Well as you all know I have done very little running for the last year. On Tuesday the 25th of August I was in so much pain with my back and left hip and pain going down my leg. I thought I would never run again. I thought I would never walk straight never mind run!!!!! But, thank God, I went to a...
Find enclosed as good a visual report(!) of a marathon as you are ever likely to see. I met Maurice the day after Cork in the Westwood Hotel after the Dangan leg of the Galway May 5KM series and happened to flick through the Cork Marathon programme he had with him. He had just annotated the centre...
Lyall's three recent reports say more than I ever could so the URL is all you need It's an easy one to remember too! http://www.lyallguiney.com Great work!
Well done to Mick Rice, 1st and Valerie Glavin, 3rd, who competed in the Connemara 100 on Saturday 15th August. Full results and race reports will follow in due course. Here are some photos of the competitors. There are 35 photos in all: that was a long trail. http://www.flickr.com/photos/39856927...
The Gobi March is a 250km self-sufficient endurance race across the Gobi Desert. This year the event was located along the ancient Silk Road in the remote Kizilsu Kirghiz Autonomous Prefecture in the Xinjiang Province of Western China. As this is a restricted area, special permits for competitors...
Race Report from Elizabeth Murphy All pictures are by local freelance photographer Corrine Beattie Ballina fit4life ran a very successful 10k fun run for runners, joggers and walkers on Thursday evening 16th July as part of the Ballina Salmon Festival programme. 125 participants crossed the start in...
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...
Race report from Miriam Wall from This Year's Kilkee Triathlon Photo Credit - Gordon Thompson - More of Gordon's great photographs can be viewed at http://www.flickr.com/photos/gordon_thomson/sets/72157620449653985/ For those of you not familiar with the triathlon scene the ‘Hell of the West’ or the...
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...