The 14th annual Athenry AC 5KM Handicap Championship took place last Tuesday, 30 August 2016 around the old 5KM Series loop in Athenry: the figure of 8 starting close to the level crossing and finishing outside the pitch in Raheen. Forty five hardy souls toed the line, ably marshalled by Race...

Caltra & District 5k Run Friday, 12th August 2016 Caltra & District 5k run/walk took place on the 12th August 2016 in Caltra. We had 80 entries on a wet dark evening. Despite the conditions there was a great atmosphere and everyone enjoyed the event. The run started at 8.00pm and the first male...

Race report to follow http://www.redtagtiming.com/results/SoG2016.pdf

The 11th iteration of the new infamous Burger Run successfully place around the old Athenry 10KM course last evening, Friday, 23 July 2016. Thirty six hardy souls toed the start line shortly after 8PM under the watchful eye of starter, Mick Rice. James Corbett again laid out the logistics...

RedTagTime provided timing services for the 12th running of the Headford 8KM yesterday, Saturday 2 July 2016. See here and attached! Over 250 finished in what look like a decent evening's running, over what is not that easy a course. It is the exactly same route that was employed the first year out...

St Brendan's NS in Loughrea held a permitted 5KM on Thursday evening 23 June 2016 around the Masonbrook loop. The full result is below: Adam Cunney 17 MS 19:07 Greg Glynn 21 MS 19;21 Cathal Nugent 15 MS 19:32 Kenneth Colleran 45 MS 19:38 Caroline Whirskey 40 FS 20:32 Joseph Clancy 42 M40 20:40...

A fantastic day in Monivea, on Saturday 25 June 2016, for the first running of the Athenry AC Half Marathon. It also featured the Galway AAI Half Marathon championship. Both full provisional results are attached. Congrats to all in the club, especially Patrick Forde as race director, on an excellent...

Congrats to the organisers on reaching 10 with their running of a series of permitted races out in Annaghdown on Sunday, 19 June. I was very sorry to miss it, having competed in all previous 9. It was not to be on what looked like a really difficult day for racing - both my car and the Limerick...

The Forest Marathon event was a great success again in Portumna Forest Park on Saturday, 11 June 2016. Results for the various permitted events can be found at RedTagTiming here, here and here.

The Mayfly 10KM in Oughterard ran for a 6th year on Sunday, 22 May 2016, in the middle of 5KM series May. See attached result plus links to John O'Connor's Flickr sets here, here and here.

Congrats to Chris Deakin on his third place finish in the Bullaun 8KM on SAturday, 19 June 2016. The result is attached and Larry Morgan's photos can be found here.

David Huane got a great turnout for the latest iteration of the Ballindine 4M yesterday, Sunday 19 June.

Results from tonight's race in Athenry. Well done everyone! See here for the full result. Also see there for the five other races' results...

The penultimate race of this year's 5km series brought us to Claregalway. A lovely warm and pleasant evening with 638 athletes turning out in force. This week 80 members of Athenry AC gathered along the starting line to take on the single lap race which started and finished at the Claregalway...

Over half way through the 5km series as 587 athletes took on the one loop circuit in Tuam on Tuesday. Athenry AC was represented by 77 from the club with Deirdre Brophy winning the women's race and Fergal Walsh finished 5th overall. There were 8 PB's reported but possibly more! A great nights...

We were greeted by a glorious evening in Loughrea yesterday, which saw the third race of this six race event. Numbers were down from last week with 661 athletes 83 of whom were from Athenry AC taking on this leg of the Galway 5km series. For those of us who had run this course previous, there was...

Last nights race was hosted by Craughwell AC. 88 athletes from Athenry AC (1 less than last week!) donned the maroon and white for the second leg of the series. A total of 732 runners completed the 5km distance. There was a significant improvement in the weather from last week with some sunshine...

It's that time of the year again, the much loved Galway 5km series! For the past number of years the first leg has been hosted by Athenry AC. This year GCH kicked off the series by hosting the event in Ballybrit Racecourse. A cold and windy night but it was dry (with the exception of a few drops!)...

Congrats to all in Labane on the successful running of the latest iteration of the GSP-sponsored 10KM, today, Sunday 17 April 2016. Full result & prizes attaced. Men's winners below:

New Inn's 5th annual road race took place today. There was good running conditions for the race as 261 runners, joggers and walkers took on the one loop course. The rain held off for the duration of the race allowing most of the competitors to complete the course and get home dry! Numbers were down...

Colemanstown 10K took place yesterday, Holy Saturday and proved quite an eventful day as Storm Katie attempted to take a hold on proceedings. Unlike other years, running conditions were far from perfect as the rain came down heavily just before the race began and again during the race as the...

Colemanstown Soccer Club always put on a great race and they kept the ball rolling in 2016 with another great day out for the annual 10K. This was year 6 of the run and sometime between the kids race and the start of the main race the marquee had a fit of giggles and decided that R Kelly might have...

We've been longing for a day like this for quite some time now, after the wind and rain of the last number of months we got the most absolute perfect conditions today for the annual Craughwell 10 mile and boy did it show in the results. All the talk was of PBs at the end, some very big ones too for...

203 athletes gathered in Abbey today, Sunday 13 March, to take on the 10km challenge. It was an increase of over 50 runners on last year's race. The course a 10km loop had a couple of testing hills thrown in for good measure. Weather conditions were ideal, it was dry with temperatures around 13...

Congrats to the small, but merry, band of Athenry AC runners who made the club's yearly pilgrimage down to East Cork last Sunday, 6 March 2016. Conditions were dry for the race itself but pretty dreary both before and afterwards. Some sort of result is available here, if you have the patience to...