While we will always retain our love for the old boreens, the tarmac, and the concrete footpaths, strong documentary evidence is in that Athenry AC athletes now pursue another love. Shock, horror, drum roll, some individuals are competing in FIELD events. At certain recent Co Galway Track & Field...

One of our newer members, Martina Fahy, recently completed the Women's Mini Marathon in Dublin. Here's her report of the action on the day... Congratulations on a great effort Martina "I worked a seven day very busy shift (Ocean Race Week) in Salthill as a chef in the hottest week in the year coming...

There’s a scene halfway through a classic film that sums up London, or at least the mid nineties junkie’s view of it. A fantasy land of orange haired punks, red double decker buses, micro skirted ladies and smiling policemen with black helmets, where money and jobs spurt like water from a hose...

Fell late last night while out doing a slow three miler. Had double knotted my laces, as usual, but obviously I left a big-enough loop in one of the them so that when I performed a full 360 degree turn at one stage, my right lace tangled up my left foot. I saw my life flash before my eyes before I...

Race Report From This Year's Burren Marathon Challenge from Deirdre Hassett A philosophical question: is it possible to win if technically you’re not racing, sort of like a tree falling in the forest? I had a couple of goals for the Burren half marathon this year - as my second attempt, one goal was...

They say ‘you can never go back’ and they also say that ‘lightening never strikes twice in the same place’. Well the Athenry AC No.1 Marathon Relay Team, not to be confused with the Ladies’ No.1 Detective Agency, tried to turn the book of clichés on its head last weekend by returning to the scene of...

Report from this year's race from Galway based Ultra-Endurance Athlete - Diana Hogan-Murphy Comrades has to be the world’s greatest race. I mean 89km is the type of distance that usually lures about, oh, 70 runners. But Comrades has enough magnetism to draw 12,000 athletes wanting to complete what...

My marathon report will be brief as so too was my race. I started training in February for Cork with sub 3 in mind. I put in 6 weeks of seventy miles, four of eighty, one of eighty five, 3 new PBs for 13mile, 10mile&10km, hours of stretching and reading but unfortunately only about two hours of...

All Shook Up - A race report of sorts from Craughwell, Race 3 of the 2009 Galway May 5KM Series Seven, six, eight, four, nine and nine miles. Not my previous 6 days' running but my last 6 weeks'. That's the Way It Is, no real excuses! I haven't been feeling the best, not exactly sick but not exactly...

This was the third time I had donned my Athenry AC singlet. The other two times were the previous Sunday and Tuesday, for the National 10k in Navan and the first of the 5k series in Athenry. Both races resulted in personal bests - could I make it three from three at the Bay Run half-marathon in...

Belfast marathon Race Report by Ray O'Connor Would I or won't I was the most commonly asked question in my head. I was feeling the pain of London in my legs all week, post marathon fatigue like I have never felt before, well not in the last few years anyway. The decision was finally made as late as...

London Marathon Race Report by Ray O'Connor Recovery after the Marathon Des Sables was great and I got straight back running just a day after returning. It was funny running without the backpack. I really felt like I was floating along and decided straight away that I should try for a good time in...

With the week that's in it we'll take a look back at Frank Burke's outing to Boston back in 2009. Will Maeve beat his time this weekend??? Race Report from Boston 2009 from Frank Burke I have been to Boston a couple of times and must say I love the place - the summer weather, the scenery, the sights...

Report by Deirdre Hassett As an engineer, the idea of applying scientific principles to running appeals to me. I’m inherently lazy, so anything that will allow me to go faster using less effort is good (note the compression socks which together with the new maroon club shorts raised a few eyebrows...

Race Report by Miriam Wall on Her Recent Marathon Run In Paris The Beginning: A note of warning – this is a marathon report (i.e. a long one). There are no short cuts to the finish line. The idea of running a marathon was never my game plan. As a relatively new runner (my first 10KM was in April...

So here I am, just off a bus, in a small town called Hopkinton on the outskirts of Boston at 7:00am on a cold and windy – but dry – morning in April. I am surrounded by several thousand strangers and we all have one goal in common: to run back to Boston as fast as we possibly can. It’s not that we...

After 26 months planning, many weeks trying out new gear and quite a few nights lying awake, the big event came and went like a blur (not that I was running fast or anything). A quick recollection of the highs and lows is almost impossible to put down in paper, and a long report will be written, but...

Ok anyone that knows me knows that I like to talk so as it was a long race here’s a long race report. Back in October after finishing the Dublin Marathon I felt that I could have gone further but not necessarily at that speed and maybe not another 13.1, but definitely more, so in my endorphin...

Barcelona Marathon Race Report by Grainne Breen I stand on the Av.Reina Ma Cristina under the Montjuic Palace and the beautiful Montjuic Fountain and looking at the Plaça d’Espanya and the two large Venetian towers which I will be passing through in one moment to start my first marathon. I’m...

Maree 8km Race Report (15th February 2009) by Miriam Wall I never knew when I joined Athenry AC that I needed to be a sports writer as well as everything else. (So be warned if you are thinking of joining up). With near perfect running conditions the Maree 8km race took place. A nice cool day with a...

I'd heard a lot about the first running of the Elverys-sponsored Maree 8KM Charity Road Race last year from Ann Carter & Mark and Grainne Breen. I made it my business to be there for the second running, yesterday, Sunday 15 February 2009 @ 1:00 PM. Rolled into Maree, with Martin Keane in tow, just...

Eight hardy couples dragged themselves from weekend lie-ins, post-party stupors, family committments, and frost-skating to participate in the first ever Sweethearts relay at Ballybrit at noon on Sunday 7th. We had a couple of withdrawals but Clara Burke and Mick Rice happily showed up to complete...

Inis "Iron" Meáin is a tough, or tougher if you take in the dunes, 10k(ish) run around the island, which was held on Sunday for the fourth year running. The event is organized in aid of Coláiste Naoimh Eoin, the island's school. One of our newest Athenry AC members, Sinead Foran, took part again...

Report and Pictures from this year's Hollymount Races From Tom Hunt of Mayo AC The 43rd Annual Hollymount Road Races took place on Sunday. Once again it was excellently organised by Sean Reilly and his team. It was the eighth race of nine in the C&C Cellular Mayo AC Road Race League. The weather was...

Dublin City Marathon 2008 Race Report by Mark Breen I can honestly say that I thoroughly enjoyed myself last Monday at the Dublin City Marathon. Meeting the other Athenry AC crew outside Tesco's at 8.00am and then "the rest of the West" throughout the Day. Craughwell, GCH, Tuam, Loughrea and from...