German race is no help to Dineen

Darren Dineen suffers badly in another slow race

With only a possible two attempts left time is running out for the Corkman.

August 23 Cottbus, Germany Darren Dineen again suffered from poor pacing in his bid to achieve the ever-increasingly unlikely A standard at the Lausitz-Meeting in Cottbus last night.A slow and tactical race developed after an opening lap of 52.2 with Darren hanging back in the early stages.Hisefforts were to no avail as the pace slowed and the finish was left to a sprint where was caught a bit unawares from our reports and dropped two places to come home 7th.I spoke today to Victor Manuel Martinez, a training partner of mine from my time in Barcelona who finished 10th in Darren`s race and he had this to say of Darren`s performance He (Darren) ran hard throughout and got away from me in the finishing straight but he was too passed by the leaders. When I asked Victor if he thought Darren would achieve the standard he said

I`ve only ever seen the lad run once but I`d reckon with a better set of pacemakers he could do it.It`s not that he isn`t good enough, it`s just that out there last night the track was slow and the weather muggy which wasn`t helped by poor pacers from 400m-600m.He has a better chance then me!Good luck to him

Darren has had offers from races in Northern Italy and I believe he will take up the promoters and race in Padova on Saturday with another possible fixture of Rovereto on Monday night.Also I know that word from the Dineen camp is that the fabulous meeting in Rieti is also not out of the picture.Indeed the Dineen camp is still upbeat after this setback.Darren has now suffered three races where all the winners times have been outide the A standard.

The race winner was Said Lakhal of Germany in a time of 1.47.41.Russian Olympian Boris Kraveshnikov was second in 1.47.58 with Darren 7th in 1.47.95 slightly better than his time in the nationals on Sunday.

A fantastic performance from DSD`s Des English to follow up his national bronze medal from the weekend meant he slashed his PB in the 1500m running 3.43.84 for 6 th place..The winner of the race qas Julius Achon of Uganda in a time of 3.39.47.We commend Des on his fantastic strides this year

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