I don’t write many race reports, so please bear with me if this one is a little long winded and starts too early in proceedings, but it’s more to help me remember events than for your enjoyment. Connemara is more event than race, so this is really an "event" report. For weeks I had been checking on the weather forecast, and things looked grim. As the days passed, the predicted Sunday wind was adjusted up from 5mph to 14 mph,…
The Club will be launching their first ever Yearbook, covering the year 2005 and the club’s history, on Thursday April 6th at 7.30pm in St. Michael’s Hall in Craughwell. The Yearbook is packed with interesting articles and dozens of photographs of the club’s athletes. The launch is open to the public and the Yearbook will be an interesting read for club members, parents and the local community. The Yearbook will be on sale on the night and later through local…
The National Juvenile Indoor Track & Field 2006 may well prove to be a watershed in the club's history. Never before had the club so many athletes taking part in the National Indoor finals and never before did we enjoy such success. This success is not just about medals won, but also the many fine performances by several of our athletes in making finals or finishing in top 5 or 6 in their event.
There were some outstanding performances from Craughwell AC athletes at the weekend taking home 2 gold and 4 silver from the National Juvenile Indoor Track and Field in Nenagh and taking 3rd place in the prestigious Connemara Half-Marathon on Sunday. Mark Davis, Tony Nevin and Tony Fitzpatrick were the club’s representatives in the half-marathon and Mark ran a stormer to take 3rd place in a time of 1:22 in very difficult weather conditions. In Nenagh, Saturday’s competition saw Paul McGill…
We have a sizeable contingent of athletes travelling to Nenagh for the juvenile indoor championships on 25/26 March and 1/2 April.. Please contact Michael Tobin if transport needed on any of the dates. There likely will be a bus travelling on the day of the relays on 2 April – but cars will be the mode of transport for other days. The following are the athletes who have qualified for the finals and the times of their events. Relay teams are…
When we planned the dates fo the series , in our efforts to avoid clashes with other AAI or road races we forgot to check for some more usual "event" dates. Specifically we forgot about Easter sunday. So the first race has beeen switched from Sunday the 16th of April to Saturday 15th of April. Details on the series are in the post below. If you are interested in participating in this fun event please contact Mark (mark@craughwellac.com) or Michael…
Cheltenham might be over, but the racing continues!! The Senior Club has set the dates for its inaugural handicap series. The series will be a set of four measured and timed 10K handicap runs, which will lead up nicely to the Flora Womens Mini-Marathon. 10K is roughly 6.2 Miles which is about 1:30 walk. We welcome walkers to participate, and runners of all levels. The general rules are as follows:
Unless you’ve been living in a cave, you will have heard that Derval O’Rourke smashed pb’s, national records and all expectations in 7.84 exhillerating seconds in Moscow on Saturday. A fantastic achievement for her – Ireland’s only ever sprint world champion. Looking at the race, you could be forgiven for thinking that she had come 4th, so tight was the finish, but the camera doesn’t lie and she beat off the competition on the dip. Well done Derval from all…
We all know the feeling. You are running in a race, and all is going pretty well though you can feel that you are pushing it. Suddenly the familiar cramp sets in. Somewhere around your right ribcage starts to scream at you and you need to ease up. A stitch. Dammit. But what is a stitch? We tend to use the term all the time but it seems the stitch is in the realm of the hiccup in that it’s…
In frosty Moscow, Ireland’s finest indoor athletes are competing today against the best in the world. We have fielded a good team, but we will be doing very well to come home with a medal out of this championship. Despite losing out on his lottery funding, Tullamore man James Nolan seems to have really knuckled down since the Olympics (maybe Jerry Keirnan’s criticism was a motivator). He will be one to watch, posting superb times this year including a 3K of 7:52…
