Athenry Athletic Club

Valerie Glavin is our 2009 Club Person of the Year, winning out over Mick Rice and Maeve Noone.
 
Val is a worthy winner, having competed in several long-distance runs over the year, including the Connemara Ultra, the Paris, Belfast, and New York marathons, and the Connemara 100. She participated in 28 runs, a low total of runs compared to some years but, come on, how many 5k's are there in a 100-mile run? (Thirty three I make it, Mr A.B).
 

James Geraghty, MD of Molloys Pharmacy Group www.molloyspharmacy.com gave a presentation to a recent AAI Cross Country workshop in Galway on the nutritional need of athletes. The contribution to the workshop by James was very well recieved by those in attendance.

 Attention club athletes: Do you have Pain on the outside of your knee when running?

Have you been told you have Iliotibial Band Syndrome or “Runners knee”?

• Are you over eighteen and would you like to take part in a study to help develop a better understanding of Iliotibial Band syndrome?
• Are you interested in injury prevention? If so, I am looking for both injured and non-injured athletes to participate in a study examining the contributing factors in Iliotibial Band Syndrome.

Dungarvan Overall Finish      
January 31, 2010      
Results by Colbert Timing. e-mail:descol30@hotmail.com      
      
Place First Name Last Name Bib No Time Pace Age Group
1 Sandis Bralitis 423 50:57  5:06/M SM
2 Raivis Zakis 1136 53:07  5:19/M SM
3 Colin Merritt 573 53:09  5:19/M SM

Well I guess when you have a hard training session done, its nice to have a mid afternoon nap.

Pic spotted on an AAI press release.
http://www.athleticsireland.ie/content/?p=11627

I think I got nearly everyone from Athenry AC who participated on the day. There are a lot of photos, but who am I to omit our friends from Craughwell and GCH?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pmagnier/sets/72157623164885133/show/

Photo: John O'Connor

Our warmest congratulations go to Claire McNamara who came out on top in the National Senior Indoor Combined Events competition in Nenagh on Saturday last.  The Senior, Junior and Masters Combined Events titles were competed for on the same day and Rachel Finnegan from Craughwell made it a double for the 'Galway Girls' in taking the junior title.

Please find attached a PDF (1.51MB) of the race booklet which was available to all interested parties at the race yesterday for free.

James.

P.S. All previous booklets are stored in the following locations:

http://www.athenryac.com/2008-race-booklet

http://www.athenryac.com/2007-fields-athenry-10km-race-programme-available-download

Photo Credit: Daniel Kowalczyk

As usual the Athenry AC Juvenile section organised a fun run for those not yet old enough to take on the challenge of 10km on the roads around Athenry. This is always one of the most enjoyable parts of the day for organisers, spectators and, hopefully, the participants themselves.

Whilst this is not a competitive event the following is a list of finishers. Congratulations to all the children who took part and in particular to Alanna Lally who was first home.

Darren from www.racepix.com has been in touch to let us know that there are some pictures of yasterday's 10km race on that site. They're taken by Galway based Polish photographer Daniel Kowalczyk.

We hope to be able to provide many more photographs of the action, as taken by our usual loyal crew of snappers, as they become available, but Daniel's contribution is also most welcome.

You can view the photographs at:

http://www.racepix.com/Fields-Athenry-10km/racephotos/141/