She has a few explanations about why she started running - “a couple of dogs started chasing me” is one of them - but it’s thought it all started when she was doing keep-fit at Brooke Park and Martin McCallion suggested she should join them for a jog instead of getting on another machine.

She’s never looked back. Last year she did “six half-marathons, one full marathon, most of the 5ks and 10ks” and probably a few more she’s forgotten about.

It seems Kate’s husband Tim doesn’t share the interest - “he reckons he has the body of a God and he doesn’t need to run.”

There’s four in the family - Toni, who’s off in Australia at the moment, Laura, Timothy and Emma.

Kate’s just after doing the Belfast marathon on the 5th May - “Harry McNulty took me around”, she says - and in the best time of the three she’s done so far, 3:50:27.

She’s out training most nights except Saturday night, when she says, “I do a Sue Ellen and then I die on Sunday”.