Craughwell Athletic Club

This year’s National Senior and Even Ages Cross Country Championship unusually took place in the remote and beautiful Downings peninsula, Donegal.  A large contingent of Craughwell AC athletes made the lengthy trek and delivered amazing performances.  The weather was cold but mostly dry and the course was an excellent, undulating cross country course with plenty of technical hills and turns – very little mud but still enough to take shoes from top contenders in all races. For those unable to…

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The Connacht Even-ages and Senior Cross Country Championship took place in Drumshanbo, Co.Leitrim. Set in a spectacular setting, the course was perhaps the most challenging in recent memory. It consisted of a short 1 km loop dominated by a long steep hill which reduced many contestants to a crawl and some to walking.  Fuelled by the rain of recent weeks, the entirety of the loop was soon covered in thick mud – if you came in search of a challenge…

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The AAI Autumn Open Cross Country festival is the first major National Cross Country event of the year. Though national medals are not awarded, this popular event is an opportunity for top-class racing against the best in Ireland and abroad for significant prize-money and to see where people stand for the National Cross country a month later.  In addition, the Masters race is a selection race for the prestigious five-nations British and Irish Masters Cross country in early November.   In…

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On Sunday the weather turned out exceptional in Loughrea for the Galway Senior and Even Age Cross Country.  William Fitzgerald has had a year to forget with injury but won his second Galway Cross Senior Title in a row  William settled in the pack for the first few kilometres and switched to another gear on the 4th before settling again to a comfortable win, always in control. Mark Davis was second man home for Craughwell in 9th followed by Mark…

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Cross Country season continued apace this week with the Galway Primary Schools Cross Country final in Renmore on Tuesday and the Galway Even-ages Championship in Bushfield Loughrea on Tuesday. In Renmore there were some fantastic results for Craughwell AC Athletes representing their schools.  Alan Hallinan once again stole the show with an outstanding win in the 5th and 6th class boys final.  Alan led his Craughwell N.S. team of Darragh O’Donnel, Sean Colleran and Zach Keane to a marvellous first…

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Cross-county season kicked off with a bang in Castlegar on Saturday for the annual Castlegar Open Cross country.  The race continues to grow from strength to strength and the weather on Saturday made it another superb festival of Athletics.  The course was slightly changed from previous years, with the steeper back hill replaced with more of a long undulating drag.  The racecourse in Ballybrit provided a perfect but challenging route with really not much respite on each of the 2km…

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