BY PATSY McGONAGLE: Nothing better than coming home in front when the race is in your home town . Thats the neat story from club member local man student at Lyit Dean Toland as he raced to victory in St Johnston in the opening event in the Lifford 5k Series.
The local athlete who in fact had won the corrresponding event in 2012 came home in 16.23 with Foyle Valley’s Adrian Mc Gowan second in 16.51. Dean has to build on this victory.
There is another in the series in Raphoe this Sunday again the organisers welcome pre entry as we in Finn Valley do for our Series that kicks off Feb 17th.
It’s an education process getting the many thousands of people out there walking/running to pre enter when that opportunity is available. In this case please hit finnvalley1@gmail.com re Feb 17th where its an 11 am start
Oisin Gallen will have gained immensely from his exposure to international competition in Celtic x country u 17 ,Cardiff at the weekend finishing in the thirties.
Sarah Collins has returned to US this week and will run a few indoor races with her main emphasis Q for European juniors in the Summer.
This Saturday its War Memorial x country in Lurgan with Indoor AAI Games in new indoor facility Athlone I T Sunday.
A reminder that the floodlit meeting at Finn Valley kicks off Wed Jan 30th registration from 6pm an opportunity to engage in competition pre indoor champ season comes round . All North West clubs have beeen notified.
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