Ray O'Connor, Race Director of the hugely successful Failte Ireland Connemara Marathon races (www.connemarathon.com), has decided to award a small number of complimentary entries to the 2006 running of his events to successful runners in this year's Proactive Fields of Athenry 10K road race.

Complimentary entries will be made available to the first man and woman past the post on St.Stephen's Day in Athenry and also to the first man and woman past the post who can claim to have participated in all previous Fields of Athenry 10k races. According to our records the select band of runners who can claim to have taken part in all three previous versions of the race to date are as follows;

Women

Bernie Kelly

Siobhan Keane

Mary Mullins

Fionnuala Keane

Men

Brian Geraghty

Danny Carr

Darragh O'Brien

Finbar Flaherty

Gabriel Collins

Gerard Quinn

Kevin O'Dea

Liam Mulloy

Martin Keane

Martin McEvilly

Patrick Kelly

Roger Rushe

Tommy Joe Whyte

As the Connemara races are always heavily over-subscribed, these spots are valuable prizes and we're absolutely thrilled to be able to award them to our runners in Athenry.