With the Galway and Connacht Primary Schools cross-country coming up shortly again, following is a brief article from Craughwell NS involvement in the event. I don't have all the details for Ballymana NS and other schools, so apologies that the artcile is incomplete and only covers Craughwell NS.
Hi all – it’s been a long time coming – but just a quick reminder that the final race of the Craughwell 5k Series will be held next friday evening at 7:30pm. Dig out those numbers if you can find them, and come along. We will be working out the league positions and handing out prizes afterwards. There is still plenty of room for new arrivals though they won’t be in the league itself.. As with last year, we will…
A large contingent of juvenile athletes from the club was part of the County Galway track and field team that headed to Mosney for the weekend of National athletics finals. There were some fantastic performances across the board with 100% effort from everyone, some rewarded with medals, some disappointed to miss a medal after many weeks of training – but everyone involved can be proud that they gave it their best shot and if it didn’t end with the ultimate…
The annual County Galway 10 Road Racing Championships, held in Claregalway 10k was a huge success again this year, with over 180 people taking part. Craughwell one of the best ever results in our short time as a senior running club by taking the team title. Our first four of Martin Corcoran (3), Mark Davis (5), John Mannion (8) and Johnny Lane (10) did enough to secure the team title just ahead of a very strong Athenry team. (I…
Its been a remarkable 4 weeks for Cathriona Farrell as she travelled to Wales, then Antrim and then Sheffield for international high jump competitions. An earlier article details the success in Antrim and the compeition in Wales. All of these were eclipsed by the greatest achievement of Cathriona's athletics career to date when winning the English AAA U17 High Jump at the weekend in Sheffield.
After a day of solid rain, the skies cleared as Gerry Ryan proved his class once again in winning the 2007 streets of Galway, running away from a field containing some of the finest runners in the country. Ryan who is at least 43 and probably tending towards 44 years old came home 8 seconds clear of Kilkenny's Brian Maher with most people's pre-race favourite national 10k track champion Gary Thornton close behind in third. I was running the race myself,…
Last Saturday at the Celtic Games international in Antrim, Cathriona Farrell jumped to an outdoor personal best of 1.70m to claim her first international title in the high jump.
2007 has already been an amazing year for Galway senior running – with more races and more participation than most people can remember for many years! To top it off, the county has had some great distance running success with Gary Thornton winning the national track 10k and the awesome Gerry Ryan winning the huge Irish Runner 5-miler in Phoenix park. Traditionally, the Galway running calendar only got going in August, and this month still has the premier events for…
