Dublin Half reports by Don and Heather.

Trim AC whad a good turnout at the who ran in the Dublin half marathon in the Phoenix Park.  Sean Murphy 78m 38s coming home in 38th place overall. Two weeks ago Sean won the M40 in the Dingle Marathon and was 4th overall in a time of 2h 54mins. In the fourth race of the Dublin 2012 series Don Mahon ran 86m 2sec Quinton Bourke 86m 2s a PB for him knocking off over 3mins only two weeks after doing a half Iron Man Mark Melia 87m 19sec another PB knocking off over 2mins Robert Farrell 85m 38sec another PB knocking off over 16mins Aidan Flynn 96m 7sec another PB knocking off over 3mins Brian Grant 96m 4sec & Enda Gallagher 99m 50sec everyone was very happy with there times after all the training they have being putting & some looking forward to the Dublin Marathon in six weeks time.
The womens team performed very well at the Dublin Half also. First home was
Laura Cotter - 1 hour 47(her first ever half marathon what a result), Majella Thompson 1-47 (another sterling performance).They both said afterwards they were a great support to each other. Anita Rogers , Heather Carty, Paula Hegarty 1-57 first Anita then Heather then Paula literally bang bang bang. Anita was great shouting out times and pacing encouragement which kept them on the straight and narrow thoughout the course
. Paula knocked 12 mins off  her Bohermeen half marathon time, she has put in so much work the last 6 months and showed off the results of that work yesterday. Jane Murphy of the super duo Jane and Sean put in a fantastic performance of 1-58 and looked great after the race . Sheila Quinn ran 2-08 and  finshed the race strong. She is already planning her next half marathon where she hopes to top that again. Finally a special mention to Ann McDonnell friend of Sheilas who came up from Mayo AC and hung out with us and put in a pb performance of 1.51 and loads of great advice too thanks Ann we will have to head down west en masse for one of your races

Written by Don Mahon and Heather Carty