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Published 18:35 1 May 2021 BST
Updated 18:50 1 May 2021 BST
That whole experience was satisfying and it was forgotten about until this Tuesday, when I read about Emer McKee and now it turns out that life, never mind 5ks, won't ever be the same. The 12-year-old Willowfield Harrier hasn't just broken the world record, no, much more importantly, she's broken the deluded visions of fitness going on not just in mine, but in many other minds too.
You know what they say, you think you're fit until a 12-year-old beats your 5k time by two minutes and twenty nine seconds. With her world-record breaking time of 16 minutes and 40 seconds, as well as forcing many a good long look in the mirror, that's exactly what this little star has done.
After a net-ball game and before a Gaelic football session, SportsJOE caught up with the incredible young queen of Belfast and it turns out the 12-year-old is just as good a talker as she is a runner.
"And then there were no more races," she says, as she talks her attempts to break the record for 11-year-olds.
"And then I turned 12."The rest, as they say, is in the book. https://twitter.com/SportsJOEdotie/status/1388181277900161024 As for the rest of us, where's that god-damned drawing board?
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