Johnny's Diary

No 32 Lifestyle Sports-Adidas Dublin City Marathon
Date added : 16-Nov-2009
 Paolo  Beatty  Marie Treasa  blighe  Michael  Brennan  Chelley  Brennan  Joanne  Brennan  Melissa  Browne  Gerard  burke  Annette  Cleary  Noel  Connolly  Elaine  Conroy  Tom  conway  james  Daly  Teresa  donegan  damien  Donnelly  Ronan  dowd  kevin  Duffy  Mark  Duffy  Jason  DUNNE  AINE  Dunne  Finola  EVANS  LUCIA  Fitzgerald  Michael  Foley  Alan  Gannon  Ciaran  Gibbons  Helen  gibbons  Alan  Halley  Brian  hanly  alan  Hannon  Philip  Hassett  Deirdre  Hyde  Noel  Kelly Ray Darcy  Maire  Kielty  Ciaran  LAIRD  ray  Leahy  Niall  LENNON  SHANE  Lloyd  Christina  mannion  veronica  Mc Aree  Ciara  Mc Hugo  colin  Mc Mahon  Helena  McConville  Niall  McGrath  Fergus  McHugo  Ciara  McMorrow  Karen  McNeill  helen  Meegan  Eimear  murphy  jason  Murphy  Chris  Murphy  Thomas  O Connor  Sean  o toole  ann  O'Brien  Ian  O'CALLAGHAN  Joe  O'Connor  Niall  O'CONNOR  Ray  O'Driscoll  Ciarán  O'GORMAN  Mitchell  O'Loughlin  Kieran  O'Sullivan  Alison  O'Toole  James  O'Toole  Gordon  Pidgeon  John  Russell  Ray  Speirs  John  Sweeney  Bryan  Swords  Niall  Valerin Vargas  Adolfo Alberto  Warman  Robert  wisley  john

 

   

 

Well its like this, i went to the expo and meet some of the runners who had joined run Johnny run for the Dublin marathon on the Saturday, i went to the hotel with my wife and we relaxed for the night, next day we spent all day at the expo before going to dinner with about 10 of the run Johnny run team, then we went to Fleetwood Mac at the O2 and at 2am made it to bed.

Next morning we all had some pictures taken before the race start at 9am, and off we went. That's all i am going to say because this marathon was about the people named below, there stories, reasons for running were just amazing and they were a delight to know and meet.

They gave up their time, they trained hard, they raised money for the poorest people in the world with whom they will probably never even meet and that kind of Love in the times we are living in right  now deserves a round of applause. Thank You Guys so much, your all true stars and well done.

Johnny xx  

Armani

                                                                                                                                                      
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