What a fantastic and special day the club had last Saturday at its second attempt to break the world record for a 12-hour relay. Running a relay continuously for 12 hours is a major undertaking and it was wonderful to see the huge effort from right across the club and the community to pull it off. We didn’t break the record unfortunately but we did break the fund-raising record for a 12-hour relay with close to €20,000 raised from the…
Only hours to go now for our world record relay attempt this Saturday on our very own 400m track !! Support us by joining us on the day – all welcome and all clubs from the local and surrounding areas are invited to come and help us out break the record .. we need all members, full teams from other clubs, full families, young and old, all running, jogging or walking a 100m leg of the relay to help us….
Westport House in Mayo was the venue for the Connacht Even Ages Cross Country. Though the sun blazed down, the course was muddy in spots and incredibly hilly and tough. It consisted of 1 km laps, each containing very steep hills and sharp descents. There were some brilliant performances from the travelling Craughwell AC Athletes as usual. Probably the best result of the day came from our u14 boys team who won Gold in the 3km in impressive fashion…
On Sunday a crew of Craughwell AC Athletes made the trek to Abbotstown in Dublin to compete in the Autumn Open Cross Country Championships. The first event of the day was the inaugural senior Mixed 4x1500m relay which involved two men and two women running an any order the team desired. The first two teams qualified for the European Club Competion in Portugal so the competition was fierce. Since we could run in any order we wanted there wa sa…
On Thursday the Schools Action continued, this time with the Secondary Schools Combined Events finals in Athlone. Siofra Davis and Leonore Church of Presentation College Athenry came 2nd and 3rd in the Senior Girls competition with Siofra winning Long-Jump and Shot Put and Leonore winning the 800m. Claudia Coyle delivered a super performance in the Minor Girls to come 5th with a dominant win in the 800m with Aisling Lavan in 10th. Oisin O’Donovan of St. Brigids Looughrea won a…
(thanks to Laura Murray for sending in this report!) The Connacht Primary Schools Cross Country finals took place in a fairly wet and mucky Tuam Demense last Tuesday and there were some outstanding performances from Craughwell AC Athletes. First up was the 5th/6th Class Boys which was a fast and tough race. Conor Mannion ran superbly for Craughwell NS finishing in 15th position! The next race was 5th/6th class girls which was equally as gruelling and we saw great runs…
