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Gregory Roberts scored his second local road race victory this month when he dominated the second Bob Mullan Motors 5K Series race sponsored by Dodds Bar. 

In the women’s race Margaret Synnott made a successful return to competition by scoring a close win over last year’s overall Series champion Shelagh Bodkin while Damian McGinty confirmed his status as top local masters performer.

Roberts, winner of the Grand National Gallop 5K three weeks earlier, took command of the race, held on a new lap course in the Coshowen area of Foyle Road, directly from the gun.  At the end of the first kilometre he was already well clear and had built up a sixty metres advantage by the halfway mark.

The City of Derry athlete kept the pressure on for second part of the race to break the tape in a more than respectable 15 minutes 50 seconds.

Gregory Well Clear

Behind him, Letterkenny youngster Alan Cavanagh and City’s Seamus Kealey fought out a fierce duel for the runner-up spot.  The 16-year-old led by about a foot at the kilometre marker but the older and stronger Kealey looked as though he would draw away as the race progressed. 

However, young Cavanagh would not lie down and caused quite a shock in moving away in the final half mile to take the silver award in an excellent time, for his age, of 16:18 with Kealey a further five seconds back in third.

Damian McGinty made a rare appearance in local low-key competition to take the masters’ M40 prize with a time of 16:39 in what surprisingly was his first ever race over the distance.  

Foyle Valley clubmate Sammy McAnaney was the leading M45 with Maghera veterinarian Jim Breen first among the M50s.  The redoubtable Jimmy Reid, at 67 years of age, showed a clean pair of heels not only to the over 60s but many less than half his age after clocking an amazing 19:45 for the 3.1 miles distance.

To be running competitively again let alone winning was an obvious delight for Margaret Synnott after being sidelined for the best part of a year with a foot injury.  After conventional physiotherapy had failed to remedy the problem, the former NI cross country champion finally found that acupuncture did the trick.

Martin Gormley on the way to one of his best runs ever

The Carndonagh athlete who now runs in the colours of the Letterkenny club started cautiously but judiciously timed her effort to perfection to overhaul Shelagh Bodkin on the last lap, sneaking a narrow five-second victory in 19:09.  Jackie McMonagle continued her habit of making the podium with a strong run for third in 20:58.

Almost 50 runners signed up for the race despite the counter attractions of a Champions League semi-final and the proximity of London and Belfast Marathons.