Well its nearly over for another year, we have had a massive turnout for every race this year and have seen great efforts from all levels, elite to novice, week on week. Taking into account that six months ago many entrants would not have even attempted to run 1 kilometre let alone race 5 kilometres and further more 6 in a row, but run them they did. I think everyone came out all the better for doing them, bar one…
Fat4Life (actually BBQ food can be pretty healthy)
Well done to all who took part last night and a big thank you to Clare River Harriers for the seamless organisation making it a pleasure to compete. Craughwell Runner of the night goes to Justin Niland smashing his way into the sub 18 clubs with a time of 18:55, that is a massive milestone Justin many congratulations! Well done also to Mark Davis setting a new PB of 16:23, every second counts as they say! Fit4lifer of the night…
The Connacht Schools track and field championships were held yesterday in glorious weather conditions recently in Dangan. With second-level schools from all over Connacht represented, this is the highest level of competition available within Connacht to teenage athletes. Twenty athletes from the club had qualified for this championships and all competed with distinction. Eight of these athletes claimed Connacht titles:- – Cathriona Farrell (Athenry VS) in the Intermediate Girls High Jump, setting a new Connacht record of 1.70m – Kelly…
I knew from the outset that 2 marathons 4 weeks apart was not a clever idea. There was the worry that I would not have recovered enough from Connemara, but I still needed to be running long for Krakow! I took it easy the first week after Connemara and then went back to doing speed work and did a 16 miler the following week. I then tried to taper again.I had never been to Krakow, I had never been to…
While we are waiting for Johnny O’Connor to publish his pictures from Tuesday, take a look at these all-action pictures taken by Cian Walsh (Wally’s young lad). Not Bad! Thanks Cian!!! Peter powers home to a pb of 17:07
Series ID Forename AthTime TuaTime CraTime 67 Mark Davis 16:39 16:54 x 194 Johnny Lane 17:29 17:23 17:11 268 Tony Nevin 17:57 18:22 x 164 Patrick Holohan 18:00 x x 272 Justin Niland 18:40 18:39 18:20 369 Barry Phelan 19:37 19:34 15:00 273 Oliver Niland 22:14 22:30 22:25 368 Maura Egan 22:50 x 23:02 33 James Cannon 23:00 22:23 22:24 365 Johnny Nevin 23:07 23:58 23:32 125 Gabriel Gardiner 23:08 22:50 22:20 337 David Tierney 23:54 23:56 23:51 367 Kathleen…
May seems to be the new July in Ireland! In fantastic weather 312 athletes turned up to take us to the half way point in this years series. Conor Maloney ran excellently to break Brian O'Connor's grip on the winners spot. Conor finished in 16:18 and from the pictures along the way seems to have pushed it hard from the start to avoid having to deal with Brian's finishing kick. Timmy Glavey continued his improvement coming in 3rd ahead of Craughwell's…
The start and finish of the race (up to 30 minutes!) can be viewed here – if you can recognise a blurry version of yourself you will hear your finishing time. We have most of the finishing times compiled now and are just doing a final check before publishing it here and on Athenry AC’s website. Thanks a million to Lorraine Mullins for taking the whole video.
The club's progress in retaining athletes into their teenage years as they progress through secondary school was evident last week in Dangan where the Galway-Roscommon Schools track & field championships took place. The club had over 20 athletes in action, with many fine performances. The following were the results for club members, with the top 4 or top 6 in different events progressing to the Connacht finals which will be held this Wednesday:-
