Race Report by Siobhan Grant
It was a very damp Saturday morning lakeside for the weekly run out at Castlewellan Parkrun. The sky probably still drying its eyes after losing an hours sleep last weekend.
None the less, with the tagline of ‘you only get wet once’, many of the Newcastle AC Juniors, their parents and a few of the Junior Coaches brought along their own sunshine in the form of their smiles and toed the line under the watchful eye of Race Director, Joe McCann.
As the race brief got underway, many of the runners, who, still half asleep, were sent into momentary panic as a convincing Mr McCann outlined that the precourse check had resulted in the need for the normal course to be rerouted due to a fallen tree on the infamous Crow Road, pausing long enough for runners to feel the fear of running up the hill to the Castle. Soon he finishing off his announcement indicating that we would be running Slievenaslat, eventually the penny dropped and everyone caught on it was just a very convincing April Fools joke. Thankfully.