Keelan Kilrehill happy to take the hard road to cross-country success

15 November 2023; Keelan Kilrehill of Moy Valley AC pictured at the launch of the 123.ie National Senior and Even Age Cross Country Championships which take place in Gowran Demesne on Sunday November 19th 2023. Tickets and further information available at AthleticsIreland.ie. Photo by David Fitzgerald/Sportsfile
The harder it is, the happier he’ll be. Wind, rain and mud? Happy days. A hard pace from the gun? Grandest. Keelan Kilrehill knows there’s no easy route to the European Cross Country Championships and so, when the gun fires at the nationals in Gowran tomorrow, he’ll be ready to hurt.
“It’s a hard week, a pressurised week,” he says. Finish in the top three and he’ll automatically secure his spot on the Irish senior team for the event in Brussels next month. Anything outside of that and he’ll be at the mercy of selectors. “I’ll have to put in as good a race as ever to get on that team.”
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