Good Racing at “Festival of Miles”

There were 110 or so runners of all ages and abilities at Mary Peters on Tuesday evening at a Joint BMC-NIRunning Featival of Miles, the 3^rd in an annual series. An appropriate date as it was 60 years to the day since Bannister first broke the 4 minute mile. There were no sub 4’s this evening though Michael Dyer did his duty as pacemaker in the elite mile but by then a pleasant evening weatherwise had gone bad well before the 10^th race. No hang-ups from the Marathon Relay Squad (those that could still run). Rachel Gibson won the Elite Ladies race in 5:13.49 from Jessica Craig in 5:16.83. In fact North Down had 1^st, 2^nd and 5^th fastest ladies, Francis Marsh and Craig McMeechan were by far the fastest Master and fastest Junior with Stephen Wylie and Dennis Scott 6^th and 7^th overall.

Full Results:  NiRunning and BMC present a ‘Festival of Miles’ 2014 Results – A video of the Elite Men’s Mile (courtesy of East Down AC) is available HERE and the Elite Ladies Race HERE