Bohermeen the venue for Meath road relays
Bohermeen Athletic Club will stage he annual Meath road relay championships on Tuesday next at 7.30pm at Neilstown on the road adjacent to Bohermeen Community Centre.
This year's event will have the added bonus of the Mattie McGrath memorial trophy go to the winning men’s team and the ladies winning team will have the Joe Kenny Cup.
The event is for registered AAI members only with teams of four and categories to include 800m, one mile, one and a half miles and the final leg of two miles.
Teams may enter on the night before 7pm.
It will be a busy week for the Bohermenn club as the annual general meeting will take place the following evening, Wednesday 10th May at 8pm.
Then, in June, the 32nd Patrick Bell & Nicky Phillips Memorial 5k will take place on Saturday 10th June 10th at 7-30pm.
The event returns to its usual evening berth and will have the usual live music and barbecue.
This year a team of runners from southern France will take part and there are special medals for all finishers.
Entry is €15 through www.myrunresults.com . The event is open to all ages and families and all local school children and local sporting clubs are asked to take part wearing their colours.
OLIVIA MARTIN
One of the best performances over last weekend came from Bohermeen athlete Olivia Martin, who was in action in the Limerick Marathon on Sunday last.
The Limerick marathon was Olivia’s debut over the 26-mile distance.
Since returning to athletics she has won a number of road races and placed regularly in her category.
As she faced the starter at 9am along with some 1,000 runners she passed through midway quite fast in 1h:34m and she used her great experience well and held her form to the finish
to post a time of 3:17.07 for fifth lady overall behind the winner former Irish Olympian Pauline Curley from Tullamore