Team Carrie Marathon Runners

Team Carrie Marathon Runners Team Carrie Marathon Runners Ireland was established in 2010 by international athlete David Carrie t

Team Carrie was the brainchild of International Runner and Athlete David Carrie who is a postman in his every day life and resident of Dunleer in Mid-County Louth. David was and is a long distance runner and competed at senior and international levels in Ireland. Over the years David encountered many people who said “I would love to be able to do a marathon” and that is where the notion began. Dav

id was invited by Dublin City Marathon organisers to become a pace athlete for the marathon in 2009. During the course of his training David had to teach himself the discipline of slowing his pace in order to get others across the line in their aspired times. David very quickly became aware of the personal value and sense of achievement he got from helping others, based on his experiences as a runner, by guiding them through a marathon to achieve their goals. David decided that he wanted to do something similar in his home village of Dunleer – to train a group of people with little or no running experience to complete a marathon irrespective of age or running ability over a 22 week training programme that he himself had tried and tested over the years. In 2010 Team Carrie was established and launched on LMFM radio on Gerry Kelly’s Late Lunch Show and has grown each year from 24 the first year to 154 people in 2015 completing the marathon in the Team Carrie colours.

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Team Carrie is the brainchild of International runner and athlete David Carrie who is a postman in his every day life and resident of Dunleer in Mid-County Louth. David was and is a long distance runner and competed at senior and international levels in Ireland. Over the years David encountered many people who said “I would love to be able to do a marathon” and that is where the notion began. David was invited by Dublin Marathon organisers to become a pace athlete for the marathon in 2009. During the course of his training David had to teach himself the discipline of slowing his pace in order to get others across the line in their aspired times. David very quickly became aware of the personal value and sense of achievement he got from helping others, based on his experiences as a runner, by guiding them through a marathon to achieve their goals. David decided that he wanted to do something similar in his home village of Dunleer – to train a group of people with little or no running experience to complete a marathon irrespective of age or running ability over a 22 week training programme that he himself had tried and tested over the years. In 2010 Team Carrie was established and launched on LMFM radio on Gerry Kelly’s Late Lunch Show and has grown each year from 24 the first year to 154 people in 2015 completing the marathon in the Team Carrie colours.

2019 will see Team Carrie start it’s 10th and final year bringing a team to the Dublin Marathon. In the 9 years until now, over 950 runners have crossed the Dublin Marathon line with Team Carrie and over a quarter of a million Euros has been raised for charity. Not too shabby for a decades work!