‘There’s only a few of us left … I feel so blessed that I’ve been able to get to the start every year’
It is an elite club that you can leave but never join, says 61-year-old Martin Kelly. as he comes off a golf course in Portmarnock, Co Dublin.
Three of her Dublin marathons stand tall — the one when she broke three hours, the one she ran six months pregnant and the one she ran in 2017 with her ex-husband who was in a wheelchair the year before he died.She is certainly not wrong. In 1980 about 2,000 hardy runners competed. Tomorrow 22,500 people will cross the starting line of the Irish Life Dublin Marathon having completed a cumulative total of almost 34 million training miles.
Nolan Hickey took up athletics in 1968 on a whim. “I ran a race I think it was only probably about maybe 200m and liked it so kept coming back.” While one Hickey is running her 44th race — including two virtual events during the pandemic — another Hickey is running her first.
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