The first Magic Mile held this this evening in Dangan was a big success. Over 80 people toed the line in a series of 8 races, blessed with good weather and a dry track. A big thank you to everyone who took part, and especially to the many volunteers who gave up their time to help out this evening...

Results: http://www.ballinasloe.com/content/view/1093/187/ Photos: http://www.ballinasloe.com/photos/v/ballinasloe_events/ballinasloe_10k_Run_Walk/ http://www.ballinasloe.com can be very slow and even inaccessible on occasion!

Not something I followed too close early last week but noteworthy to see that both Martin Fagan ( 28:47) and Mary Cullen ( 32:35) ran outstanding times in their respective races. http://www.independent.ie/national-news/lark-in-the-park-as-11000-run-for-fun-1699705.html http://www.greatrun.org/events...

Mel Casserly who is involved with this fine race tells us, "We had a great turnout for the race this year with over 300 runners and walkers participating, on a rainy day when we were not expecting significant numbers to show up. Times were slightly down on last year, with the winner local man Phil...

The Healthy Heart 10k Charity Fun Walk and Road Race. The Healthy Heart 10k Charity Fun Walk and Road Race will take place on Saturday April 18th 2009 starting at 12 noon at Kilmaley School and there will be an option of taking a 3.5km walk and fun run and all proceeds will go towards the Ray of...

A new monthly athletics e-zine has just been launched to provide runners all over Ireland with information about the sport they love – and it is be absolutely free of charge. The new e-zine was launched today (WEDNESDAY) by two Mayo men – Mark Scanlon and Liam Horan – in mid-April. Mark and Liam are...

Here's the Irish Masters' Athletes Association latest newsletter. In addition, you can find a form for applying for a record, with details of the information you need to send in order to ratify the record.

Photo Above: On The Peak of Knockboy, Co.Cork. Each year the big hearted employees of Boston Scientific select a worthy cause which they champion throughout the course of that year. This year saw Cystic Fibrosis being the charity of Choice. Cystic Fibrosis is Ireland's most common life-threatening...

Local sports photographer John O'Connor has produced another beautiful collection of athletics related photography. On this occasion John has turned his attention to this year's edition of the Anglo Celtic Plate 100k (http://www.celtic100k.com/) which took place a couple of weeks ago in Salthill...

Full results attached as TXT and DOC files from RaceMaster98. Congratulations to all the Athenry AC athletes who finished, especially Martin Keane who probably "won" the M65 category. I understand that the man is burning up the roads out around Rathmorrissey and Derrydonnell in preparation for the...

A most interesting query has reached us from Gary Clancy located in Santa Barbara in California, whose has in his possession an athletics medal won by his grandfather over 100 years ago. He is looking for any information about the club, its origins or otherwise. From Gary (gclancy @ impulse . net)...

I’ve only recently that I encountered the whole concept of a ‘Life List’. From what I can tell they come in two basic shapes. Some people sit down and, having thought about the matter in great detail, or perhaps not at all, draw up a list of experiences or objectives that they aim to work through...

Club member Deirdre Hassett underlined the healthy state of women's running in the club over the weekend by claiming the inaugural Ballinasloe 10km Road Race. Deirdre tells me, " It's the first time I've won a prize for an athletics race. Was very excited indeed! Distance was a little short - my...

39th Year of the Kilmurry Ibrickane/North Clare Michael Egan Memorial 4 Mile Road Race 5/4/2009 1 Seamus Power Kilmurry Ibrickane/North Clare 0/35 21.20 2 Dermot Kearns West Limerick 21.30 3 Patrick Cassidy Glaslough Harriers 21.36 4 John Byrne Mayo A.C 21.48 5 Martin Corcoran Craughwell 0/40 21.55...

Well, he's done it again! Ray O'Connor has managed to drag himself over the finish line of the Marathon Des Sables, generally agreed to be one of the toughest footraces on Earth, in more or less one piece. He even managed to get himself interviewed out on the course by the official race web-site and...

A 'gaggle' of Galway women (and a few men to boot!) ran the Paris Marathon today, many of them flying the Athenry AC flag. First time marathoner Miriam Wall will be very, very satisfied with her fine finish time of 3:49 40. Preliminary results from the official race web site show that she ran a very...

Congratulations to Raheny Shamrock on the recent publication of their club history, all 50 years of it. http://www.rahenyshamrock.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=958&Itemid=36

Fresh from his organisation of a hugely successful Connemara Marathon Weekend Ray O'Connor is on the brink of taking on the biggest challenge of his racing life. This might sound strange as many of us know that Ray completed the infamous 10-in-10 Brathay Challenge which involved running ten standard...

Nice mention of Athenry Athletic Club in an article by Ian O'Riordan (no mean runner himself!) about Johnny Donnelly on Saturday last. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/sport/2009/0321/1224243200366.html

Pictured Above: Johnny O'Connor describes the first hill out of Leenane. The say that a picture speaks a thousand words. Well, as I don't have time to write the thousand words here are some snapshots of the action in Connemara over the weekend. There was some fantastic racing out there amongst the...

Athenry AC's Valerie Glavin produced a stunning run in the Connemara sun yesterday to claim her first Connemara Ultra Marathon title. Running strongly from the start Valerie proved immensely strong over the tough Connemara course and came home strongly over the 'Hell of the West' to the resounding...

The Connacht indoor juvenile athletic finals were held in Nenagh recently, 42 athletes from Athenry competed in these finals where they won 7 Gold, 6 Silver and 8 Bronze medals in the individual events and 1Gold and 1 Bronze medal in the relays. The following were the individual medal winners; The...

You can now look up the Irish Masters national records (or officially "road best performances") for the different age categories at the new website. See the URL's below for men and women, respectively. (The records for indoor and outdoor track and field will be put up shortly). It's a fascinating...

Results from the Ballinrobe 8km 8th March.

Picture Above: Sarah Peterson from New Jersey takes Inishbofin by storm last year... New York With a Difference! The ING New York City Marathon has long been recognised as one of the world's greatest experiences! For the past 9 years Croí have brought people from all over Ireland to complete in this...