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Hét, Október 25, 2010
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31st edition of the Lifestyle Sports-adidas Dublin Marathon largest Irish field

Over 13,000 runners will descend on Fitzwilliam Square on Monday morning, 25th October for the 31st Lifestyle Sports-adidas Dublin Marathon ensuring Dublin’s status as one of the “friendliest” marathons remains intact. Despite the recession over seventy-four nations will be represented on Monday, and 2010 Irish field is the largest ever present.

“We are delighted to break the 13,000 mark for the first time” said Race Director Jim Aughney “And the key reason we have is the big increase in Irish entries. Irish people are back running again, and it bodes well for the sustained growth of Dublin into the future”

Whether the other course records are broken in 2010 remains to be seen, but with current
record holder, Russian Alexsey Sokolov making a return this year, organisers expect there to be a real challenge to the record held since 2007. In the Women’s Elite category, last year’s winner Kateryna Stetsenko (Ukraine) will be hoping for her second consecutive win in Dublin.

The Irish Elite field is strengthened by the presence of a number of the Marathon Mission 2012 candidates. The Marathon Mission Team was set up earlier this year to improve the competitive depth in quality of times being run by Irish Marathoners.

Joe McAllister is among the favourites to finish in a strong position whilst in the women’s field Gladys Ganiel O'Neill, Barbara Sanchez and Breege Connolly are also expected to make an impact.

While the elites will dominate the headlines on Tuesday, most of the 13,000 field on Monday are running for personal reasons, to overcome their own personal “impossible”. Among Monday’s starters will be “The Oireachtas Team”, led by Fine Gael TD Jimmy Deenihan. Deenihan’s Leinster House running colleagues including Lucinda Creighton, Mary Upton, Barry Andrews, James Reilly, Nicky McFadden, Brian O’Domhnaill, Fidelma Healy Eames, Frank Feighan and Damien English, all of who are running on behalf of various charities close to their hearts.

Lifestyle Sports CEO Mark Stafford said “Lifestyle Sports is passionate about running. Over the last 12 months due to the huge increase in demand from both female & male runners we’ve invested hugely in expanding our running offer to ensure, we’ve extended our position as the country’s leading running destination. On footwear in particular next spring we’ll role out a new service called ‘Find the Right Trainer for You’ which includes a foot scan and a fitting service. Our staff are highly trained to find the prefect trainer based on your foot profile, the level at which you run and of course your budget! We’d recommend anyone whose has an interest in running to check out the Lifestyle Sport-adidas technical stand at the Expo in the Main Hall, RDS and of course we wish everyone competing luck this weekend.”

Lord Mayor Gerry Breen will get the 31st running of the Lifestyle Sports adidas Dublin Marathon underway in Fitzwilliam Street Upper at 9am on Monday morning, and the first runner home will be expected in Merrion Square North shortly after 11am. Regular race updates will be available on FM104 and all results will be available on www.dublinmarathon.ie after 5.30pm on Monday.

Race number & chip collection is at Expo in the Main Hall, R.D.S. and runs from 12:00 to 18:00 hrs on Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th of October.