Ryan will start favourite to win mini marathon

ROSEMARY RYAN, with the world half marathon championships just around the corner, will go to the line as favourite for the Evening Echo Cork Women’s Mini-Marathon on Sunday afternoon.

It will be a first appearance in the Cork showpiece for the woman who has figured in practically all of the major races in the country at some stage in a career that appeared to be in jeopardy last year when she missed a whole season through injury.

“It was a problem with my hip which I ignored for too long,” Ryan admitted. “But it was all pretty frustrating.”