12 North Down athletes took part in the Ulster & NI even age-group champs – making it a total of 27 NDAC athletes spanning age groups from U12 to M65 for the days racing!
Staring with the youngest first, Chloe Johnston finished a creditable 23rd in a massive field of 92. Taking the best honours of the day were the U14 boys team who took the NI & Ulster team race with 51 points with a brilliant individual bronze from Glen Willis and great team support from Harry Spears (11th), Roger Dawson (15th) & Sam McKibben (22nd) – who qualify for the Irish age group champs.
Conor O’Boyle had a solid run (54th) in the U16 Boys, while Leigh McWha and Clare Scott finished 24th & 27th respectively in the tough U18 girls age-group.
[Not a valid template]The final age group race over 5K for the U18 boys saw the club narrowly miss a team bronze, but it was still a valiant effort by Mark Patterson 9th (& suffering with a bad cold), Brian Barron 15th, Jordan Stokes 21st & Kieran Staub 31st.