Cork City Marathon Returns

Bank Holiday Monday, 4th June 2007, will see Cork City host its first Marathon since 1986.

The race will incorporate a wheelchair category and a Team Relay Event, in which teams of between two and four runners will compete in the 26-mile, 385-yard (42.195km) course. The race will set off from the South Mall at 9.00am, covering a single circuit of the city’s suburbs through Blackpool, Sunday’s Well, the Carrigrohane Road, the Lough, Skehard Road, Mahon, the Marina, South Main Street and Washington Street, to finish on the South Mall.

The Event Manager, Gina Johnson, said _This will be an exciting sporting event for athletes. We want to see everyone in the city and suburbs on the streets to support the runners._

Dublin

Half Marathon, Clonbur, Co Galway (30 mles from Galway city, 8 miles from Ballinrobe)

Monday 4th June

Start time: 12 noon

Entry fee: €15 pp

As part of the Sheep Shearing Festival in the village all weekend

Start from the Community Centre in the village, where entries will be taken. The race will also finish there. Refreshments will also be served at the Centre after the race and showers will be available at the local GAA pitch.

The circuit goes from Clonbur, around the lake to Cornamona and back to Clonbur. Plenty of hills and climbs!!

Water stops at:

4.5 miles

Touraneena, Co.Waterford

Contact: Gerry Cantwell 086-3503571, Tony Ryan 087-7657805, James Veale 086-8184762