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Month: September 2015

Craughwell AC Smashes Irish 12-Hour Relay Record!

Craughwell AC Smashes Irish 12-Hour Relay Record!

Galway Speeders with Galway Hurling Captain and Jigsaw Ambassador David Collinsat the Craughwell AC Guinness World Record Relay Attempt There isn’t a word in the dictionary to describe how well everything went on Saturday and a huge congratulations to our very special coaches and committee and athletes who put in such efforts in the weeks leading up to the event and on the day … a long long day but amazingly the place was still buzzing at 9.40pm when the…

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Parking Arrangements for Tomorrow

Parking Arrangements for Tomorrow

As Dangan is host to a number of big events tomorrow, can people use 1 of two car-parks which have been allocated to our event. We are not allowed park in any of the other car parks. We would like to encourage people to use a) below if possible, particularly if staying for an hour or more. The carpark in b) will get quite congested. a) Parking at the rear of the Dangan rubgy pitches (entry via Corrib Village, i.e….

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Guinness World Record

Guinness World Record

Book your slots for this Saturday for free online at:- http://www.eventbrite.ie/e/guinness-world-record-12-hour-relay-active-and-heathy-physical-and-mental-wellbeing-tickets-18557026566?aff=ehomesaved

2015 Galway Cross Country Championships

2015 Galway Cross Country Championships

2015 Galway Cross Country Championships 4th October, Tuam – Palace Grounds The 2015 Galway Cross Country Championships will take place on October 4th at the Palace Grounds in Tuam. The 2014 Championships saw a great turnout from the club which we hope to repeat this year. Craughwell took 2nd place in both the Senior Mens and Womens categories coupled with some outstanding individual performances on the day. Craughwell AC Mens Team 2014 Galway Cross Country Championships

Great Day at Primary Schools XC Semis

Great Day at Primary Schools XC Semis

Well done to all who took part today in the primary school cross country semi-finals. We got lucky with the weather! Provisional results are below.   2015GalwayPrimarySchoolsXCSemiFinalResults_Provisional.pdf Well done especially to all our local schools and club members on some wonderful performances. Updated results with minor corrections are at. Note that all schools impacted by the corrections are already aware of them – so if you think you have qualified based on the prvovisional results, there is no change to…

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Athlone Half Marathon by Katie Gorman.

Athlone Half Marathon by Katie Gorman.

Race report of the Athlone Flatlineby Katie GormanThe sun was shining, there wasn’t a cloud in the sky, as last Saturday morning Geraldine Farrelly, Irene Fallon and myself set off from the usual meeting point at the hall to complete the Athlone Flatline half marathon. It was sort of a last minute decision, and so we had not trained as well as we might in the past, and so had no huge expectations ( although we always try to convince…

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Club Trip to Scottish Indoors 2016

Club Trip to Scottish Indoors 2016

Dust down the passports and start saving the euros – for the club are hopefully heading off to Glasgow again next February for what has become almost an annual event. In the next month or so, Scottish Athletics will decide on the date for the Scottish Indoors 2016. It will most likely be in the middle of February, hopefully just after the mock exams in secondary school. Last year we had a fantastic weekend over there, thoroughly enjoyed by the group…

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Athlone half marathon.

Athlone half marathon.

The Athlone half marathon took place yesterday at St. Aloysius college Athlone. Known as the ‘flatline’ with a total elevation gain of just 79 metres it’s a great race for PB’s.  Craughwell AC had some great results from yesterday Tom Tuohy first home with a time of 1.33. Geraldine Farrelly had a great run with a new PB with 1:44:26 on the clock, well done Geraldine. Rena Deely came in with a time of 1:48:07 Katie Gorman next with 1:48:24,…

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