Carnethy Results

Fri 19 February 2010 - Ian Taylor

The Carnethy 5 was held for the 40th time last weekend, with excellent performances from local athletes. Best result should proibably go to Shileen O'Kane of BARF finishing 4th lady and 1st vet 40.

Local athletes included

Place	Atlete	Clib	Cat	Time
53	Ryan Stewart	Larne AC	MJ	1:00:49
67	Andy Gregg	Larne AC	M40	1:02:47
72	Stephen Kennedy	Larne AC	M40	1:03:16
86	Glenn Donnelly	Sperrin Harriers	M	1:04:11
93	Ryan Maxwell	Larne AC	M	1:04:49
108	William Thompson	Larne AC	M40	1:05:47
141	Shileen O'Kane	BARF	F40	1:07:56
187	Justin Maxwell	Larne AC	M	1:10:57
195	Diane Wilson	Lagan Valley AC	F40	1:11:30
213	Brian Wilson	Lagan Valley AC	M40	1:12:29
219	Peter Howie	Larne AC	M50	1:13:30
352	Martina Elliott	Lagan Valley AC	F40	1:24:14
385	Barbara Brown	Mourne Runners	F50	1:28:15
485	Iryna Kennedy	Lagan Valley AC	F40	2:31:00
DNF	Brian Spence	Larne AC	M40

Ryan Stewart was the first overseas finisher, collecting the Abernethy Quaich and was also the second junior.

Shlieen collected the Gordon Trophy for her vet40 performance. and improved considerably on her previous times.

The overall race was won by Rob Jebb for a record fifth time, taking 48:41 while first female was Claire Gordon in 98th place overall in 1:05:12.

Ladies record holder Angela Mudge is currently cycling down South America from Equador and has arrived in Patagonia where she promply finished second in the local mountain race.

Larne AC finished 9th male team out of 24 while the Lagan Valley Ladies were 12th out of 14 teams.

Five new athletes joined the "21 club" with 21 or more completions of the race, including Robin Morris, former chair of the UKA MOuntain Running Group.