Waterford Road Runners
Friday July 4th, Dromana 5M, Ger Wyley/Nike Summer Series, Race 7
A beautiful evening for running, an amazingly scenic course (so someone said) and the promise of bucketloads of Cappoquin chicken tempted over 140 competitors out to celebrate  their own Independence Day on July 4th last. Of these, 18 were Waterford Road Runners and their names populated the results sheets from top to bottom. 
Top again was Mark Langford, finishing in a fantastic 27.03 and taking 8th place. A fantastic achievement considering the quality of his competition (i.e. lots of Kilkenny men up there!). Next home for the WRRs was Junior James Howley, who continues to prove, outing after outing, that hard training will yield results, despite only starting to run over 18 months ago. Watch this space for his name in future. Des Colbert is also reaping the benefits from his new training regime (1 large bottle of Guinness a day) and just pipped Davey Wade to the line. 
Next was another favourite son (or sometimes daughter) of the Road Runners, PJ Irish, who managed to regain some pride when he finished before all but one of the women (a fantastic Sinead Cummins) in the race. Tom O'Brien just missed the breaking the 32m barrier and was closely followed home by Joanne Jackman who, much improved since last year's race, claimed 3rd place in the ladies event in a time of 32.12. 
Paul Mooney and Nicholas Halley were separated by only 2s. Again, Paul's great time due to tougher training sessions up and down those hills in Tramore. Adele Walsh failed to catch Corina Walsh on the last stretch, unable to repeat her Touraneena sprint! Michael Flynn enjoyed his return to racing after a time away and finished well in 33.47. James Maguire, dashing as ever in his matching shorts (or very shorts as the case may be!), arrived in just ahead of fellow Waterford A.C. member Alan Everett. Davey Foley and Michael Leechmere finished well under the 37m mark and were no doubt pleased with their performances. 
Chelly Brennan proved that the sun always shines on her on the Waterford beaches (nice tan!!) and maintained her sub 40m goal. 2 minutes later, Helena Dunphy showed no ill-effects from her boyfriends absence and finished strongly about 20s before James Fitzgerald. Tim Sherman, last of our Road Runners to make it to the line finished under 49 minutes despite running the Golden Mile the previous night at the RSC (as did many others of course!).
Check out the full list of WRR and top 3 male and female finishing times here.
Complete set of results from West Waterford AC available here.
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