Published on 25th February 2013
Congratulations to Ray O'Connor who completed what I believe is his 3rd go at the Helsinki 24 Hour Ultra race on Sunday 24th Feb.
Ray covered a distance of 113.11 km, which converts to 70.28 miles. He finished 58th out of 80 in the male category. The race is run indoors on a track that is not quite 400m.
See full results at http://www.endurance.fi/24/2013/VI_Endurance24h_Results.pdf.
Ray will post his own report in time.
Published on 24th February 2013
Congratulations to Athenry Juvenile athletes who were selected to run for their county today in the beautiful surroundings of Charleville Estate, Tullamore in the national cross country relay championship on today Sunday (24 February 2013). On the Galway Girls U12 team, we had Sarah Gilhooley, Danielle Collins and Freya Bohan, who all ran really well against some very tough opposition. Well done girls you did great at a national event!
Published on 21st February 2013
Hi Folks
Connacht Indoors are to be held in the brilliant new indoor venue at Athlone IT on Sunday 3rd March. We may be able to organise a training session at the venue possibly next week. Sinead will send a text around if it is going to happen.
The venue is fast making a reputation as a very fast track with lots of PB's and national records since it opened recently so here is looking forward to a great championship!
Published on 20th February 2013
The 2nd iteration of the Gorgeous Gort 4M Road Race went well on Sunday last (17 February 2013)!
South Galway AC got a great day for the race and a rush of late entries took the number competing over 110. Well done to Declan Belton and his crew of helpers on a well-run event.
Only one Athenry AC competitor ran, Dave Dunne, coming home easily under 27.
Full result is attached. Photos from the event are on their Facebook site:
Published on 14th February 2013
Yvonne runs (organizes?) Dowling's pub in Athenry with her husband, Will. She joined the club in May 2011.
You can see all the profiles at http://www.athenryac.com/news/athlete-profiles.
Published on 10th February 2013
Maree-by-the-sea was as picturesque as ever for their annual 8k held in conjunction with Amphibian King on Sunday 10th. The weather stayed kind: I'm sure the Ireland rugby team would have swopped it for the awful-looking day they had in their slugfest against England.
Photo: Angela Reid of Maree AC
Published on 5th February 2013
Congratulations and thanks to Deirdre Hassett and Ruthann Sheehan for accepting the posts of Chairperson and Secretary of the club at the recent AGM. This is a real passing of the torch with neither Mick Rice nor Iain Shaw holding one of these roles in the club after so many years.
Published on 4th February 2013
*** Provisional results now added - thanks to Mike Tobin ***
Published on 3rd February 2013
I'm after having a very sad few weeks. Last Wednesday (23 January 2013) in the intensive care unit of St. James Hospital (Dublin) I was at the bedside of my brother-in-law, Martin Vincent McDonagh, as he took his last breath.
About an hour later we were allowed back to see him laid out and were taken aback to see a Fields of Athenry 10KM race hat left at the foot of his bed. A doctor dropped in to explain that it was the only item that came with him when he was removed from the wards to the ICU.
