There will no juvenile training on the 29th of May at the soccer pitch due to the heavily planned athletic weekend ahead. Training will resume as normal next week.
We would like to wish good luck to all our competitors taking part in the schools athletics in Tullamore and also all those competing in the County Community Games in Ballinderreen. Hope ye all do well and don't forget the suncream!!!
If this isn't enough to make you jealous, I don't know what will.
Local photographer, runner and participant in the Galway 5km series Aonghas McMahon has emailed from sunny Mexico with the following greetings:
*** Slight Change in Starting Point - Instead of gathering at the carpark at the Village Inn in Kilchreest people should instead meet at Castledaly Church which is closeby - just to continue through the village of Kilchreest for another three miles 'til you see a church on left-hand side and that is Castledaly Church***.
Organiser Marguerite tell us that for runners it will be about a 10k run and the runners will know they have ran a good workout when they return to the Church.
Provisional results from the Loughrea 5km now available at http://www.athleticsloughrea.com/node/123
Another week and another great 5km race to enjoy. As someone said to me in Loughrea last night, "We don't realise how 'spoilt' road runners are in Galway". It certainly was a great night for running in balmy is slightly windy conditions. The organisation was once again superb as the experienced and dedicated Loughrea volunteers and officials provided another opportunity for runners and walkers to test temselves over a challenging course.
Sorry about the picture...it's the best I could do on a Tuesday.
As we all know anyone who runs or walks five or more of the Galway 5km Series will qualify for the series souvenir shirt. Well, James Lundon has trawled through the various sets of results and has come up with a list that should reflect the current state of play as regards 'Who's done what?'
See if you can spot your name below and if you spot any inaccuracies perhaps you might let me know at mick@athenryac.com and I'll pass the messages on to James.
What a fantastic evening for a run in Claregalway. Another field in excess of 400 runners and walkers turned out in Claregalway last evening to enjoy the beautiful weather and take on the challenge of covering 5km as fast as they could manage. The Claregalway route had been tweaked slightly from previous years so the the race started and finished by the Claregalway Business Park. This provided a safer race and more space for organising the finish line. Andy Talbot of Clare River Harriers and his crack team of local volunteers had all of the important organisational details correct.
Word reaches us that Gary Doherty (almost) took Inishbofin by storm last Saturday when he finished in second place in the Croi Inishboffin Half Marathon. He reportedly completed the course in 1:33. I haven't been able to round up full results yet and so I don't yet know who beat our Gary to the line. Mr.Doherty is of course a previous winner of this event back in 2007 and if I have the technology working correctly you should be able to view his moment of glory from that year below.
Congrats to all involved in the recent Kilconieron (not to be confused with Kilcornan) 5M road race.
Niall Callanan and Patrick Forde recently presented the proceeds to Bóthar's Conor O'Donoghue.
The following letter was received by the lads from Bóthar in acknowledgement of their group's fundraising efforts:
Today, I met the Chairman and Secretary of the Kilconieron
Charity Run Committee, Niall Callanan and Patrick Forde
respectively. They organised a 5 mile run on February 28th in
Kilconieron and raised €1,500 for Bóthar.
A few weeks back we got news that former Olympian Martina McCarthy had re-joined the Athenry AC ranks and over the weekend we get news of Martina's return to competitive action with a second place finish in the 200m and a fourth place in the 400m at the AAI games which were held at the Athlone IT track.
Carramore 10k: l-r Ann Lennon (Mayo AC) 1st o35, race winner Catherine Conway (Mayo AC), 2nd place Lucy Brennan (Sligo AC) - Photo: Tom Hunt (Mayo AC)
Carramore hosted their annual 10k Road Race last Saturday evening. The rain held off for the duration and the race was a great success, with a large contingent of Galway athletes making the trip to this excellent race. Mayo AC had a great night out at the races filling the first three places in the senior men's results and Catherine Conway also claimed the women's senior title.