Clare Sports Partnership and Clare AAI 5k Summer Series at Lees Road Ennis Saturday 4 June 2011 - Results attached.

Based on feedback from members, we are moving the club speed work session from its current location in Dangan (7:30pm on Tuesday) to Athenry. The new session will take place weekly on Tuesdays at 7pm, in or near Athenry, planned and led by our running gurus, Jane Ann Meehan and Mick Rice. The speed...

Every year thousands of children from all over Ireland travel to the Community Games National Finals. Previously they have been held in Mosney Co. Meath, but 2009 saw a change of venue and Athlone Institute of Technology was selected as the new home. In total, 4 Athenry area athletes made the short...

Athenry Juvenile Athletics under 9 10 and 11 competed in the county competitions on May 7. There were 44 athletes competing on the day and they all did exceptionally well. At the above ages it is a team competition; athletes are paired off on their times and jumps etc. The club in the team events...

He might have a claim to be the most predictable runner in the west of Ireland. A few years after guessing his 10km time exactly at our own 'guess your own time' 10km, Brendan Monaghan of Tuam AC repeated the trick last Saturday night in Ballindine. Full report on Mayo AC

Week 5 of 6 and the wear and tear was starting to show. A slightly smaller crowd was out for the Dangan leg of the Galway 5km series. Only the really brave (or foolhardy) were attempting to better their 5km PB for the 5th time in as many weeks, on an interesting course which included every form of...

The inaugural Roundstone Bay 8K took place on May 21st in this very scenic seaside village on the west coast of Connemara. Under cloudy skies a good mixture of local and visiting runners took on the figure of eight course, which began opposite the Church of Ireland and then headed west passing by...

Race 2, Mayo AC C&C Cellular Road Race League 2011 Carramore 10k Results Summary Full race report attached. Well done to Gary Doherty and James Lundon who represented the club with pride. Senior Men 1: Matthew Bidwell (GCH) 32.46 2: Roger Barrett (Ballina AC) 32.54 3: John Byrne (Mayo AC) 33.20...

Full results at: http://www.redtagtiming.com/Galway5kmSeries2011.html Club results attached in XLS. Elvis hasn't left the building quite yet. A great turnout by the club with 74 Athenry AC members finishing. Luckily the rain stopped right before the gun, and there were lots of fast times again this...

It was the starting ground for Sonia O'Sullivan and John Treacy, not to mention Paul Hession, who narrowly missed a trip to Mosney, placing second in the county championships at the age of 10 (http://www.therunningreview.com/?p=395). The Community Games gave so many of us (talent not always...

The third annual Kilcornan 8K was successfully run in misty conditions around the now usual 8K course early yesterday afternoon in Clarinbridge. Tony Daley, and his crew of helpers drawn from Predator Tri Club in Athenry, put on a great show with a well marked and extremely capably marshaled course...

It was published late this time, but at the request of JAL, here is the latest Irish Masters Athletics Association newsletter. Please see the PDF attachment. Jim McNamara, pictured, is the subject of this issue's 20 Questions feature.

We are delighted to welcome you to Marathon Club Ireland. The club was formed to encourage all aspects of marathon running in Ireland, from participation to organisation. Our aim is to help, encourage and motivate as many people as possible to take on the challenge of completing the classic 26.2...

Team FreeWheelers are organizing an 8km Run through the scenic Cong Woods to raise money for Irish Motor Neurone Disease Association. The FreeWheelers are a group of 7 lads who have undertaken the grueling challenge of cycling the L'Étape de Tour Alp d'Huez 2011 to raise funds for this worthy...

Over 75 Athenry AC athletes competed a scorchingly fast 5KM course last evening around the outskirts the town of Tuam. They included: Owen Adye-Curran 18:20 Mark Breen 17:44 Grainne Breen 25:24 Alan Burke 19:08 Clara Burke 27:24 Aoife Callan 21:33 Janet Clancy 23:15 Michelle Collins 26:50 Finbarr...

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE RACE STARTS AT 8PM THIS EVENING NOT 7:30PM AS SEEN ELSEWHERE. All questions/queries about this Tuesday evening will be answered at the website www.tuamac.com in the "May 5k FAQ" section, or here.

Athenry Athletics Club was delighted to welcome an old friend of the club, Kenyan elite runner, multiple Connemarathon winner and former Dublin City Marathon record holder, Lezan Kimutai, to their Saturday morning training session recently. On Saturday April 30th, Lezan took time out from a busy...

Sunday 15th of May will see the 3rd year of the Kilcornan Forest 8km run which has a mix of tarmac roads and good,clear forest tracks. Held in the scenic grounds of Kilcornan and the local Coillte forest in Clarenbridge this event has grown in popularity since its introduction. There is an event for...

A new F4L course/session is starting on Saturday. Don't worry - you'll be happier than this guy by the time Maeve and Deirdre get you running! New members should show up at 9.45am on Saturday at the church carpark in Athenry with both forms (Health Screening form and Application form) and the fee is...

Gabriel and Josephine Gardiner (both Craughwell AC) hosted a fabulous event on Sunday, 17 April in Coole Park, just outside the historic town of Gort. Nearly 500 people are recorded as finishing the event, around a universally praised course inside the national park in scorching late-Spring weather...

Congratulations to Yasmin Reid (main organiser) and her crew who ran a very successful Christian Camps of the Arts 5KM out in Salthill on Tuesday, 19 April. It followed the basic route/loop used for _Run With Ray_ the week before, instead starting and finishing out near the car park close to the...

The recent Athenry Community Games - the same afternoon as the Coole Park 10KM - were a huge success in Carnaun, with proceedings starting with the men's 300M and women's 1500M. A full set of results is attached. Good luck to all competitors who have qualified to represent their area in the Galway...

The 2011 Galway 5km Series got underway last night in Newcastle near Athenry as the weather gods smiled from on-high yet again. There was an enormous turnout - just under 600 runners from what we can work out - and everything seemed to go smoothly. Credit for local arrangements has to go to Frank...

It is with very deep regret and much sadness that I report on the sudden death of Eddie Murphy, a very good friend of Athenry AC and first cousin of myself (JAL). I last spoke to him the evening after he'd run the Ultra in Connemara a few weeks back. He'd finished in a little over 6 hours and was...

Congratulations to Mick Rice for perfectly pacing around the Three Hour marathon people on Sunday in Limerick, going out in 1:29:46 and coming home in 1:29:41 (negative split of FIVE SECONDS) to record a 2:59:27. However, special kudos must be given to a much more retiring member of the club who did...