24th Annual Michael (Sonny) Murphy Memorial KILNABOY '10' Sunday 13 April 2008. 2:00pm Place Time Name Team Race Age Category min/mile Place 1 0:51:08 POWER, Seamus Kilmurry-Ibrickane NC AC M 05:06.7 243 1 2 0:53:21 ZAKIS, Raivis West Waterford AC M 05:20.0 1 2 3 0:54:22 BYRNE, John Mayo AC M 05:26...

Last Saturday morning we had a special guest at our regular weekly training run. Former Dublin and Belfast Marathon winner Lezan Kimutai was in town to run the Connemara Half Marathon the following day and he dropped along for a leisurely run around the town to put the final touches to his race...

Any others, please let me know? Half Maire-Treasa Beatty 1:39:47 Half Mark Breen 1:31:17 Half Frank Burke 1:34:08 Half Niall Callanan 1:57:49 Half Maurice Clarke 1:23:59 Half Derek Conerney 1:43:20 Half Tom Conlon 1:55:03 Half James Corbett 2:03:47 Half Owen Curran 1:26:34 Half Michael Duane 1:50:41...

The 38th Annual Kilmurry Ibrickane/North Clare and the Michael Egan Memorial 4 ml. Fun walk and 4ml. Road race at Quilty Co Clare 06/04/2008 1 Seamus Power Kilmurry Ibrickane North Clare snr 19.45 2 Gerry Ryan Galway City Harriers snr 19.56 3 Rory Chesser Ennis Track snr 20.39 4 Dermot Galvin St...

The Irish Masters Athletic Association (IMAA) invites all athletes over 35 to participate in its events in the coming season. Nationally we have the Raheny Road Relays and the National Road 10km Championships (Athenry) coming up in April, the Outdoor T&F Championships in August, and the Half...

You know you are a runner when: - You finish the race looking like you wrestled a bear and you don't care. - You combine phrases like "10 mile run" and "Easy run" in the same breath. - You can sharpen an axe blade on your calves. - Find humour in an other's running form. - Watching a Marathon on T.V...

An army of 38 Athenry AC athletes have been conscripted to join the ranks in the Connemarathon next Sunday. Athenry AC has been affiliated with this fantastic event since it’s inception but never before have we sent forth such an impressive rush of adrenaline. Thirty three will line up in Leenan for...

Places for the hugely popular 3rd Annual Inishbofin Island Half Marathon in aid of local heart charity Croí are once again almost sold out! This unique half-marathon challenge is open to walkers and runners and is being offered as a weekend package on the weekend of May 16th - 18th. The idyllic...

NB. Carney Lissadell 10k Race Result Below Rumours have been perculating through to Athenry AC Central for the past few months that one of our top 10k'ers Brian O'Connor was "...training like a trojan..." . Other words like "madman" and "lunatic" were bandied about as well. We were told that he was...

Paul McNamara In Action in Connemara in 2005 For the first time in recent years there were two Galway runners in action in the senior men's race at this weekend's World Cross Country Championships in Edinburgh. Both Galwaymen carried their green singlets with pride and distinction. Athenry AC's very...

Results from Ballinrobe

A belated brief summary of the Connacht Juvenile indoor championships, I do not have times or distances for each individual performance at the moment. A total of 42 athletes from Athenry Athletic club recently competed in the Connacht Indoor finals in Nenagh. We also had a number a athletes who were...

Sprinter Paul Hession Considers a Surprise Step Up to 10km Final preparations are being made for the biggest athletics event ever to be held in Athenry. Word has reached us that entry forms for this championship are arriving in large numbers at AAI headquarters in Dublin and a star-studded field is...

And the winner is TJ Beatty with his glorious observation... "I heard that the course was waterlogged, but this is ridiculous!!!!!" Much respect to Mr.Delmer for being such a sport about this. Given that this competition was so popular I'll have to repeat it again soon. If you see me with a camera -...

Peter Delmer led the Athenry AC contingent home in some considerable style yesterday at the Ballycotton 10 mile road race in Co. Cork. Peter, who has been in cracking form lately, was running his last race before entering the ranks of the over-forties. He ran a superb race to finish in 29th position...

Vincent Conway PRO Galway Community Games Cross Country is one of the main events in the Mosney Calendar for the May weekend and with a massive increase in participation this year we are sure to be represented by many talented runners. In Tuam on Sunday 2nd of March 186 Children took part in this...

The Annual Ballycottonfest is almost upon us. The final days of tapering have arrived, when every run feels like a drag, you catch a cold, the dog bites you and you just know you're not prepared well enough. Don't worry, if that's how you feel you can rest assured that everybody else feels the same...

by John O'Connor The 36th IAAF World Cross Country Championships, Edinburgh, Scotland which takes place on 30 March 2008, looks to be heading for the greatest ever participation in the history of this the oldest of the IAAF World Athletics Series competitions. This event will be a huge spectacle...

The Donegal Athletic Board, in association with Mizuno and Brian McCormick Sports have announced details of their forthcoming Grand Prix Series of Races which will be held over 2008. Details of races and contact numbers for each event are given below. Grand Prix Fixture List 2008 Date Location Time...

Building on the success of the recent Fit4Life 5km race in Craughwell the women (and one or two men) of the Athenry Fit4Life group made their own contribution to the ever growing success of this style of running and walking. Established by the AAI to provide absolutely everyone, irrespective of age...

Grassy routes can be difficult to find in Galway and very few people can maintain some level of sanity while constantly circling a football pitch. Most people are aware of the fine facilities at the NUIG Grounds in Dangan, but a less well known facility exists on the other side of the city. This 2...

The past two weekends have seen some mighty running, throwing, jumping, and cross countrying at two national events for masters athletes. Masters, or veterans, athletics starts at the over 35 age bracket and continues at 5 year intervals, up to...well, pretty much indefinitely, assuming someone...

Folks Just to let you know that Croi have now launched their New York City Marathon 2008 Team! If you are looking to try something different this year & participate in the ING NYC Marathon and wish to fundraise for Croi, the West of Ireland Cardiology Foundation, telephone Croi on 091-544310 or...

The actual location of the MP3 is http://83.138.170.50/podcasts/audio/1202ronniedelaney.mp3. This file contains a high-quality audio of the total interview, of over 20 minutes duration.

The Athenry AC web site has been nominated for an Irish Blog award. See the awards shortlist here: http://www.richarddelevan.com/2008/02/11/irish-blog-awards-shortlist/ . Well done to all who've made this web site what it is...