73 take part in annual turkey trot

January 2010

Eleven of the 73 runners who took part in Sunday's annual turkey trot over 5K hosted by Letterkenny AC were within four seconds of their predicted time.

The event, which was cancelled two weeks earlier because of the poor weather, was won by by Pauric McKinney in a time of 15:41, with Mark English second in 14:48 and Gary Crossan third third in 15:50. Maria McCambridge was first woman home in a time of 16:33.

The first local race of the new year also marked the rerun to competitive action of Letterkenny AC's double Olympian, Danny McDaid - the former postman - clocked 21:43 for the 5K distance, some 57 seconds quicker than his predicted time.

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