East Down runners have a quiet weekend – for a change
East Down runners took part in the Portadown Running Festival Half Marathon
Sunday morning saw athletes from across N Ireland heading to Portadown for the annual running festival, which involves a 10k and half marathon.
The Half Marathon starts and finishes at Portadown Rugby club with the fast flat route taking in one large loop of the People’s Park.
A number of runners would have been using this race as final preparation for the London and Belfast Marathons.
EDAC had two runners taking on the Half Marathon, Gordy Graham has had not had a competitive race in over seven months and was not sure what form he was in. With a top quality field Gordy will be very happy with his fourth position and a time of 1 hr 13 min 33 sec. This was great running which works out at 3 min 31 sec per Kilometer !
And Dee Murray also toed the line for the Half Marathon, an old hand at this distance.
Dee ran a steady 1 hr 28 min 39 sec in 101st position out of 684 runners. This was a great preparation for the Manchester Marathon in April.
A great effort from both of the guys. Well done!
