Janet joined the club in January 2010 and soon established herself as a regular on the Saturday morning 9 o'clock run. Soon after, it seemed anyway, she teamed up with Maeve Noone and Deirdre Quinn to form the triumphirate of gals (and gels) who are one of the bedrocks of training in our club.
A beautiful spring day in Gort, with not too much wind but almost too much sun for photographers at the finish line, greeted runners in the inaugural Gorgeous Gort 4M Road Race by South Galway AC this afternoon, Sunday 19 February .
The 2012 road racing season really starts in earnest in Galway this weekend with the Maree road race. It is quickly following by a slew of other races, almost one a weekend, until mid-April, from 5KM right the way up to 39M...and most distances in-between.
In response to lots of demand for a core/ conditioning and strength class, the 2012 spring club class will start on Monday 6th February.
We are lucky to have booked Tom French, an approved trainer with Athletics Ireland, and owner of French Vanoli Fitness in Oranmore, who is already doing some strength work with our junior club:
http://www.frenchvanoli.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcatego...
The cost is €70 for 10 weeks
Location: Fitness Centre, Raheen Business Park, Athenry
Mondays 6:30pm - 7:30pm (10 weeks - Feb. 6th to April 9th).
Want to get faster? Fitter? Injury free? Lighter? Inspired to greater things this season? This year Athenry AC is hosting a series of talks aimed at runners from casual to high performance, to help you prepare for the best season ever.
The talks will take place in the Raheen Woods hotel on the below dates, and promise to be both informative and entertaining.
Official race result plus all prize winners are attached in the usual formats (PDF, DOC, XLS, TXT).
Race Images are available from the following locations:
http://www.athenryac.com/gallery - AR and DNC
http://www.racepix.com/Fields-Of-Athenry/pictures/638/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157628575384797/ - Peter Mooney
A great day for running meant that the Tuam 8k on Sunday Jan 15th had a record 630 entrants. They experienced a perfect racing day with cool, dry weather. Most people seemed pleased with the new one-loop course also, with the last 3k or so along the Athenry to Tuam road.
Gerry Duffy Deca Ironman is coming West to inspire, motivate and energise the people of Galway
To mark the establishment of City Life Galway, a new Financial Planning Company in the city, set up by the well known Financial Advisor and keen athlete Pat O Dwyer, a very special talk by Ireland’s Deca Ironman Gerry Duffy entitled “Succeeding Against The Odds” will take place in the Salthill Hotel on Thurs 26th Jan commencing at 7.30pm
Please find attached a PDF (1.51MB) of the race booklet which was available at the race for free.
James.
P.S. All previous booklets are stored in the following locations:
A great turnout for the Juvenile 1KM race before the main event on last St. Stephen's Day.
A list of the finishers is below.
1 Brandon Lee 35 Alisha Noone 69 Kate Hurley
2 Mathew Treacy 36 Luke Burke 70 Catherine Gorman
3 Shannon Lee 37 cathal Lally 71 Maria Gorman
4 Dean Treacy 38 Carla Noone
5 Mikey Burke 39 Hazel Bichard
6 Tiernan Burke 40 Saibhe Eagan
7 Niamh Conerney 41 Colin Noone
8 Fionn Conerney 42 Sinead Lyons
9 Michael Rice 43 Shean Guiry
10 Christian Mullen 44 Anneka O'Donnell
11 Fabien Mangan 45 Leah Joyce
Over forty Juvenile Athletes aged from under 10 upwards travelled to Nenagh last Saturday to take part in the Galway County Track and Field indoors. There were some fantastic performances from all the athletes. Athenry Juvenile club took home 12 Gold 12 Silver and 16 bronze medals full results attached.
T'was Christmas morning at 7:45am and all through the house not a creature was stirring, except for a runner. I crept down the stairs, and nearly twisted my ankle when I missed the last step – not a good start! I bypassed the Christmas tree, and the presents, and headed for the kitchen to make a festive bowl of porridge. I hadn't been up so early on Christmas day for years!
A piece of running travelogue from my recent trip to Vietnam...
Deirdre
Here's stuff to ponder as you do your long runs. Add your own as a comment or send it on to me, philipmagnier@gmail.com.
"Great is the victory, but the friendship of all is greater"
Emil Zatopek (pictured)
Greatest long-distance runner of the 1950s
"Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but a cabbage with a college education."
Mark Twain
"Always use lots of vaseline"
"When you feel good - go like hell - there's going to be plenty of days
