Jarlath Cloonan has done an excellent job of Joe Keating's camera work from the 2006 (not last year's) race.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oF4P4j8_D4w

Here (at last!) are the Official Race results.

We had an unbelievable 617 finishers on St. Stephen's Day. To put this in context we had 69 finishers at the inaugural race in 2002 and 171, 254, 351 and 470 finishers in subsequent years. We're still very much growing!

Congratulations to each and every participant who picked up a hat and passed under the 800 year old finish line.

Both male and female Team prizes were claimed by our friends in Galway City Harriers, although the men's team result was hotly contested by Mayo AC.

Please find attached a PDF copy of the Race Programme distributed
to all pre-entries on the day and to many who rocked up on the
morning itself. A very limited number of harcopies are still
available if you want your own piece of history :). Just let me
know...

A sincere thanks must go to Johnny O'Connor of Proactive on a
fantastic job laying the content out and for dealing in a patient
yet professional manner with the many-times-almost-unreasonable
editor.

Race Finish:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5475768627675186665

(47 minutes)

Race Start:

All I can say is that I know that feeling of almost getting there, Tony, having run 40:09, 40:18 and 40:22 in my time!

http://www.craughwellac.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=21...

Here are the Provisional Results for the 2007 Fields of Athenry 10k

You will see that the result sheets are not completely clean at this stage, but it is time to get a provisional posting up on the website. If you spot any errors please do let me know by posting a comment here or by e-mailing me at peter.delmer@bsci.com.

You will notice that there are no team results yet, as I have one issue to resolve before posting.

Please note also that all prizes have not yet been issued. We will post outstanding prizes as soon as possible.

Hope you all had a great run!

Photographs courtesy of Andew Talbot

The members of Athenry AC who organise the Fields of Athenry Road Race don’t really have a chance to relax each Christmas until their 10k Race is over. Pulling together all of the elements that make this race happen is such a monumental task that each year we wonder if we can manage it within the resources we have at our disposal. Thankfully we seem to surprise ourselves each and every time.

The very first running of the Fields of Athenry 1Km Juvenile Fun Run took place in advance of the Senior 10Km road race yesterday the 26th of December. There were almost one hundred young athletes taking part and they were led home by Linda Porter of Craughwell Athletics Club. There was a great atmosphere at this fun event with all age groups and Standards taking part together on the same course at the same time.

In almost perfect weather conditions, Gary Thornton and Orla Ni Mhuircheartaigh capped off successful years by taking victory at this year's Fields of Athenry 10km.

Almost 700 participants took to the roads and streets of Athenry, in the 6th running of the race.
For the first time, a juvenille fun run around the streets of Athenry was also held.
Full report to follow.
Some photos here, with many, many more to follow over the next week or so.

Online entries are now closed for this year's Fields of Athenry 10k Road Race. We will still accept some entries on race morning but as the number of pre-registered participants is far in excess of what we had expected the number of late entries has to be limited so that we can keep the numbers participating at a safe and managable level. In order to allow us to process late entries as speedily as possible and to avoid dissapointment please attend race registration no later than 10:00am on the day of the race.