Pegasus AC breeze through Albertville 5!

Last Saturday saw 4 Pegasus athletes make the fairly long trip to Belfast for the Albertville 5, traditionally the 1st road race of the year to mark the new season. 

Chris Denton, Harry ‘the Marathon Man’ Reilly, Kyle ‘the Giant’ Millar and Ralph Thom managed to establish good performances in a 130 strong field, but they had another contender to deal with in the race… Mother Nature!  The winds slowed all runners down to a snails pace in parts of the race but with the wind on the runners backs in other parts, made many look like Olympians!  The race itself was based around Duncrue Industrial Estate and consisted of 2.5 laps of running.

Chris managed a solid 29:43, quite a bit off his fast personal best but none the less a Pegasus leading performance.  Harry ‘the Marathon Man’ was able to adjust to the ‘small’ 5 mile distance very well and “takin it easy” as is Harry’s motto, managed a personal best of 32:09!  Kyle, a relatively new member ran a personal best of 35:22 to continue from strength to strength.  Ralph also established a new personal best of 37:03 to show Pegasus athletes are made of strong stuff no matter what the conditions!