LSA proudly hosted the third edition of our Four Mile Peninsula Road Race on the 26th May. Over 400 adults took on the scenic route along the Broadmeadow estuary, Corballis and Balcarrick to the finish line on the Donabate Distributor Road. Our shorter kids races attracted over 100 young people. A course record was set in the Men’s race. Local Donabate resident David Rooney finished in a time of 20 mins 15 seconds, taking a huge 34 seconds off the previous men’s record.

Sincere thanks to our fantastic club members who volunteered to organise and help out on the day. Thanks to our main sponsor Glenveagh Homes and also Diesel Clothing for their invaluable support. Fingal County Council provided great support and help as always.

In other club news, we were very excited to see athlete Sineád Farrell don the green vest to join the Irish team in the European Off-Road Running Championships in Annecy, France. Sinead competed in two challenging Under 20 off-road races, with impressive performances in heavy rain and difficult terrain in the French Alps.

Sineád now joins Anna Gavigan (Discus) as the second LSA Under 20 athlete to have been selected for International representation at a European Championship.

Meanwhile closer to home, we had a great day at the graduation of our latest Couch to 5k group. Some of our graduates then went straight on to run the Women’s Mini Marathon and even take on Hell and Back!

Our Juvenile athletes have been taking part in the Dublin Championships in May and June. We’ve been delighted to see first-time participants taking on the challenge and many athletes achieving Personal Bests. It was our most successful Dublin Championships with a host of medals, a total of nine athletes qualifying for National finals and two athletes, Sinead Farrell (U19 3000m) and Cara Davison (U14 Discus) crowned Dublin Champion.

We look forward to seeing many of our young athletes at our summer camp in July. For everyone else training resumes at the end of the summer.