Jane Ann - Up With The Longford Leaders

Jane-Ann Healy gives us her personal account of the Longford Half Marathon below, which took place last weekend. Congratulations on a great run Jane Ann.

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Summary of Race from Philip Magnier

Olive Loughnane - Congratulations

Olive Loughnane's monumental performance in last week's Olympic Women's 20KM Walk has somewhat flown under the radar when compared to the medal-winning performances of our boxers this past weekend.

Her 7th place finish (our best result in the track and field arena - Rob Heffernan was 8th in the equivalent men's event) around a rain-sodden Bird's Nest is the culmination of many years hard graft and personal disappointment at major championships.

The Golden Girls !

Better Late Than Never!

Sometimes a milestone in the club's development just passes by without any proper acknowlegement. One such milestone was passed last weekend when an Athenry AC women's team claimed their first team title in the County Galway 10k Championships. Ann Carter led the Athenry women to their first County title in these championships and in the process retained her own individual title. With the week that was in it, with Paul Hession's heroics in Beijing and some other eejit running around in circles in Germany, this major accomplishment nearly passed us by.

Westport Half-Marathon Set for September the 7th

Many runners in the West were dissapointed that the Louisburgh to Westport half-marathon didn't take place in August as usual this year - but fear not! The race is back on the calendar with a changed date and support from the Mayo Mountain Rescue Team (http://www.mayomrt.com/).

Full details of the rescheduled race can be found on their website and I've attached entry forms to this article in a couple of different formats.

This is a great race and raises funds for a great cause.

Well done Paul!

Paul Hession narrowly failed to make the final of the Olympic Games 200m.

While he said he had mixed motions in a post-race interview, when the dust settles he will surely realise that he has stepped up to another level, and is now part of the World sprinting elite.

Well done Paul - onwards and upwards!

9 in the final? Alan - you're losing it...

At the Huntsman yesterday, I was telling anybody who would listen [including anybody listening to Galway Bay FM!] that 9 men would be in the 200m final.

We watched the second semi to see in Pauls time of 20:38 would be quicker than the 5th place runner in that semi.
As it turn out it wasn't.

But just to prove that I wasn't completely making it up.
http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/INF/AT/C51A/ATM002201.shtml#ATM002201

Screen shot also attached!

Claregalway 10KM Results

Bernie Kelly cleaning up again!

Full results from the Claregalway 10KM are attached herein!

A record attendance of over 200 lined up. Just think of the crowd there would have been except for the utterly deplorable weather that afternoon, and more importantly, during the race itself.

A goodly number of PBs were recorded nonetheless.

Many thanks to the organising committee in Clare River Harriers for the race and the many refreshments afterwards.

Paul Hession Goes For Glory!

Another Update!

He's through! Paul won his second round heat in some style posting 20.32.

We'll be back to the Huntsman to roar him on!
Dan's bar and Ray Glynn's bar in Athenry will the place to be from 2pm!

Paul has a good draw and the easier[!] of the semis .
[Not that it will be easy at all!]

19 August 2008 - 14:25
2 Jared Connaughton CAN 20.34 20.34
3 Christian Malcolm GBR 20.30 20.08
4 Walter Dix USA 19.86 19.69
5 Paul Hession IRL 20.32 20.30
6 Brian Dzingai ZIM 20.17 20.12
7 Churandy Martina AHO 20.17 20.17
8 Kristof Beyens BEL 20.45 20.44