Sonia warms-up in Loughrea ahead of NY marathon tilt

SONIA O’SULLIVAN will be back in action in Loughrea on Sunday when the spotlight will be on the Great Ireland Run - an event which she won in 1998 when she was a double world cross-country and European track champion.

She said yesterday she was looking forward to the Loughrea race which will be her last competitive appearance before she lines up for the New York marathon but how competitive she will be she was reluctant to predict.

“I am not sure what I am doing there but I am going there,” she said. “I don’t know exactly how I am going to run it. I don’t know who is in it or anything like that. But I would hope that it will be more of a training run.”