An update on The Mayo AC Open Road Race Series from Tom Hunt of Mayo AC. MAYO AC OPEN ROAD LEAGUE 2007 Race 5: BALLINA 'Terry Fox' 4 miles The C& C Cellular Mayo AC Open Road League continues on Sunday 14th October with race five of the seven race series. This four-miler takes place at Ballina and...

Athletics Ireland recently announced it's Regional Development Squads for 2007/8, which included seven members of Athenry AC's juvenile section. These squads are aimed at assisting athletes in the u14 to u19 age bracket who have shown potential at provincial and national level in the last year...

Thanks to Tom Hunt for Summary Results. We'll publish a fuller result as soon as it becomes available. St Barry's, Tarmonbarry GAA Club 24th Annual Half Marathon/6k Sunday 7 Oct 2007 HALF MARATHON Men 1 John Byrne (Mayo AC) 72.47 2 Peter Mooney (Na Fianna) 74.36 3 Valera Turcan (Clonmel AC) 76.40...

Local runner Fergal Geraghty of GCH came out on top after a great contest with Athenry AC'c Brian O'Connor and Brian Bruton in the annual Galway Bay 10 Mile Road Race in aid of Cancer Care West last Saturday. Regina Casey, also of GCH ran a particularly strong race to win the womens race and finish...

Johnny O'Connor 3:01:50 (PB by over FORTY minutes). Ray O'Connor 3:26:57 (PB by nearly 11 minutes). Mick Rice 3:26:56 (running backwards). I want TJ to re-measure that course!

HOT OFF THE PRESSES... Results enclosed and attached as a TXT file. ++ Loughrea Five K 5K ROAD RACE Saturday 29 September 2007. 5:00 pm Provisional Results for All Competitors in finish order. Pace Race Race Place Time Name Team Race Age Category min/Km No Plac 1 0:14:48 O`SHEA, Alan Bantry A C...

Galway’s 2007 cross-country season got off to a great start this past Tuesday with the 2007 Galway Primary Schools Cross-Country Championships, which were held in ideal weather conditions in Renmore Park. Congratulations to all the children who participated. This is the best attended and most...

Photo Credit: Hany Marzouk I’m not sure what it is but there’s something about looking out across a large body of open water that makes me not want to swim across it. Even though I had foolishly agreed to take part in my first triathlon many months previously and even though Seb Locteau had...

Rory Chesser and Veronica Colleran are the masters in the Lees Road Cross Country Races Ennis Track Club’s 1st Annual open cross country Juvenile and Senior Cross Country Races took place at the Lees Road Sports Complex with fine fields in all races. There were races for Juveniles from U/8 to U/16’s...

Whilst no longer running times to write home about, I thought (or to be precise Mick asked me to!) you'd like an insight into my run at the Dublin Half Marathon last Saturday. It has been cobbled together from my Blog entry on my Ramblings Page, so apologies if you read that and feel a sense of deja...

Athenry sprint star Paul Hession has been rewarded for a season replete with national records and world-class competition with qualification for the World Athletics Final in Stuttgart, Germany. Paul's race is on Sunday at 03:50pm German time, which is 02:50pm Irish time. The start list is as follows...

Club Captain Brian O'Connor today announced that the annual Club Championship race over 5km will be held on Saturday the 13th of October next at 11:00am. As the track in Dangan is not currently available the race will be held on the road for the first time ever and the venue will be in Newcastle...

As long as I’ve been a runner I’ve been aware that many runners, particularly the faster and younger ones, have nurtured an unhealthy disrespect for Triathletes. They’re such an easy target after all. Anyone who has ever seen those burly men in their skin-tight tri-suits will surely know what I mean...

Paul Hession moved up one place in the 2007 World Athletics Tour Standings at the Memorial Van Damme Golden League meet in Brussels on Friday evening. He is now ranked in 9th place in his 200m event before the final Golden League meet in Berlin today. Johan Wissman of Sweden is the only other...

Having had some time to recover from his experiences at the World Athletics Championships in Osaka, Athenry AC’s Paul Hession gets back into the thick of world-class action at tonight’s Golden League meeting in Brussels. Tonight’s meeting, the Memorial Van Damme, will be televised on Setanta Sports...

It's that time of the year again and with the last of the summer's road races, thoughts turn to cross country running and the indoor races to be run during the autumn and winter. Many of the dates and venues have now been set for these events and are given below as a single list. When I have a...

(Thanks to Tom Hunt for these summary results) Top Ten M/W Ballina 10k Mayo AC Open Road Race League 2007 Race 4 Men 1 Declan Fahy U/A 32.35 2 John Byrne Mayo AC 32.44 3 Paddy Murray Mayo AC 33.15 o40 4 Martin Conroy Sligo AC 33.37 5 Robert Malseed Clonliffe H 33.49 6 Anthony Devaney Mayo AC 35.22 7...

In July last year Athenry AC undertook one of its biggest ever projects in organising the High5 Galway Twilight Track and Field Meet. Entries were accepted from athletes of all standards and from many parts. Some of the best British athletes around mixed on the day with the most talented runners...

With so many other races and activities going on at the moment we neglected to post news on Galway man Andy Talbot’s progress in Italy at the World Masters Athletics Stadia Championships in Italy. A link to the results is given below and shows that Andy finished in 35th position of 68 runners in his...

(Many thanks to James Sexton for providing results and pictures) Killimor Co Galway 4 Mile Road Race 09-09-07 Results. 1. Gerry Ryan Galway City Harriers 19 : 45 2. Jason Broderick Craughwell 21 : 08 3. Martin Corcoran Craughwell 21 : 16 4. David Quinn Ennis Track 21 : 35 5.` Mark Davis Craughwell...

St Finbarr's Athletic Club MIZUNO/CORK HALF-MARATHON Sunday 9 September 2007. 11:00am Place Time Name Team Race Age Category min/mile 1 1:11:32 SOSNOWSKI, Wieslaw Eagle AC M 05:27.5 145 1 2 1:12:06 ZAKIS, Raivis West Waterford AC M 05:30.1 295 2 3 1:12:52 MERRITT, Colin Togher AC M35 05:33.6 167 3 4...

I wrote this report last June, but never posted it. Thought I'd get it up here for posterity now. Will be recruiting team mates for next year ... you have been warned. Peter +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Never write down a goal … it might come true. I thought about that as I...

The ever-popular four mile road race in Killimor, Co.Galway has been fixed for Sunday the 9th of September at 1:30pm. This is one of the most popular fixures on the Galway racing calendar each year and regularly attracts a strong field of runners from outside the county. Organisers Thomas and Mary...

The highly popular Mayo Open Road League continues this Sunday with race four in Ballina when Ballina AC will host their annual 10k road race at 3:00pm on that day. Recently crowned M55 Half-Marathon Champion of Ireland Tom Hunt of Mayo AC has been in touch with the individual standings after the...

The 2007 Athenry contingent that set out for Ballybofey were realistic in their outlook this year. After the high point of collecting Senior Men’s Team Bronze at the same event last year, this assault on the National Half Marathon Championship was certainly more in hope than in expectation. A team...