as you like and sure now its like a regular crew of Dunboyne AC’ers out to ace another race here in the Royal Countryside.
I didn’t see Angela beforehand but having seen Lyndon, I knew she was sure to be lurking waiting to pounce on another medal in her category.
The race starts downhill nice and gradual and kicks off your 1st mile in fast fashion and with the wind in your sail the pace is close to a session at the track any Tuesday or Thursday. Its a right turning 3.1 miler and theres a few hills but its not the Phoenix Park or anything close. It also threatened to be like the bypass on the back-section blustery as it was, yet the route didn’t seem to have a tough section where the wind hampered you, and had plenty of hedges to shelter you, not unsimilar to the Moor of Meath route.
The payback for that lovely downhill start and the bit of wind both go unnoticed come the end where you arrive back to finish on the track at Bohermeen AC HQ, no torturous lap to do as Commander Gorey would have us do in the 5 miler, just the homestraight to the line and over it to get.
So that’s what I can remember of the route. My own race went great, I saw Emilia was about 6 or 7 seconds ahead of me come the 1st turn. I didn’t try to close the gap as there was no need, well really it was more like there’d be no actual physically possible way to achieve it either. But we more or less ran the same pace throughout and I was only able to put my hand on her shoulder after the finish to say well done, there wasn’t any other communication option open at that stage of oxygen starvation. Twas another starvation though she had in mind as within minutes I spot Emilia out running laps of the track with a quarter pounder in one hand !! I’ve read what I thought were just jokes about senior athletes finding it hard to run past bakeries and bars in a race and now I’m starting to believe…
With plenty of food options available after the race and even the aforementioned burger barbecue option, Bohermeen AC had us well looked after as we all gathered and had a yap.
Everyone did really well and were happy with how it went. Congrats to Emilia who was 2nd lady home and 1st in her category, to Peter who came 1st place doing ‘just enough’, and to Rory who came 6th. Congrats to Angela for coming 2nd in her category. For Heather, Lyndon and myself, we got bloody nowhere in any category which didn’t matter a damn because we all had something to be happy about having raced a 5k of a regular Saturday night in the middle of June.
Great running by all !
Peter Somba 15.10
Rory Kavanagh 16.34
Emilia Dan 18.41
Jim Lineen 18.42
Heather Harold 23.25
Lyndon Thomas 25.18
Angela Egan 26.48
