What running shoes do you train in? ASICS 3000. How many miles did you run last week? 59·24km (not a typo!!). What’s your favourite racing distance? 5km – I prefer the shorter faster distances. Where’s your favourite place to train? I like to run on the roads around Athenry. There is a great...

What running shoes do you train in? Brooks Adrenaline. I’ve been wearing them since 2010 & I love the fact that I can take them brand new from the box and run. No aches, no blisters, they can even withstand deserts, mountains and bogs and rivers alike. I trust them completely. How many miles did you...

1. What running shoes do you train in? Mizuno Wave Inspire, have tried a few other brands but keep coming back to Mizuno. 2. How many miles did you run last week? 35 3. What’s your favourite racing distance? 10mile or ½ marathon. 4. Where’s your favourite place to train? Rinville & Maree, there’s a...

So, I finally got fed up of Pat McDonagh and Tomas Ruane talking about running. Couldn't meet for a social pint but the conversation would always turn to race times, training plans, beating this lad and that lad in recent races, will I ever be able to run a half marathon etc etc.. And for a non...

I started running for fun back in 2009. After a few weeks of solo training my first race was the Streets & a couple of weeks after that I did Gaelforce West. Like many others I foolishly thought I was naturally fit & would be fine. At 65k long with Croagh Patrick thrown in the middle of it, it...

1. What running shoes do you train in? Anne: Brooks GTS 12 Pearse: Mizuno Wave Inspire 8 2. How many miles did you run last week? A: Tough question, as we were on holidays last week, but I try and get in 10 /15 miles per week. Just to keep ticking over. P: Zero! Due to injury. Cycling & swimming at...

1. What running shoes do you train in? My Vibram Bikele are number 1 but I ran the Ultra in my Sketcher Bionics Go Run - another beautiful minimalistic shoe. 2. How many miles did you run last week? Just the Ultra - 39.3 miles! 3. What’s your favourite racing distance? Has to be the Marathon. There...

I am originally from Roscommon. I always played sport at school with my club, Oran. In fact I have an under-14 All Ireland camogie medal with my club which ironicaly I won here in Athenry at a Feile na nGael . I also played gaelic football for Michael Cusacks Club in Sydney Australia. I have always...

Peadar, along with Martin Keane, is a Life President of our club. A native of West Clare, he moved to Galway in November 2004, having worked for 35 years in Dublin. He has a long and distinguished career in athletics, winning a silver medal at the NACA national championships back in the early 1970s...

For those who've been off the planet for the past six years, Paul is a member of our club and competes in the 200m at the upcoming London Olympics. His races are on Tuesday the 7th, and then the 8th, and 9th August. Paul was born and bred in Athenry (see http://www.paulhession.co/biography.html). He...

Of Irish parentage, Kellie moved to Ireland from England in her early twenties. She commutes to... Ballina three days a week and, yeah, that's the Ballina in County Mayo. Let no one else complain about not having time to train. She's married to Damien Burke who treats sports injuries and has two...

Frank joined Athenry AC in 2008 and applied himself steadily to the difficult task we've all experienced of getting back to real exercise in adulthood. Unfortunately, he suffered a series of injuries, including falling off a ladder, which kept him out for two years. He's back now and has recently...

Martin joined Athenry AC in early 2010 and has shown an appetite for hard training almost from the start. He also likes to follow a plan with good foundations laid. Last year he did what seemed like the entire training program for the Dublin Marathon but he never intended to participate. He built on...

Assumpta joined Athenry AC in January, 2008 and over the next couple of years competed in several half marathons in New York, Longford, Dublin, and Connemara. Baby girl Brynn arrived in 2010 and curtailed her running activites for a couple of years. However, from January of this year, it's been back...

Janet joined the club in January 2010 and soon established herself as a regular on the Saturday morning 9 o'clock run. Soon after, it seemed anyway, she teamed up with Maeve Noone and Deirdre Quinn to form the triumphirate of gals (and gels) who are one of the bedrocks of training in our club. Janet...

1. What running shoes do you train in? Asics Cumulus (am going to try some Saucony shortly – bored! Any neutral shoe works). I love my Inov8’s for trails. 2. How many miles did you run last week? 24 – Ironman training is nearly killing me, and it’s not the running! 3. What’s your favourite racing...

1. What running shoes do you train in? Asics Kayano 2. How many miles did you run last week? 28 3. What’s your favourite racing distance? 10 k. The Galway 5k series, I have only missed one race in the entire 5k series. 4. Where’s your favourite place to train? Dangan. You alway meet some one there...

1. What running shoes do you train in? Asics 1140 2. How many miles did you run last week? 3km! (returning from injury) 3. What’s your favourite racing distance? 5km 4. Where’s your favourite place to train? Anywhere 5. What’s your favourite event or race each year? Athenry 10km and Fit 4 Life 5km...

1. What running shoes do you train in? Saucony Omni 9 2. How many miles did you run last week? 42 3. What’s your favourite racing distance? Half Marathon 4. Where’s your favourite place to train? Quiet country roads in East Galway 5. What’s your favourite event or race each year? Only running for 2...

This profile was done back in April - I've only gotten around to posting it up now. More women's profiles to come, promise... 1. What running shoes do you train in? ASICS 2140. 2. How many miles did you run last week? 75 (yippee!). 3. What's your favourite racing distance? Undecided, perhaps...

1. What shoes do you train in? ASICS. 2. How many miles did you run last week? 95. 3. What's your favourite racing distance? Marathon. 4. Where's your favourite place to train? Wild guess - endless laps of Dangan. 5. What's your favourite race or event each year? Dublin Marathon. 6. What annoys you...

1. What running shoes do you train in? ASICS 2120. 2. How many miles did you run last week? About 52 miles. I do most of my training by time as opposed to distance, but I think that would be quite close. 3. What's your favourite racing distance? 5K. 4. Where's you favourite place to train? On the...

1. What running shoes do you train in? Brookes Adrenaline GTS7, had to change from ASICS as kept getting a blister in exactly the same place no matter how many pairs I got through. 2. How many miles did you run last week? 17. 3. What's your favourite racing distance? Although I have only run one of...

1. What running shoes do you train in? ASICS Duomax. 2. How many miles did you run last week? 32 miles - week 4 of Hal Higdon's marathon programme. 3. What's your favourite racing distance? The 5k series back in may were pretty good. 4. Where's you favourite place to train? Good old Athenry on a...

1. What running shoes do you train in? Saucony Grid Hurricane 9. 2. How many miles did you run last week? 38. 3. What's your favourite racing distance? 10km. 4. Where's you favourite place to train? Dangan or Salthill. 5. What's your favourite race or event each year? Galway Bay 10m & Streets of...