Congratulations to Clare River Harriers on a very nice event, where the rain stayed away but not the wind. A good preparation for much stiffer targets ahead in May! Report from the event organisers is below: Congratulations to all of Claregalway and the surrounding areas on the massive turnout on...

Another great weekend on the roads for Athenry. In Turin this morning, Ruthann Sheahan finished a brilliant 11th in the World at the IAU 24Hour World Championships. Competing on a 2km loop Ruthann covered 112 laps before having to bow out with 44 minutes left on the clock, coming agonisingly close...

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...

Congrats to Loughrea AC on a fine race yesterday, Monday 6 April, around the town. It is a prelude to the new couse which will hopefully be seen come this year's 5KM series next month. Athenry AC were well represented in the race. A fine morning greeted the over 250 runners and joggers. One and a...

Full provisional result is here. Full report is here. Congrats to senior section secretary, Kieran Guiry, on breaking 40 for the first time. There is only ever a first time and everyone in the club heartily congratulates the man on finally breaking into the 39s. Kieran's previous PB for the distance...

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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A truly massive crowd in New Inn, today, Sunday 29 March 2015, for the 4th running of their increasingly popular 5KM road race. Kudos to the organising committee from St. Killian's Vocational School on a flawless event, except for the downpour that greeted the finishers at the top end of the field...

Congrats to all the 2015 registered runners from around the county who took part in the Galway 10M Road Race Championship, which was hosted with the Craughwell 10M Road Race, last weekend. Athletes from 11 different clubs competed (Galway City Harriers, Craughwell AC, Athenry AC, Maree AC, South...

There seems to be something about Craughwell that brings out the best in Athenry members as once again the results were littered with PBs. Jane Ann Meehan reconfirmed her position as probably the top female runner currently racing in Galway, taking the win with a commanding 5min gap to second place...

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...

Congratulations to Ruthann Sheahan on her third position in this weekend's Tralee marathon with an outstanding 3:09:35. Although it's only mid March, Ruthann already has eight marathons & one ultra under her belt since the turn of the year! Currently training for another 24hr race Ruthann is...

Congrats to Gerry Larkin, Declan Donnelly and their crew on a very successful race out in Abbey today Sunday, 15 March, their third 10KM. Congrats to our own Deirdre Quinn on her second place in the senior women's race. FINAL & OFFICIAL result and prize list is attached.

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.

The windy conditions definitely didn’t affect the on course performances in Kinvara yesterday as both male course records were smashed with plenty of PB’s also ran in what has quickly become one of the most well organised & well liked races on the calendar. The British raiding party took the honours...

Congrats to Mairead Sullivan, Maeve Noone and Deirdre Quinn on their team medal winning performance in last autumn's National Marathon AKA Dublin City Marathon. Kieran Guiry is seen here presenting Mairead and Maeve with their national medals at the recent AGM.

Result from 1 March 10KM is located here. Congrats to all concerned on this most worthy charity event!

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...

This week it's a brilliant report from Peter Delmer on his experience at the 2007 Garburn Trail Race. Never write down a goal … it might come true. I thought about that as I struggled up and down over the last few miles of the Garburn Trail Race. Thoughts weren’t coming easy at that stage, nothing...

Athenry AC fielded a very competitive team at last weekends Connacht Indoor Championships bringing home a substantial medal haul. These championships are important in the juvenile calendars as they serve as qualifiers for the National Juvenile Championships later this month. Every single athlete...

James Lundon was presented with his prize for Clubperson of the Year 2014 at the recent club (senior) AGM. This was the result of completing 44 races in 2014. He is the 9th different winner in the 9 years of the award: 2006 - Alan Burke 2007 - Johnny O'Connor 2008 - Maire Treasa Beatty 2009 -...

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...