Maiden Parkrun victory for Orla

Sat 5 March 2011--admin

Orla Smyth had a super run at the Waterworks 5k this morning, smashing her previous best by almost a minute to record 21:46. This performance gave her outright victory over the 60 other women running the event – her first overall win.

Peter Shaw placed 3rd in his M45-49 age-group with 21:32. This placed him 23rd overall from a field of 173 runners today. The revised Lisburn merit table after Orla’s big improvement now looks like this;

Men

1. Callum Shaw   19:06

2. Declan Morgan 19:29

3. Peter Shaw    20:40

4. Jonny McWhinney 21:14

5. Sean McGurnaghan 21:22

Women

1. Rachel Gibson 20:20

2. Orla Smyth 21:46

3. Alison Gibson 23:23

4. Sharon Kelly 23:53

5. Aoife Kelly-McCann 24:44

Note that Rachel Gibson’s performance is the top Lisburn age-graded performance overall! Callum leads the way on the men’s age-graded scores.