'Chief baker' Mary presented with cake to mark her 100th Mountlucas parkrun

More than 40 people, including seven first-timers, took part in the Mountlucas parkrun on a pleasant but windy Saturday morning last.

The highlight of the day was Mary Dunne's 100th parkrun.

Mary has been involved in the run from its inception and always has a friendly smile and a kind word for everyone. She took on the mantle of chief baker for Mountlucas, regularly bringing lemon drizzle cake to be enjoyed after the run.

Mary is best-known for baking a special cake for anyone celebrating a 50th or 100th run milestone.

This week the organisers could not ask her to bake her own cake, so Karen Neary, another Mountlucas volunteer, took on the challenge and baked a fabulous cake especially for Mary.

One of Mountlucas’ junior participants, Fiadh, also made a poster to celebrate Mary's accomplishment and this was displayed proudly at the finish line.

Mountlucas Parkrun is based at Mountlucas Wind farm outside Daingean.

See: https://www.parkrun.ie/mountlucas/ to register and for more details.