Posted by: Tony Mangan.
The Irish team for this weekends Celtic Plate 100km international race in
Edinburgh,Scotland is: Marty Rea, Thomas Maguire and Dara O’Kearney. The Irish team will
be handled by Richard Donovan and Tony Mangan. Check out the race site:
international
http://www.ukathletics.net/
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Door Sarah Holt
A week on from the London Marathon and the aches and pains of the 35,674 finishers may be fading fast, but are any of them ready to run, not 26.2 miles, but 62? For those who balk at taking on the marathon, running 62 miles - the distance between London and Cambridge - seems like something for masochists. Its not, its called ultra running. Read the rest of this entry »
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Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 19:10:33 +0200
From: Roadscholar
Subject: 101K Ronda Spain 12-13 May
I’ll be running the Ronda, Spain 101K race the weekend of 12-13 May. It’s an annual race sponsored by the Spanish Foreign Legion. It’s quite an adventure through the mountains around Ronda. A very scenic route (during the day).
It’s billed as a “marcha” and many people do hike/march the route. You have a 24-hour time limit to complete the course. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by: Tony Mangan. The Sun newspaper April 11th
Irish Tom wins Pole Marathon. By Sun reporter.
An Irishman has won the world’s coldest marathon staged at the North Pole in temperatures of MINUS 25 C. And despite running in SNOW SHOES Thomas Maguire finished in a race record time of three hours 36 minutes and ten seconds. Thomas of Belcoo, Co. Fermanagh wore three layers of special clothes, plus goggles and a balaclava, to protect him from frostbite, and beat 40 other Read the rest of this entry »
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