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18th May 2010Jason Smyth--Flying in Florida!

Another busy week of competitive action gets underway tonight in Letterkenny with the annul Inter Firms 5K road race,starting at 7.30pm,closely followed by Wednesday nights Spar Bann 10K,the second in the new Series,in Bambridge at 7pm and then its back home on Thursday evening for the popular annual Foyle Valley promotion,Wilkies 5m Classic which should attract good numbers for the "out the Line" course on the Letterkenny Rd

Race HQ for Wilkies is the Long Tower Youth/Community Centre in the Brandywell where entries will be accepted from 6pm for the 7.30pm start.There is also a 5K Walk for anyone not quite up to running 5K so all fitness levels should be catered for.

Innishowen AC,s Joe McKinney won last Friday nights Culdaff 5K and his sister Helena Crossan took the womens race honours. McKinney let City of Derry,s Paddy Moore and another Innishowen man James Brown do all the pacemaking before producing a late surge for victory in 16m 21s.Moore clocked 16m 26s and Brown was on 16m 33s.

Helena Crossan had a very easy win finishing 10th overall in 18m 44s,Declan McCarthy was the top M45 with 17m 17s,Philip Donaghey posted 18m 3s for the M40 prize,Patrick Doherty took the M50 honours on 18m 21s and Peter Lilburn was in the M55 prizes again with 18m 50s. Photos here from Eoghan

Double PB Joy For Jason.
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Currently based in Florida,local sprint star Jason Smyth showed just how much sun and warmth can boost the fast men as last weekend he scorched to impressive new 100m/200m PB,s of 10.41s and a quite brilliant 21.09s for the longer sprint.He produced these magnificent early season runs at a meeting in Tampa and looks set for a really impressive 2010 season. Coach Stephen Maguire,in Florida with his protogee will certainly have been impressed and encouraged that the upcoming European U23 championships could very well yield significant returns for the Eglinton Flyer!!

Gerry Lynch
16/5/10