Storm Dessie failed to stop our hardened bunch of Senior athletes from making their way to the Park today for what’s normally quite a fast race. Conditions were anything but friendly to PB chasers for the 2016 running of Donore Harriers Jingle Bells 5k. Nevertheless we’d some fine performances from our Senior runners in a race where many were finding their post marathon legs.

When participants finally got away (after the second time of asking) athletes faced a km with a tailwind turning left onto Chesterfield Ave. from Acres Rd. where they faced the brunt of the wind from the left, before taking it head on down Ordnance Rd. There was some relief when the field  hit the top of the Furry Glen where it was all downhill with the breeze to the finish.

Well done to the guys for posting the following impressive times. Just gun times today as it was too windy to put down start mats, so many actually posted slightly faster times than the ones below.

Niall Cornyn 16:28

Alan Kenny 17:20

Sean Kinnane 18:44

Owen Fletcher 19:06

Kevin Deery 19:44

Eimear English 19:59

Kevin Clancy 20:01

Paul Lord 21:38

Ciara Devitt 21:47

Michael Cornyn 22:30

Noel Duffy 24:49

Anne Marie Sheehan 25:00

Ray Duggan 27:36