Read on for details of a deserving charity who are in their 2nd year of running their race in our neighbouring parish of St. Thomas's. The race organisers ran a very successful event last year which was well received by all the participants. This year they are hoping to make it even bigger and better and are arranging hot food at the end of the race and a medal of acheivement to all who take part. Read on for the…
The busy city centre streets of Galway was the venue for a festival of running at the weekend, with the inaugural Galway City Marathon talking place on Sunday. The event was preceded on Saturday evening by an Open Mile and an Elite Mile. Peadar Harvey had a magnificent victory in the Open Mile, just beating GCH's Keith Fallon in a sprint finish with Peter O'Sullivan finishing strongly in 3rd place to put 2 Craughwell AC runners on the winners podium – fine performances…
Welcome back everyone and hope you enjoyed the summer holidays! Whether you are preparing for the indoor athletics season or running the cross country season or just starting into the sport, Craughwell astroturf is the place to be from next week onwards. If you're already a member, you're familar with the scene. If you haven't done it in a while, get back into training now … its a great time to start again as school commences. And if you're…
This is an old video but new to me. Check out the fighting spirit of these two ladies as they sprint for the finish of the marathon section of an ironman. Inspiring but also one of the funniest things I’ve seen in a long time.
Registration: (if not aleady registered) Tuesday August 31st, 7.30pm-8.30pm, behind Craughwell school. All beginners welcome. First night training: Tuesday September 7th, 8.45pm, behind Craughwell school Looking forward to seeing everyone
Athletes from Craughwell AC had a highly successful weekend at the National Finals of the Community Games in Athlone last weekend with 11 athletes in action, four of whom brought home silverware. Emma Byrne had a super performance in the U13 girls 900m race walk to take 4th place while Shane Finn was unlucky not to make the final of the boys event with a 6th place finish in the semi-final. This was Galway’s first time…
The final week of Craughwell AC’s Fit4fun Summer Camp took place earlier this month at the astroturf where 64 children took part in a wide range of athletics activities and other sports. The intermingling of coaching the athletic disciplines such as long jump and high jump with fun activity games proved to be highly successful and the feedback from parents and participants was extremely positive. This was the club’s first year organising the camps and the club would like…
It was a fantastic weekend weather-wise and the results were also great for Craughwell AC senior athletes. The Club made its annual trip to Claregalway on Saturday and were rewarded with Silver in the team category. The first 4 home of Peter O'Sullivan, Johnny Lane, Tommy and Justin Niland were rewarded with a Silver medal in the Galway team category. There were also great runs from the rest of the club athletes – there were a total of 20 Craughwell…
For Craughwell members planning to run this race, if you want to get your free t-shirt at the race, you need to entry online. Check out: http://www.runireland.com/events/2010-08-14/claregalway-10k-road-race-and-fun-runwalk Online entries close at 5pm on Friday. T-shirts are only been given to those that enter online. Please tell your running buddies!
The club are teaming up with a nationwide textile recycling service to help you get rid of your unwanted clothes and help us raise some much needed funds for a major new project that we will be commencing shortly – an indoor athletics training centre. So help us to help you to recycle which helps us to build this centre which helps you to stay healthy! And in the process we help the environment by reducing landfill! Here’s how…
