On November 2nd of this year, four months before the Ballycotton 10k Road Race is due to take place, organisers have had to deal with 1,600 entries. Because of the enormous interest close to 500 of those had to be returned. There are, however, a limited number of elite places remaining. Interested? Try www.ballycottonrunning.com.

In addition, Andrew Walker's three minutes 58.96 seconds run in San Francisco a number of weeks ago gave the Newbridge athlete entry to the elite Irish sub-four minute mile club. Taking the scalp of American Olympian Jason Pyrah on the way, Walker takes the number of Irish sub-four milers to 29.