Last Saturday the Clare Burren Marathon Challenge took place in Ballyvaughan. Cepta Daley & myself headed off to undertake the challenge & boy was it a challenge!The temperature had already hit the 20’s when we arrived at 8am.We knew it was going to be a hot one and no PB’s would be run today. There were nearly
Craughwell AC are looking to put forward a men’s team onto this year’s national Track & field league. This will be a first for the club so to kick start our campaign we have arranged a Squad training day in Danagn this Saturday 29th May from 4.30pm – 6.30pm to give the opportunity to try your hands at T&F events. Training and practice will also be available for jumps & throws. This will be also be a good speed session…
After a gap of 15 years, Loughrea is to have its own cycling club, with the first registration of members to take place on Monday. Seven Springs will be the title of the Loughrea-based club, but
No 5 over and all again went well ,the results are on this link well done to Barry and all involved in the set up ,Well don to all who took part! http://www.redtagtiming.com/results/Galway5kmSeries_Loughrea2010.pdf
A fund raising poker classic takes place this Friday night 28th May in Cawley’s lounge at 9.30pm to raise funds for Craughwell Community Games. Parents' support would be greatly appreciated – the community games is run on a tight budget and this event was last held 3 years ago. The entry fee is €30. If unable to attend but interested in making a contribution, please contact Nuala Fitzpatrick at 087 9830598. A few older teenagers might be interested…
Fun, fun, fun was the order of the day at the first leg of the Open Track & Field series in Lees Road Sports Complex, Ennis last Thursday night. The Clare AAI folks put on a wonderful buffet of events and made the visiting Galway team from Craughwell AC feel very welcome. Peadar Harvey helped himself to a good early season performance of 2:07 for the 800m followed by a win in the 100m and a storming performance in the…
The European Masters Athletics championships is on in Hungary this year from the 15th-25th of July. The close of entries is the end of next week (May-31th). http://www.evacs2010.hu/index.php?page=Cms_HomePage&event=init The entry procedure as far as I can tell is as follows: 1. Any athlete that wants to enter needs to join the Irish Masters Association (15 eu) 2. Each athlete needs to send their entry to the Irish Masters association along with 40 eu plus 15 eu for each event they…
Athlone IT were the hosts today for the finals of the Connacht Schools Track & Field. Weather conditions were almost perfect on the day, with no wind and almost no rain – an unusal experience at the schools track and field! Athlone IT must be the most progressive institution in the country in regard to athletics facilities. Its only a year or two since they completed their fine 400m track and last week they announced plans for an indoor…
Davis Is back ! Claregalway saw round 4 of the series and all went well once again ,Thanks to Andy and his team it went like clockwork as usual. Provisional Results: http://www.redtagtiming.com/results/Galway5kmSeries_Claregalway2010.pdf
Carramore 10k is the first event in the prestigous Mayo League and when Gerry Ryan toed the start line the result wasn't going to be in doubt. Unfortunately this year there was a very low turn out – the wealth of races on the calendar means that people aren't travelling to races as much as in the past. I was actually surprised to see the Moy Half Marathon getting approval for the same weekend as Carramore. I would have thought…
