Aoife Cooke hopes she has the ingredients to realise Olympic dream

Aoife Cooke (Youghal AC) carved 14 minutes off her best to take the national title in 2:32:34 at the 2019 Dublin marathon.

“What was the secret, they wanted to know; in a thousand different ways they wanted to know The Secret. And not one of them was prepared, truly prepared to believe that it had not so much to do with chemicals and zippy mental tricks as with that most unprofound and sometimes heart-rending process of removing, molecule by molecule, the very tough rubber that comprised the bottoms of his training shoes.”

– John L. Parker Jr, Once a Runner