Craughwell Athletic Club

The evenings are drawing in, the kids are going back to school – time for resumption of the Craughwell AC circuit training.  The 12 week program will be resuming on Monday 21st of September 2009 and will take us right through to Christmas. The Circuit training sessions are a fun and social way to achieve a good level of general fitness and the Craughwell AC sessions have been very popular over the years.  See you there! If you've already paid your Craughwell AC fit4life…

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In line with the new IAAF coaching guidelines, we're going to confiscate all members mobile phones for 3 weeks to help improve performance!!! Tony Nevin will collect them from all the fit4life members next Thursday and I will collect them from the juvenile club . Check out the benefit below!  http://www.iaaf.org/GLE09/news/newsid=54129.html "Various World champions from Berlin have revealed the critical factors in their success but only Bahrain's 1500m champion Youssef Saad Kamel has said that his victory was down to…

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Olive Homecoming – Sunday 1:00PMLocal hero (or is it heroine?) Olive Loughnane will be coming home to Loughrea on Sunday at 1:00 PM.  Olive was our top performer in the World Championships in Berlin with a stunning Silver in an incredibly gritty performance.  With this she joined an elite group of 4 who have come home from the world athletics championships with "metal" around their neck. A few of us from the club were over in Berlin for the championships…

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Incredible news again from Loughrea's Olive Loughnane who sensationally broke away from the Chinese athlete to take a remarkable Silver in Berlin with a season's best performance of 1:28:58.  Olive was Ireland's best performer in Beijing and this is a super high point of her career.  She is a class act.  Congratulations to her, to her family (including her Craughwell AC sister Anne) and also to Loughrea AC from all in Craughwell.  I know TJ and co are out in…

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On a perfect evening for running there was more success for Craughwell.  I wasn't there and haven't the exact results yet but Martin and Johnny were in the individual prizes and also the team received a prize for I believe second place close behind a strong GCH team.  Well done all. Martin, Johnny, Paddy and Tom take a team prize Thanks to Adrian Fitzmaurice of Athenry who thoughtfully sent me the pictures. Results attached here.  

Best of luck to all of the Irish athletes competing in the World Championships in Berlin, which starts today and in particular to Galway's Olive Loughnane and Paul Hession. Both athletes have been in super form in recent months and hopefully will achieve their dreams at the World Championships. A full list of the Irish athletes in action is available on the Athletics Ireland website. Full details on all events and live results are at www.iaaf.org. We might even have…

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  In sublime conditions we had an amazing turnout of 49 Craughwell athletes taking part in Galway's premier road race.  Well done to each and every one of you that took part.  PB's about all over the field as the wind at your backs on the prom made the traditionally tricky home straight a dream. Full results are here.  Little needs to be said about the winner of the race here as it's been covered elsewhere – it was an…

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