Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Hodgins impresses in New York: News in brief

* Hermes’ Jill Hodgins produced a stunning run last weekend as she slashed nearly 14 minutes off her personal best marathon time in New York.

She completed the world’s largest marathon in a time of 2:52.21; good enough to see her finish as 24th woman overall and sixth in her class.

It also catapulted her to ninth in the all-time Irish list in just her third encounter with the 26.2 mile distance, having previously completed the Toronto and Dublin equivalents.

* Ireland’s Over 40s finished a creditable fifth in their first shot at the International Masters Hockey Tournament in Hong Kong.

They picked up wins against the host nation (3-2) and Singapore (1-0) from their six matches in a high quality field which featured greats from Australia, New Zealand and England.

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Your'e a LEGEND Hodgy!!!

Anonymous said...

Congrats Jill an awesome achievement.

Jill forget hockey concentrate on London 2012!!!

Anonymous said...

I second 1.58's observation - Seriously Jill, shave another 14 mins off the next one and you'll be on course for Olympic qualification! Well done.

Anonymous said...

class...

Anonymous said...

What about Brian scully last monday, marathon man. Weston in good fettle generally for marathons (pity bout the hockey!!) 4 club members with marathons under their belt since september. Scully Walsh Maguire Graham

Anonymous said...

Hodge superb stuff - well done...!!

Anonymous said...

What times did the Weston crew do???

Anonymous said...

bit harsh on weston as far as i know they are making good progress under alan.heard scully did it in 3hr22m and maguire did it in 4hr2m not sure on the rest

Anonymous said...

scully ran with a pig on his back and got 3hr15