Vaughan yearns for home win

VALERIE VAUGHAN (Blarney/Inniscarra) is hoping to fulfil a lifetime ambition when she lines up for the Evening Echo Cork Ladies Mini Marathon on Sunday.

A member of the Irish team that won bronze medals at two world cross-country championships, she has figured in most of the big road races at some time or other.

"But I have never won the Cork mini marathon and, being my home town, it is a race I have always wanted to win," she said yesterday.