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Members of the BTR/Tralee Marathon Club pictured recently in Dingle with one of the famous club flags.
THERE’S two members of the Born To Run Club that can testify to being some of the most travelled members of the group without ever having laced up a pair of running shoes.
The BTR club flags are the members in question and since their arrival into the tight knit group of runners, they’ve been from Las Vegas to Paris, Belfast to Berlin and a whole other load of places in between.
They’re quite different in terms of appearance with the older of the two sporting the tri-colour look while the younger and newer member keeps it simple with the BTR native colour of dark blue.
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Ashley Keane O’Shea is the owner of the more frequently used tri-colour flag and she confirmed the suspicions of this writer in a conversation last night when she said that there is a huge sense of pride in the BTR family and the flags are a symbol of pride for club members.
Just last weekend, the two travelled to Berlin with local club members Conor Cusack and Den McCarthy where they saw the sights of the Olympic Stadium before heading off to support the two runners as they completed the Berlin Marathon.
The club symbols have been all over in the last number of months with trips to Las Vegas, Paris and nearly every county in Ireland already checked off the list with flights already booked for trips to Amsterdam and Istanbul in the near future.
It’s now become somewhat of a club tradition to pose with the flags either before or after the race and with a large number of runs still to come before the end of the year, the two most seasoned members of the club have a bit to go before they can retire and rest up for the winter.
They wouldn’t have it any other way.
Check out the photos of the flags in action below…
BTR members pictured with their club flag after they marched in the St Patricks Day Parade for completing Tralee marathon. Photo: Born To Run Facebook.
Born to Run members pictured with the flag at the Eiffel Tower in Paris before the Paris Marathon in February. Photo: Born To Run Facebook.
Conor Cusack in the Olympic Stadium in Berlin at the weekend.
BTR members flying the flag proudly in Paris earlier this year.
Tralee’s Tom Foley flying the BTR flag after he completed his 24 hour run in Belfast earlier this year. Photo: Born To Run Facebook.
Den McCarthy pictured with the second of the BTR flags at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin this past weekend. Photo: Born To Run Facebook.
BTR members pictured flying the flag before a run in Las Vegas last year. Photo: Born To Run Facebook.
BTR members marching in this years St Patrick’s Day Parade. Photo: Born To Run Facebook.
BTR members pictured in Courtmacsherry after completing their run. Photo: Born To Run Facebook.
Brian Ó Sé of BTR poses proudly with the flag after completing the Tralee 100k Ultra Marathon back in August. Photo: Born To Run Facebook.
