Congrats to Craughwell AC on their latest half and full marathon races last Saturday morning, 26 August.

Results: half and full (Facebook).

Phones from Edenhill77: here and here.

Nice evening for the 30th Claregalway 10kM last Satuday, 26 August.  Congrats to local club (Clare River Harriers) on another successful event.

See here for RedTagTiming result.

See here for EdenHill77 images.

A nice number of medals are coming back to Athenry AC...young and not so young ;-).

A nice morning for running in Caltra last Saturday, 19 August, for the club (and county) 5KM & 10KM road races.  Results are in those links.

Pride of place goes to Aine O'Farrell (of this parish) who won the 5KM in 19:24.  A long road career is in front of this young woman!  The first four women were all Athenry AC.

Yvonne Fehily won the 10KM which took place 30 minutes after the start of the 5KM.

Edenhill77 was there to capture the action - see here.

Congrats to the local club on the second running of their 5KM.  onwarda and upwards.

Registration is now open for new members for Fit4Life in September! You can join by following this link
https://athenryac.wufoo.com/forms/join-athenry-ac-fit-4-life-2017/
Fit4Life recommences on Monday 4th September at 7pm, meeting in the Church car park in Athenry.

Results from second annual Cappataggle 8KM (Saturday, 29 July) attached as PDF.  Photos are here with EdenHill77.

See here for Cathal Dennehy's assessment of Irish adult athletics at present.

Please be warned the the full marathon has now sold out and that the 10KM is about to do so.  

There are still some entries in the half, but for how long...

See here for the races' web site or here.

Athletics Ireland today released the names of the athletes representing Ireland for the upcoming Celtic Games to be held in Santry on August 5th (http://www.athleticsireland.ie/news/celtic-games-team-announced-2017/).  Athenry ACs own Ryan McNelis (on left of picture) will be representing Ireland in the 400m Hurdles as part of the Irish Development squad.  Ryan's selection is just reward for the hard work that he has put in over the past 6 months which culminated in a fantastic silver medal at the recent Irish Life Health National Juvenile T&F Championships where he smashed his PB by nearly 3 seconds to set a fantastic time of 56.81s.  This really has been a breakthrough year for Ryan in his first real competitive season over the 400m Hurdles, and the juvenile medal goes along with the national junior silver medal he also received earlier this summer.  We all wish Ryan the best of luck at the Celtics and look forward to seeing further progression from him over the next 12 months.

There will be 8 County Galway athletes representing Ireland at the Celtic Games - Aoife Sheehy (GCH) – 400mH & 4x400m, Lydia Doyle (GCH) – 100mH & 4x100m, Laura Nally (GCH) – 4x400m, Chloe Casey (Craughwell) – Discus, Jerry Keary (Craughwell) – High Jump, Laura Cunningham (Craughwell) – Triple Jump, Ryan McNelis (Athenry) – 400mH and Daniel Callanan-Forde (Loughrea) – Triple Jump.  Coupled with the recent inclusion of Cillin Greene and Alanna Lally at the U20 and U23 European Championships respectively there really is a resurgence in County Galway athletes making a mark on the National athletics scene. Long may this continue.

Registration for The Fields of Athenry 10km (on St. Stephen's Day) Is now open. Entry fee is €20 until the 1st December. Thereafter the fee will be €25 until registration closes a couple of days before the race. You can register by using this link!
https://athenryac.wufoo.eu/forms/m1kffvld02gbmhr/