""I still can't believe it,""
""From the third kilometre I was like, 'How am I supposed to keep this pace?' I was getting cramps here and there but I kept pushing. With 10 kilometres to go my legs seized up. I never felt so much lactate in my legs before. I couldn't even believe it until I saw the finish line. In my head, I was fighting demons the whole time. But I just kept pushing, kept pushing.""
""You have these dreams that if the perfect day comes together you could pull off something like that, but when it actually happens, it's just surreal.""
Crean, 19, ran 2:34:11 in Dublin on her marathon debut, finishing sixth overall and claiming the national title, shaving over nine minutes from her previous best of 2:43:38. Ann Marie McGlynn took national silver in 2:36:24 and Nichola Sheridan bronze in 2:39:55. Crean experienced cramps and heavy lactate, with her legs seizing 10 kilometres from the finish, but she continued to push to the end. David McGlynn, 26, won the men's national title in 2:10:59, beating his previous best by more than four minutes, with Ryan Creech second (2:11:46) and Paul O'Donnell third (2:12:11). The race began on Leeson Street Lower in cool, damp conditions, passed through the city centre and Phoenix Park, finished at Mount Street Upper, and drew a record turnout surpassing the 2019 40th‑anniversary event.
Read at Irish Independent
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