All Fit4Life sessions cancelled for this week!
Sorry for any inconvenience ,we are cancelling All Fit4Life sessions for this week due to ongoing severe weather conditions.
North Pole Cross Country
With fresh memories of last year’s debacle in Coleraine still festering like open wounds in people’s minds, the choice of Derry as the venue for yesterday’s National cross country was not a very popular one. Most clubs would have preferred a central venue which would have required a day-trip of 2 to 2.5 hours rather than a venue at an extremity of the country which requires an overnight stay. Still, the view was that it would be organised perfectly…
Craughwell 10 March 20th 2011
Put it in your diaries,
Best of luck to all our athletes in Derry!
The very best of luck to all of our athletes who are competing in the first day of the National Cross Country in Derry on Sunday, including: – our U12 boys team– individual girls and boys on the Galway/Connacht teams in the U12 girls, U14 girls and U16 boys age groups– our senior/novice men and women on the Galway teams I've put directions to the venue in the attached document. Its approximately a 4-hour journey. http://www.craughwellac.com/images/stories/2010/xcountry/directionscraughwell2granshaderry.pdf
Injury prevention and stretching
Parents and juvenile athletes will be interested in the attached presentation which Jane Ann Healy presented to coaches, parents and juvenile athletes in Craughwell recently. Jane Ann is Athletics Ireland's chartered physio in the Galway area for their elite athletes and is based in Oranmore. The presentation consisted of a short talk on injury prevention followed by about a 40 minute practical session of warmup routines and stretching. It was an excellent session and one we hope to…
Cumann na mBunscol Cross Country Sees Exceptional Peformances
The club had many athletes in action at the Cumann na mBunscoil cross country races today which were held in Renmore. It was a very successful day again for Oranmore Boys School and Craughwell NS. I don’t have full details of individual athletes placings but will include what I know here. Apologies if you are not included – I don’t have the full information. The races kicked off with the junior girls 800m where Craughwell had a good girls team…
Date Changed for Kilcornan 10K
Event date & time: Sun, 2010-11-21 12:30 Location: Kilcornan, Clarinbridge The 2nd annual Clarinbridge 10Km Road Race will take place at 12.30pm on Sunday, 5th DECEMBER 2010. All monies raised are in aid of the IHPCT Lourdes Fund 2011. The IHPCT travel to Lourdes every year with children with special needs and over €2900 was raised at last years race. The race starts and finishes at Brothers of Charity Services, Kilrornan, Clarinbridge and is run over a mixture of road…
Veni Vidi Vici!!
In the words of Caesar, we came we saw we conquered!! Craughwell AC had probably its best ever day at day 2 of the Connacht cross-country championships with team victories in the U11 boys, U13 boys, U15 boys and U17 boys and our girls teams battling hard but finishing outside the medals (not to mention taking the U19 boys and U15 boys individual Connacht titles, silver in the U15 boys, U13 boys and U11 boys, and bronze…
Craughwell ACs Ladies Make History!
It was a doubly historic day for the club today at the Connacht Novice Cross-Country Championships in Roscommon, where Craughwell AC not only fielded a women’s cross country team for the first time ever but went on to win the Connacht Novice Cross Country title led home by Maeve Curley. With Galway washed out for the day, luckily our neighbours in Roscommon organised a slightly better day on this course dubbed as “paradise” by St. Ronan’s stalwart Pat Fitzgibbon. Maeve…
Galwegians lead Ireland to glory!!
A very brief newsflash on the fantastic performances of Galway senior athletes in the International Masters cross country in Santry today. The race features teams from England, Scotland, Ireland, Northern Ireland and Wales, with teams in each age category M35, M40, M45 etc.. Craughwell AC had the honour of two of its senior squad representing the country, with Gerry Ryan in the M45 category and Peter O'Sullivan in the M35 category, while Athenry AC's seasoned senior international Paul McNamara…