Cullen needs no key to unlock Tullamore course

Not even a missing spike key could deter Mary Cullen from dominating the Woodie’s DIY Inter Club Cross Country Championships in Charleville Estate in Tullamore yesterday.

Cullen needs no key to unlock Tullamore course

“I must have texted half the country,” smiled Cullen (North Sligo) before the race as she was looking for a key to tighten the spikes on her shoes last night. She needn’t have worried in bright conditions and a reasonably firm course as she went to the lead from the gun and was a resounding winner of the 8,000m distance from DSD’s Linda Byrne and North Belfast Harriers’ Breege Connolly.

“It was good to get out there and get the feel for cross country,” said Cullen who hasn’t run a cross country race for close to three years.

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