Double delight as Leevale’s Lee leads 11,000 runners home

A 32-year-old IT worker won her second consecutive Evening Echo Women’s Mini Marathon in Cork yesterday, just one week after she added the Killarney Mini Marathon to her belt.

Lizzie Lee from Leevale Athletics Club completed the four-mile challenge in 22 minutes, 3 seconds. St Finbarr’s Club took second place, with Clare McCarthy coming in just 10 seconds after Lizzie Lee.

Ms Lee said it wasn’t an easy run as she knew that there was a possibility of being caught short in the home straight.