Athenry AC has been chosen to host the 2012 National Half Marathon Championships. The race will be held on Sunday 2nd September around the streets of Athenry. This is great news for the club and for running in the county to get this race and follows on from a very successful hosting of the National 10Km Championships several years ago.
Further details will appear here in due course.
Galway 5KM Series (Loughrea) – 15 May 2012.
Been going well recently. Fairly well anyhow! Clocking some good times in training. Racing some half-decent times. Sub-72 in Ballycotton 10M. Sub-43 in Ardrahan 10KM. Best 10KM in embarrassingly long time. Off little mileage too. For me anyhow. Nothing new there to be honest!
Ran 21:17 in Newcastle first night. On my own. Before the main event itself. Time trial of sorts. See what I could do. On my own as I said.
For those of you who may be fed up with all the Titanic publicity, don’t read any more of this.
Back in 1912 my late uncle Andy Keane was one of a large family living on a small farm outside Athenry. For obvious reasons he decided to emigrate to America but, unfortunately, he decided to travel on the ship Titanic and, of course, the rest is history, as he and many more went to their watery graves.
Roundstone Bay 8K – Sat 19th May 2012
“Unique Event and Prizes in a Stunning Location”
Jane-Ann Healy (pictured here after winning the 2012 Connemara Half Marathon) continued her fantastic running form today with a very well deserved 2nd place, in the Kildare Marathon, which was won by Pauline Curley. Jane-Ann finished in a race time of 3:05:34 agonisingly close to the magic 3 hour barrier she is sure to break very very soon. Jane-Ann wasn't alone on the run, being kept company for most of the race by 3-hour pace man Mick Rice (2:59:31) and Tony Killarney who crossed the line in a truly superb 3:07:43.
By Frances Leahy
For a lot of people, running has been a way of life from school sports days to continuing on in their adult life – but for some of us that is not the case. Back in May 2011 a group of women joined F4L group in Athenry AC not knowing what we were letting ourselves in for. We gave it a go and after a number of weeks out on Thursday evenings and Saturday mornings, we were hooked.
Noel Fox is another recent recruit to our club but that hasn't stopped him hitting the ground running in a big way since joining. Altogether he has completed 5 marathons: Dublin 2008, Newry 2009, Stockholm 2011, Connemara 2012, Limerick 2012. Below see his race report on the Limerick marathon on May 6th. As a postcript to his efforts in Limerick on Sunday, Noel turned up for the Claregalway 5k on Tuesday and clocked a handy 20:49.
Two numbers -- six hundred and twenty seven finishers in Newcastle, six hundred and twenty five in Claregalway -- tell the story eloquently: this Galway 5k Series has been a huge success so far and we look forward to this continuing in the next four races.
The first leg of the Galway 5km series 2011 takes place this Tuesday, 1st of May at Newcastle, Athenry. You must have already registered online through RunIreland.com to run, that is, no entries will be taken on the night.
A great day today in Labane/Ardrahan courtesy or Josephine and Gabriel Gardiner! Fair play on a very well organised event. I wonder where you got your finish line clock from ;-).
