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Upcoming Community Games Cross-Country
Galway Community Games will be holding their qualifiers for the Mosney cross-country finals on Sunday 1st April at 2.30pm in Renmore.
For anyone unfamilar with this event, this is a seperate competition within the Community Games for cross-country with the National finals held in Mosney on the weekend of 12/13 May.
In preparation for this and as trials to see who has the potential to enter the Galway event, the club will be holding a series of races on Sunday 25th Feb at 12.30pm in Packy Martyn's field behind Craughwell NS. There will be races for the following:- U8 300m, U10 500m, U12 600m, U13 1200m, U14 800m. Medals will be awarded in each age group.
Note the above are local races and open to members of the athletic club and also to non-members who are in the Craughwell Community Games area. They will be used to select runners to take part in the Galway finals in Renmore on 1 April. Any number of runners can go forward to the Galway finals but only 3 age groups are available in the Galway finals:- U12, U13 and U14.
Busy Day at Connacht Indoors
Another early morning start was in store for 62 of Craughwell AC’s juvenile athletes as they journeyed to Nenagh for the 2007 Connacht Indoors Track & Field last Saturday, 10th Feb. Events got underway at 10.30am, kicking off with the U12, 14, 16 and 18 relays. There were many highlights on the day for the club – with some very impressive performances across all the age groups and the juvenile club doing very well overall, winning 15 Connacht titles, 9 silver and 13 bronze. The following are just some of the more eventful moments during the day’s competition:-
5k race series announced for May 2007
Dates have been announced for this Summer's 5k race series in Galway. Over 15 members of the club took part in last year's series in Athenry, Tuam, Craughwell and Dangan and all thoroughly enjoyed the experience. It is hoped to add to these numbers this year in the 5 race series. The club hope to coordinate entries to the series in advance and perhaps also coordinate a meet-and-train session to help those for whom it may be their first race and also to encourage more experienced runners to do it.
The following is the official announcment of the series ...
Craughwell Community Games fundraiser
Check out www.craughwell.ie for details of poker classic fundraiser this Friday 9th Feb in Cawleys.
If you're in the Craughwell area for Community Games, please support it as its the only fund-raiser for the Community Games and only occurs every 2nd year.
Senior circuit training changing from Fridays to Thursdays
We are changing the day for the Friday night circuit training session in Craughwell hall from Fridays to Thursdays commencing this week.
So it will run from 9 to 10pm starting from this Thursday 8th Feb.
Read more: Senior circuit training changing from Fridays to Thursdays
Athletics Development News
New newsletter issued today from Paul McNamara, Regional Development Officer, with lots of useful information particularly on upcoming training courses. Check it out at http://www.galwayathletics.com/dmdocuments/Newsletter_West_Region_1.pdf.
Craughwell AC Committee 2007
A very successful AGM was held on Thursday 11th January. The following were elected as Committee for 2007:-
- Chairperson: Diarmuid Quill (087 2355303)
- Secretary: Michael Tobin (087 6591879) (also PRO)
- Treasurer: Mary Greaney (087 9141505)
- Registrar: Maria Gaffney (087 4120746)
- Competition Secretary: Sarah Finnegan (086 0824858)
- Vice Chairperson: Tom Finnegan (087 2959761)
- Assistant Secretary: Julie Gallagher (086 8700916 )
- Assistant Treasurer: Gerry Treacy (085 1742754)
Additional Committee Members:
- Alison Finn (087 6626040)
- Brendan Treacy (087 2487720)
- Mary Porter (086 3001954)
- Pat Reidy (086 8130066)
- Triona Coppinger (087 9776360)
Additional Non-Voting Committee Members:
- Josephine Gardiner (087 8520945)
- Pat Hannon (086 0633068)
Child/Youth Officers: (appointed subsequent to AGM)
- U9s: tbd
- U10s: Alison Finn
- U11s: Triona Coppinger
- U12s/13s/14s: Mary Porter
- U15s/older: Sarah Finnegan
And, I wish I was on the N17...
Well my wish came true in the form of the Tuam 8k road race on Sunday 14th of January. After the Christmas season this is just what you need to get a good start to the New year. Thankfully the day was dry and the howling winds had died down, a bit!!
Low-Rising Hills of Athenry
Having set a PB on the Athenry 10k course in 2005, I was looking forward all year to St Stephens Day 2006. It’s the closest race to home and a nice one to prevent overdoing the turkey and wine on Christmas Day/Night. Having spent the autumn however struggling with injuries, I wasn’t looking for a PB this time around – happy to complete it in a reasonable time. I ran the Port Tunnel race 2 weeks previously in just over 37 minutes and had only managed 1 training session since then – so anything in and around the 37 minutes would do. Initially I had planned to make it a family day with us all travelling down to Athenry but a few sick kids put paid to that idea and I travelled alone.
Scaling New Heights!
Craughwell Juveniles on Form in Galway Indoors
Juvenile athletes from the club descended in hordes to Nenagh for the Galway Indoor Track & Field Championships at the weekend where they claimed a staggering total of 43 gold, 41 silver and 30 bronze medals – almost half of the medals on offer at the competition.
Information on U9 to U12 Track and Field in 2007
Some of you may be aware that some changes were mooted last year regarding the U9-12 track and field competition at National level. Well the changes were recently communicated as follows.