Arglass 10k, 30/07/25
2 NDAC runners headed down to Ardglass on Wednesday evening for the annual 10k race around the undulating roads surrounding the scenic fishing village. Les Wilkinson was the first of the club’s finishers in 45:33 while Pat O’Driscoll picked up an award as the oldest competitor after finishing in 1:18:27.
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Ashley Dixon wins Roadrunners Night of Races 5k, Eikon Conference Centre, 01/08/25
Belfast based running club, Roadrunners AC organised a series of flat, fast races in the grounds of the Eikon Conference Centre, the former HMP Maze site, on Friday evening. North Down AC were represented in the 3k, 5k and 10k events. Caitlyn Dickenson finished 9th in the 3k race in 12:52 and Pat O’Driscoll was back in action for another 10k, finishing in 1:04:51.
Ashley Dixon ran a 50 second PB to win the 5k in 15:21.
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Run the Trails, Mount Stewart 02/08/25
Another popular event in the running calendar always eagerly anticipated by local runners is Scrabo Striders’ Run the Trails in the grounds of the Mount Stewart estate. Course changes this year enforced by fallen trees ongoing from the storms earlier this year meant that 10k runners were challenged by an extra climb up to the Temple of the Winds!
In the 2k race the Mair brothers took 1st and 3rd place on the podium with Sebastian winning in 7:37 and Harrison coming 3rd in 8:27. Lucy Kane finished in 10:39
Sarah Connolly was leading the women’s 5k until she was misdirected at the final turn occasioning an additional out and back with the 10k runners before getting back to her 5k course; she still made it to the podium but in 3rd place in 24:16. Selina Patchett also raced the 5k in 29:57.
Sarah Wilson replaced Sarah Connolly on the 3rd step of the podium as 3rd female in the 10k. Kyle McLellan was 2nd overall after battling with the Spanish winner throughout the race, finishing in 36:31. Mickael Lenu was 4th in 40:23. Alan Hartley 47:17, Tim Cooke 48:16, Sarah Wilson 50:16, Paula Simpson 56:35, James Gage 59:46 and Emma Hegarty 1:00:29 also had great races over the tough but beautiful 10k route.
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Pat O’Driscoll, Féile an Phobail 10k, 03/08/25
I’ll need to refer to the club statisticians for confirmation, but I suspect that three 10k races in four days may be a North Down AC club record! Pat O’Driscoll’s barely had time to wash and dry his North Down vest before pinning another race bib to the front on Sunday morning at the west Belfast community festival’s 10k road race. Ardglass and the Maze took nothing out of Pat’s legs as he ran this 10k in 1:16:02.
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PBs at the Irish Senior Championships, Santry 03/08/25
Daniel Dines warmed up for the Irish senior champs track 5k with a midweek 4:05.60 1500m at the Dublin open meet 8. In the men’s 5000m at the Irish Senior Championships at Santry on SundayDaniel ran a truly smart race. He went through 3k in 9:06 and then made his usual final surge to smash his PB by 11seconds to clock 15:06.67 (4th in the B race).
In the 200m Conor Adair and Matthew Knight also ran PBs in the 200m, Conor in 22.62 and Matthew in 23.73.
Both raced in the 400m also with Matthew running 51.40 and Conor running 53.60.
Rachel McCann won silver in the 400m in 53.19, improving from 53.72 in her heat.
Jamie Moffatt ran a season’s best 10.85 in his heat in the 100m, but had to settle for 10.94 in the semi final.
Harry Jackson ran 12.15 in his heat in the 100m and jumped 5.74m in the senior men’s long jump.
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