Jason Foley’s pace a massive asset on his quick rise to the top with Kerry via IrishTimesSport
“And I took it very seriously, up until about 17,” he says. “It got to the stage I was being called into the Kerry minor set-up, was still running seriously enough, but it got to the point I probably wasn’t going to be able to keep up both, would get stuck in the middle somewhere.
Speaking ahead of Kerry’s Munster final showdown with Clare this Sunday, at the five-year renewal of AIB’s championship sponsorship, Foley has no doubt those early years racing between the 100m flat and the 60m and 110m hurdles, served him well. “Even stuff like running mechanics was fashionable when I was coming on the scene, so maybe I was able to focus on other parts of my game, when I was a minor, because I knew I had the running mechanics anyway, could used my speed in different scenarios, so it definitely gave me a leg up.”
By his own admission too his weight-gain and physical maturity since his early sprinter days is “quite frightening”, although he’s lost little of that lightning pace.“There’s a good few up there . . . and I’m probably not the fastest, at the moment. Which is probably a good sign. Maybe Gavin White, or Jack O’Shea, they quite quick as well.
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