Barn and Seapark members perform well at local races

Members of Barn Runners at the Whitehead 5-mile road race. INLT 16-912-CON

The Whitehead event is in its 91st year and remains one of Northern Ireland’s oldest road races.

The course consisted of a challenging three laps of Whitehead in the spring heat and plenty of local spectators were on hand to give support.

Barn Runners finished the course in the following times: Yvonne McIlree 39:12, Jenna Dickson 39:16, Lynsey Grant 39:39, Robert Murray (time unrecorded), Siddharth Khowala 41:49.

The Titanic 10k times for Barn Runners were as follows: Colm Coyle 49:20, Yvonne McIlree 49:23, Karen Young 55:35, Diane Hylands 55:50, Barbara Porter 59:03.

Seapark AC

The great weather on Easter Monday attracted large crowds to Whitehead for the annual 5-mile road race.

Twelve athletes from Seapark completed the race with Ian Cleland taking eighth position overall and Jennie Haggan coming in first in the Under-19 age group.

Results: Ian Cleland 29:20, Jonathan Beattie 31:56, Mark Welsh 35:38, Lynda Shannon 36:12, Jonathan Bell 37:01, Philip Poag 39:58, Allan Grant 40:13, Karen Poag 41:26, Wesley Wallace 42:38, Jennie Haggan 42:40, Trevor Lamb 43:32, Alison Welsh 44:57.

On Sunday, almost 1,200 runners took part in the Titanic 10k race in Belfast. This event was well attended by athletes from Seapark with many gaining personal best times.

Ian Cleland ran a particularly strong race with a superb time of 37:46.

Club results: Ian Cleland 37:46, Jonathan Beattie 40:11, Mark Welsh 46:25, Neill Harper 50:23, Angela McCormick 50:28, Philip Poag 50:41, Karen Poag 52:14, Andy Smyth 52:25, Alison Welsh 55:51, Ann McCracken 58:09, KarenMcMaster 1:04 Geraldine Kane 1:10.

Further afield, Seapark’s Trevor Lamb completed the Paris Marathon and Bobbie Irvine, Gillian Barnhill, and Gary Connolly completed the week-long Marathon Des Sables in Morrocco.

Seapark welcome new members. Training takes place on Tuesday and Thursday evenings at 7pm at Carrickfergus Ampitheatre.