Sunday morning saw athletes from across NI heading to Portadown for the annual running festival, which involves a 10k and half marathon. The Half Marathon starts and finishes at Portadown Rugby club with the fast flat route taking in one large loop of the People’s Park. A number of runners would have been using this race as final preparation for the London and Belfast Marathons.

Start of the Portadown Half Marathon

EDAC had two runners taking on the Half Marathon, Gordy Graham, who has not had a competitive race in over seven months and was not sure what form he was in, with a top quality field Gordy will be very happy with his fourth position and a time of 1 hr 13 min 33 sec. Great running thats 3 min 31 sec per Kilometer.

Dee Murray also toed the line for the Half Marathon, an old hand at this distance he ran a steady 1 hr 28 min 39 sec in 101st position out of 684 runners, great preparation for the Manchester Marathon in April. A great effort from both of the guys.

Dee Murray moving through the field at the Portadown Half