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.
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
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
Marie Curran was in town on New Year's Eve to witness the final leg of Paul Fallon's thousand mile running journey to raise funds for On the Road Again, a charity set up to help the homeless through getting people running:
Renmore Church at 3pm on New Years Eve was a hub of activity as a group of people eagerly awaited Paul Fallon's arrival. He was on the final leg of his incredible journey, which started on December 1st in Dublin and New Years Eve was to be the final day of his 1000 miles of running for the homeless.
Following Paul's progress around the country this month at http://www.otra.ie .
Mullins issues apology over how closure of Belfield track was handled
http://www.independent.ie/sport/horse-racing/mullins-issues-apology-over...
"Leo Varadkar’s casual trotting out of his road-running bona fides"
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/sport/2011/1203/1224308524742.html
It was standing room only in the Raheen woods hotel last night, as a large crowd gathered to celebrate the launch of Mick Rice's book on the history of Derrydonnell AC.
MC Frank Greally of Irish runner introduced and interviewed a number people with connections to the club and athletics in Ireland.
This included current president of Athletics Ireland, Liam Hennessy.
Present on the night were many of the Derrydonnell legends, including Willie Morris and Tommy Madden.
Update - you can now buy the book online.
Plagiarised directly from the horse's mouth! The RunIreland website - in which three of our members - Ray O'Connor, Seb Locteau and Alan Burke are instrumental - recently won an award for their website:
Galway owned website, RunIreland.com was last night presented with a prestigious Eircom Spider Award by Dara O'Briain in the Convention Centre, Dublin. The Eircom Spiders Awards is an annual event honouring Irish individuals and organisations for their outstanding achievements online and are considered an important benchmark for distinction and merit in web-based business strategies.
This December Paul Fallon will be running 1000 miles around Ireland to try to raise funds for the homeless charity which he started back in January, On The Road Again (OTRA).
The target is to try to raise €100,000 for OTRA (www.otra.ie)
To help the team reach this goal, they are holding events in 8 cities and towns around Ireland during the run.
The goal is to get 1000 people to sign up on the website, and for each person to try to raise €100.
Paul says:
Press Release
Irish 200m Record Holder and Olympian Paul Hession (Athenry AC), has today announced that he will be moving from his current training base in Scotland to Dublin, to work with Coach John Coghlan.
Coghlan gained his coaching expertise while working alongside leading speed coaches Loren Seagrave and Paul Doyle in Atlanta; he has a degree in Sports Science from the University of Limerick. Hession will join the talented sprinter Stephen Colvert who is a member of Coghlan's training group.
The Galway Ladies team did very well to finish in 6th place in the Premier Division of the National League on August 20th last at Santry Stadium.
The GCH men finished 2nd in Division One and are now promoted to Premier Division for 2012.
See:
They say imitation is the best form of flattery. With that in mind, the inaugural Roscommon 5k Series will kick off in County Roscommon on August 31st. This event involves a series of 5km runs on four consecutive Wednesday evenings commencing August 31st.
Morton Mile - http://www.clonliffeharriers.com/ch_news_item.shtml?cmsitemnumber=_13102...
Ciaran O`Lionaird 3:57.99 & Paul Robinson 3:59.99
Results - http://www.clonliffeharriers.com/ch_news_item.shtml?cmsitemnumber=_13102...
Morton Mile
1. Jordan McNamara – USA – 3.56.83
2. Brandon Bethke – USA – 3.57.34
3. Ciaran O’Lionaird – Leevale AC – 3.57.99
4. James Kaan – AUS – 3.58.19
5. Craig Miller – USA – 3.58..41
6. Jack Bolas – USA – 3.58.75
7. Paul Robinson – St. Cocas – 3.59.99
8. Sean Connolly – Tallaght – 4.00.14
9. John Coghlan – MSB – 4.00.79
