It's that time of year again when people are looking at Spring Marathons (unless you're Ruthann & Val who run one each week). Again this year we have plenty of members travelling for races & we'd like to wish good luck to all. Manchester Marathon: Jane Ann Meehan, Gearoid Rohan, Chris Deakin...

The club wish the best of luck to Ruthann Sheahan this weekend as she takes part in the 11th edition of the 24 Hour World Championships in Turin, Italy on the 11-12th April 2015. The race will also host the 20th European Championships. The race takes place on a 1700m course and starts at 10am local...

2015 SERIES ROAD FIXTURES 1 KILMOVEE 10km Sat. Apr. 4th @1pm, CONTACT JOHN 086 173 7111 2 RUN FOR BOYLO, FOXFORD 10km Sun. Apr. 26th @12pm, CONTACT MARTINA 086 863 3461 3 IRISHTOWN 8km Sun. Jun. 28th @12pm, CONTACT DAVID 087 927 2242 4 BALLA 10km Sat. Jul. 25th @7pm, CONTACT BRENDAN 087 294 1227 5...

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Not only is our own Martin Keane a legend on the road, he has serious clothes sense too, if his sartorial elegance after the race - see above - is anything to go by! Straight out of East LA, via Rathmorrissey. The man was also the only Over 70 male to run in the race today, joined by Mary Cronin...

The 2015 Galway AAI 10M Road Race Championships will take place in conjunction with the Craughwell 10M road race on Sunday, 22 March. Enter here or limited entries on raceday . All Galway clubs are encouraged to ensure that they have teams of women and men competing in this fabulous event, which is...

A two page spread on Fields 10KM Stalwart Bernie Kelly is published in this week's The RTE Guide, in their Run magazine. Congrats and much deserved for her outstanding with for Fit4Life in Galway City via Galway City Harriers.

Sold out Sold out Sold out Sold out Sold out Sold out Sold out Sold out Sold out Sold out Sold out Sold out Sold out Sold out Sold out Sold out The 2015 edition of the Galway 5k Series opens for entries on Friday 13 th March 2015 at 20.00pm, details of which are below; Tuesday 28 th April 2015 @ 8...

Fair play to Mickey Burke for donning a 2014 Fields 10KM hat at the recent Loughrea Careers Day. Seen in a recent Connacht Tribune! "Mickey Burke, Sarah Glynn and Jonathan Boland at the St Raphael's College, Loughrea Careers Day"

See here for the full article... That "runner" happens to be Stoke City fan and Tuam AC's own Brendan Monaghan, still celebrating his a first sub-40 10KM (in the recent Fields) in his 52nd year! It would have been hard to miss Brendan in that get-up, even if he'd been running in the dark. I am told...

From: James A. Lundon Sent: 01 March 2015 23:35 The 2015 Galway AAI 10M Road Race Championships will take place in conjunction with the Craughwell 10M road race on Sunday, 22 March. Enter here. All Galway clubs are encouraged to ensure that they have teams of women and men competing in this fabulous...

The Colemanstown 10k takes place on Easter Saturday, 4 th April @ 12.00pm. AAI permit sponsored by Athenry AC Redtag Timing Fast loop course, good target for a PB Registration available via link below: https://athenryac.wufoo.com/ forms/colemanstown-10km- registration-form/ Earlybird registration at...

See attached poster but key details are: 1st March Clonbur 10k 12 noon 7th March Carnacon 8k 12 noon 21st March Claremorris 10k 12 noon 18th April Ballinrobe 10k 6:30pm Walkers & 7:00pm Runners ALL EVENTS ARE PERMITTED AND OFFICIALLY MEASURED! In each of these events there will be a recording of...

The seventh running of the Kilconieron 5 Mile Charity Road Race takes place at noon on Sunday 22 nd February 2015. This year the chosen charity is Athenry Cancer Care, a local based charity dedicated to helping patients of cancer and their families to cope when cancer strikes. Every cent raised goes...

Welcome to our new feature, Wind Back Wednesdays where we reprint a report from the depths of the Athenry AC newsreel. We start off this week with a Mick Rice account of his Ballycotton 2006 race. Enjoy. Of Spritzers & Sprinters Thursday 2nd March ”“ 03:28pm: On the phone from work to my wife...

See interview with him immediately after the race here. Article from before the race is here. Article on the race itself is here. Video of the race is here but I was not able to access it. Others may be luckier.

Jim Cregan moved to London in early 1960 in an effort to improve his running career and try to participate in international competition which he was denied when running in NACAI events in Ireland. Jim changed his name for running purposes to Hogan, probably because he feared that he might not be...

I was saddened to note the death of the legendary Colum (Colm) Corless of Kinvara and Galway hurling fame earlier this week. The Connacht Tribune have a nice piece on him in this weekend's edition (aside: amazing the amount of athletics/running/road race stories in its pages). Colum played minor...

The Western Eagles Orienteering Club are hosting some introductory orienteering days this spring around Galway. These are great days out for all the family & are great value too. The first session is being held this Sunday in Crestwood Park & is open to everyone.

The National Masters and Intermediates All Ireland Cross Country is on in the Palace Grounds, Tuam, Co Galway on February 8th next. This will be run alongside the Juvenile Development events is the first National Cross Country Championship held in Galway since 1999. Can you please contact Brian...

The Run Clare 2015 series starts next Saturday, 31 January!

With the ongoing fallout from the doping scandal in Russian athletics it looks increasingly likely that Loughrea AC’s Olive Loughnane will be belatedly awarded 1 st position, a gold medal & title of World Champion for her efforts in the 20k Walk at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin. Finishing...

Congrats to Mike Tobin [Craughwell AC] a very good friend of our club (who was also a helper at the recent Fields!!!!!) on his recent multiple awards: Today FM award Connacht Tribune Award. Richly deserved!

Ron Hill ran a few miles today to get to 50 years not out, running every single day in that time for at least one mile. A true legend of our sport! See the BBC article here on the 5KM event he ran today to complete the streak. Ron was In Galway at least once (probably twice) in recent times and a...