It's turning to autumn and the well titled 'Grey Lake' 10km took place on a grey but sunny-in-spots autumn day in Loughrea. With a few good hills taking the runners out around the start of the course, it's not one for a fast time but there was a strong showing and some fast times from 25 Athenry AC...

Results from the Clifden 10km run last weekend. This race is supported by Iain Shaw, as it has a special cause to raise money for the lifeboats in Clifden. He promises faithfully that he's going to run in it next year! The annual Clifden Lifeboat 10k race took place on Sunday 11th September. The...

Jane Ann Healy travelled in style down to Waterford, flying down with Aer Arann for the National Half Marathon championships. Fly she did, as she finished in 1:28:35, at my count in 22nd place in the senior women's category and improving on her Longford time from a couple of weeks ago; showing great...

The first race in the first ever Roscommon 5k Series kicked off bang on time in Roscommon town last Wednesday night, and Athenry's Conor Dolan took full advantage of this new fixture to put in a barnstorming run. Conor finished 2nd in 16.39 behind none other than suprise entrant Shane Healy, a...

Just for completeness, scabbed directly from: http://www.galwaycityharriers.com/senior-results/corrib-oil-streets-galway-8k-2011-official-resultsprize-list .

A fantastic evening's entertainment out in Oranmore last Wednesday night. A perfectly formed out-and-back course. A lovely evening for racing. A massive crowd. A lovely light blue technical top for starters...plus a ballpoint pen! A pity about the hill from one to two KM but perfection is almost...

Very successful first running of the South Galway AC Kilcolgan Castle 4M road race yesterday afternoon! Results in usual formats attached. More to follow in due course. P.S. Those free oysters were lovely :-). P.P.S. See also this great picture of the club's new singlet.

(Report with thanks to www.connemara100.com) For some, a marathon is as far as the imagination runs, but for fifteen athletes the prospect of running one hundred miles in Connemara lay ahead on August 13. The Connemara 100 Mile Ultra Marathon, now in it's third year drew the biggest field to date...

Another rainy weekend in Galway, but there wasn't much fatigue just a week after the Streets of Galway with a good club showing at the annual Claregalway 10km . Local GCH athlete Matt Bidwell once again took the honours in 32:58. Another GCH member, Helen Corbett, took the women's race in 41:40...

The weather just about held, and there was a great club turnout once again for the annual Streets of Galway 8km race. Results are only available in PDF format (copy attached in finish, not chip order with thanks to Galway City Harriers) so I don't have a full breakdown of the individual club...

A little belated but here are the Galway County Track and Field results for 2011 (Thursday 16th, 23rd and 30th June). As home to the 'fastest white man in the world', Paul Hession, Athenry AC have their own track claim to fame, but numbers participating from the club weren't high this year. Brian...

A huge congratulations to Frank Burke, who successfully completed his first Ironman distance triathlon in Bolton, England on Sunday. It's a challenging distance, with a 2.4 mile swim and 112 mile cycle, followed by a 26 mile run. His results were as follows: Swim 1:07 (nice) Bike 6:28 (great bike on...

Nice to see a sprinkling of Athenry AC runners in the first page of the results! Another excellent event I've been reliably told. I was otherwise detained in another part of the city, for my sins, refereeing (badly!) an U-16 B hurling game. The less said about that the better, so as to protect the...

I understand there was an amazing crowd at the first running of this race last week in Renville out in Maree/Oranmore. Congratulations to the organisers on a super race and the large amount of money raised for its very good cause! PDF of provisional results courtesy of our friends in www...

The club's 6th (or 7th?) Burger Run took place in near perfect running conditions last Friday evening around the old Fields 10KM course with slight modifications. Dull, slightly chilly, misty! It's the now traditional Name-Your-Own-Time format and is a non-championship race but has the designation...

The fourth Boston Scientific 5km road race took place last night (Wednesday, July 13th) in glorious sunshine in Maree. Over 220 runners took to the roads - from Boston Scientific, local running clubs (Athenry AC, Galway City Harriers, Craughwell AC, Clare River Harriers among others) and Ohio!! The...

The sun poked its head out on Saturday evening after a week of rain for the 7th Headford 8km. Athenry AC had a strong performance, with Jane Ann Healy taking first place in the women's race, showing great form just a few months back into training, with a finishing time of 32:22. Brian O'Connor and...

See http://www.womensminimarathongalway.ie/ but also http://www.redtagtiming.com for a full result, copied here as XLS and PDF. Congrats to all Athenry AC runners but especially to Jane Ann Meehan who was fourth overall in 41:26 and to Miriam Wall who broke 47 in 15th place. I passed the event at...

The Clare 10k results from last Saturday are attached as a HTML file, via the http://www.clare10k.com web site. What is noteworthy (for me anyhow) is that a good friend of AAC and a well known character on the road race circuit here in Galway, ran sub-40 for the first time ever: Gabriel Gardiner of...

The results of the 2nd annual Portumna 100km/50km/Marathon/5KM are attached. I am sorry not to have made it out to support a number of Athenry AC athletes, in particular 'tiny' Ed Egan who is in fantastic form at present, but I can't be everywhere at once. I am very gratified to note that a...

Congratulations to the organisers of the 2nd annual Milltown "Run for Ollie" 10KM held last Saturday. Another hugely successful event I hear. Fully results are attached and can also be found at http://www.redtagtiming.com . The Friendsof Ollie Facebook page is here: http://www.facebook.com/profile...

Find attached the provisional results and prize list from last evening's 5th annual midsummer's Annaghdown 10KM! My mini-report: It poured before; it poured afterwards; it stayed dry during; phew. Please contact Paul Fallon at pfallon1965 at live dot ie if you want to clarify the race result in any...

Another year and another missed Bilboa "Ger Mullane" 10k :-(. Bernie Kelly ably represented Galway with a second place W50 placing. The attached result is courtesy of the ever-reliable James Sexton.

Despite neglecting her running career this year to work on her cycling, including a very recent successful Malin to Mizen trip on the June bank holiday, Athenry AC member Miriam Wall took gold in the Cope Triathlon (sprint distance 750m/ 20km/ 5km) held in Salthill last Sunday, June 12th. She had a...

The persistent rain failed to dampen the spirits of the 155 runners and walkers who took to the streets of Monivea for the second annual running of the 5K course. A further 30 parents and children participated in the family walk ensuring that very age group from 2 to 80 years was represented. All...