***** TXT result added taken from the update posted on CraughwellAC.com ***** The third annual Kilconieron 5M road race (for the AWARE charity) took place on Sunday last in brilliant early spring sunshine around the now familiar 5M loop, starting and finishing close to the Kilconieron Hurling Club...

A small and very much belated race report on the recent Clarinbridge 10KM! See also http://www.galwaycityharriers.com/senior-news/clarinbridge-10k-results-0 I was disappointed to miss running in this twice postponed 10KM race as I injured myself trying to keep up with Thomas Porter in a track...

A small and very much belated race report on the recent Tuam 8KM! See also http://www.tuamac.com/tuam-8k-final-result A fantastic event and one that Athenry AC has always been proud to support in every way possible over its recent history. At least 35 from the club ran there this time round...

Sunday March 6th 2011 2.30pm – 4.30pm Amphibian King, Main Street, Oranmore (opposite McDonagh’s Thatch pub) Come meet Paul and get advice on training, competitions, technique and nutrition. Perfect opportunity to meet one of Ireland’s best athletes. Paul, a native of Athenry, Co. Galway, set...

Amidst stiff competition but with good racing conditions, the Athenry AC ladies took a superb gold team medal in the ‘C’ category at the All Ireland Inter-Club Cross Country Championships on Saturday in Santry Demesne. With some of the team new to cross country this year, Amanda Cannon, Aoife Callan...

For the last few years our visit to Connemara, for what has become known as ‘The Fun Run’, has been a great opportunity to mark the start of a new running year and to connect with the great outdoors. Last Saturday thirty-five Athenry club members and a number of friends made the short bus trip out...

The 4th Maree 8KM took place in brilliant weather conditions last Sunday. Matt Bidwell won and has posted a very entertaining blog entry on his day here: http://beermatt.blogspot.com/ A race result has been posted on the Precision Timing web site here: http://precisiontiming.net/result/view/id/146 I...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/athletics/9397574.stm Brian Gregan will be in the 400m men's field after producing an encouraging start to the indoor season but the event will be weakened by the absence of Paul Hession who has pulled out because of a back twinge. Hession was intending to make his...

From Tony Daley: Predator Tri Club & Tri Lakes Tri Club are organising a training Duathlon series based in Kilcornan and Tuam with four events. We are inviting any club members from running clubs, cycling clubs to take part to give them an insight into cross training or having a go at multisport...

The Athenry AC annual general meeting, which took place on Friday 4th Feb, made special presentations to all four athletes who competed in the 24-hour race in Helsinki. All four - Val Glavin, Ruthann Sheehan, Mick Rice, Ray O'Connor - looked none the worse for wear a mere five days after their...

From Maria Hehir: Last November 6th (2010) saw the 1st Athenry Fit4Life 5km charity road race. This race was made for people who had just joined the f4l programme and for current f4l members to test themselves in a low-pressure race. I was very pleased with the turnout on the day as this was my...

Word came through on Sunday morning via Twitter as follows: "Valerie Glavin 2nd Woman with 217.809k; Ruthann Sheehan 7th Woman with 188.714k; Mick Rice 30th Man 165.545k; Ray O'Connor 58th Man with 122.083k;" In the previous 24 hours, four members of Athenry AC had particpated in (and finished) a 24...

See: http://www.rte.ie/sport/athletics/2011/0127/hessionp.html Also check out Paul's new web site at: http://www.paulhession.co/ (.co not .com)

We asked, "What are your goals for 2011?" You said .... Marie Curran Run at least six half-marathons during the year - I want to run DCM in Oct 2012 Complete Connemara half-marathon without stopping or walking Get under 8 minutes for a magic mile!!!!! Orla Tierney Sub 51:00 10km Complete a triathlon...

Athenry Fit4Life will start again for the Spring term at the following times and places:- Wednesday 26th January at 0930 from St Colmans NS in Corofin (Contact Maria Hehir) Thursday 27th January at 1900 from Church Carpark in Athenry (Contact Deirdre Quinn / Maeve Noone) Contact details are listed...

For the avoidance of any confusion, the Connacht Senior & Junior cross-country races which had originally been scheduled for this Sunday are not now going ahead as had originally been planned. It was agreed at the recent Connacht AAI AGM to defer these races to a date yet to be agreed next September...

Please find attached a PDF (1.69MB) of the race booklet which was available to all interested parties at the race today for free. James. P.S. All previous booklets are stored in the following locations: http://www.athenryac.com/2009-fields-athenry-10km-race-booklet http://www.athenryac.com/2008-race...

2010 Field Kids' 1K Fun Run - Alphabetically ordered list of finishers! Danny Bichard Hazel Bichard Luke Burke Michael Burke Tiernan Burke Conor Cannon James Cannon Lauren Carroll Ciaran Connaughton Oisin Connaughton Tadhg Connaughton Dara Curran Cait Daly Layra Daly Ava Earls Megan Earls Alice...

Congrats to Gerry Ryan (Craughwell AC) and Catherine Conway (Mayo AC), winners of the Fields of Athenry 10km. Provisional results attached as TXT, DOC, XLS and PDF; full report and photos to follow. Please contact James Lundon (JamesLundon @ yahoo . co . uk) with any questions or clarifications on...

Well, the weather looks like holding and we'll be good to go tomorrow. Some last minute instructions. Race number are available for collection from 9:30am in Presentation College Athenry Sports Hall. On-the-day entries will be at a separate desk. Parking is available at Presentation College Athenry...

Perfect conditions greeted the start of the 2011 road racing season in Galway this afternoon with the first running in the Resolution Run 5KM in and around Renmore. Over 120 athletes & walkers lined up in dry & bright conditions. The race started, as advertised, at 1:11 PM and the winners crossed...

When I wrote up a news item describing our plans to try to cope with the bad weather, the long range forecast suggested a thaw would start on Christmas eve. It now appears that that thaw won't start until the morning of Dec 26th. Given the state of the race route at the moment, it will take at least...

..or to be accurate, having a nightmare of a white Christmas. After last year's bad weather, I really had hoped that it was a once-in-a-lifetime bad weather event. But as we can see, it's back again. So what's our plan? The bottom line is that we want to give the race every chance to go ahead. It...

Next weekend Ray O'Connor will attempt to complete his 100th race of at least the standard marathon distance - an achievement that only a handful of Irish people have managed before. Known to one and all in the club as the founder and race director of the Connemara Marathon, Ray has been an active...

Photo Credit is Denis Kelleher of Midleton AC Athenry AC’s very own iron lady, Valerie Glavin, topped off a fantastic year on Saturday last with a well deserved win in the inaugural Clonakilty marathon. Valerie’s recent spell of strong training stood to her well on a difficult hilly course that was...