The organisers have kindly allowed us to post some information about their race on our little web site here. Check out their web site here . The entry form and course map are attached to this article.

My (James Lundon) own running year in numbers: Miles 1012.51 Days 157 Hours 126:45:17 Pace 7:31 Races 29 Made up of the following: Date DistM Time Race 02/01/2006 4.97 0:32:05 Tuam 8KM 10/01/2006 1.00 0:05:29 HP Winter Series #3 21/02/2006 1.00 0:05:16 HP Winter Series #5 05/03/2006 10.00 1:05:40...

Would you like to get an early taste of the Connemara Marathon course? This year’s official race is of course a sell-out but a group of Athenry runners intend to run the course on Saturday February the 10th next as a prelude to the big event. We’ve done this a few times before, most recently a year...

Hot off the Connemarathon web site! "The Organisers of the Connemarathon are delighted to announce that the event is, once again, a sellout. Online Entries for the event close next Tuesday, 23rd January at 12:00 noon, while postal entries will be accepted up until first post on Wednesday morning...

NUI Galway in conjunction with Sports Med West will host a Strength and Conditioning sports conference on Saturday 13 January 2007 in the Dangan Sports complex. Dr. Pat O’Neill, incoming Dean of the Irish College of Sports Medicine, will open the proceedings. International speakers on the day will...

The County Galway Indoor Athletics Championships will take place next Saturday the 6th of January in Nenagh, Co. Tipperary. Events kick off at 10:30am with the senior 3,000m for seniors. A full programme of athletic events for all age groups follows. The Tuam 8k Road Race will take place on the 14th...

By James Sexton The 13th European Cross Country Championships in Italy has a new Mens Cross Country Champion for the first time since 2001 with Mo Farah Britain taking the title after five years of dominance by the Ukraine’s Sergie Lebid. The best of the Irish athletes was Mark Kenneally Clonliffe...

For the fifth successive year runners have the opportunity to partake in the John Buckley Sports/Munster Ten-Mile Spring Classics Series as the four races in the area from January to April combine forces in this unique Series.In the cycling world, the 'Spring Classics' are an integral part of the...

The Galway County Board of the AAI have announced the men’s novice team which has been entered for the upcoming novice AAI Cross Country Championships which take place at Athlone IT on the 9th of December next. The juvenile events commence at 12.00pm with the women's novice scheduled for 2.15pm &...

Injuries are one of the most frustrating things any runner can have to deal with and getting good professional help can be difficult. Runners in the West will now have access to a service run by a fellow runner and massage therapist with over twenty years competitive experience behind him. Ian Egan...

The Galway County Board of the AAI has announced the following mens senior team as their selections for the forthcoming Inter Counties Cross Country in Dungarvan Co.Waterford on Sunday the 25th of November. Paul McNamara Athenry AC Ruadhri Geraghty GCH Ian Egan GCH TJ Whyte Tuam AC Brian O'Connor...

Rory Brennan from Tuam, and a very good friend of the club, is due to appear on Winning Streak this coming weekend. We in Athenry AC wish him the very best of luck and hope that he 'runs' back to Tuam with lots of money in his back pocket, if only to stock up on his dwindling supply of Red Bandanas...

Cross Country 2005 McMahon Galvin Novice Cross Country Championship of Ireland 2006 Saturday 9th Dec 2006 Athlone Institute of Technology Novice Women 3000m 1:15pm Novice men 6000m 1:35pm We can enter a club team and there is also an intercounty team. Men's and Women's club team: 8 to run, 4 to...

The Western Region Cross Country mens and womens Intermediate and Masters Championship races for 2006 were held in Dangan, Galway yesterday the 5th of November. After a strong program of juvenile races incorporating the Western Region even-ages races for boys and girls, the adults had their turn on...

The Galway AAI Annual General Meeting will take place in Kinsella’s, Loughrea, on Tuesday 14th November starting at 8.30pm. The main items on the agenda will be reports from the various officers and the election of officers for 2006 and motions. Motions can be put forward on the night. Each club is...

Not to be forgotten in the post-marathon madness are the upcoming cross country races this weekend in Dangan. Sunday the 5th of November will see a full program of races comprising of the U12/14/16/18 Connaught Cross Country Championship races as well as the adult Intermediate and Master...

Bernie Meaney Memorial 32nd Annual St Marys 5k Road race at Kilmurry Mc Mahon Co Clare 30-10-2006. Results. 1. Eugene Moynihan Marian 16 : 06 2. Tim O’Connor Riocht 16 : 19 3. Donal Howley Kilmurry Ibk./North Clare 16 : 23 4. Martin Corcoran Loughrea O/40 16 : 28 5. Mike Solan Tulla O/40 16 : 58 6...

Congratulations to friend-of-the-club Enda Doley on his excellent 29th place in the Amsterdam half a few weeks ago. You can see him finishing the race really strongly here . And view his final placing here . Also similar footage of Rolls-Royce Ray O'Connor finishing his marathon here or along with...

Following in the footsteps of James Lundon Last week [but not during the race of course!] Mick Rooney collects his hard won medal earned at the County Galway Cross Country. Well Done Mick, the first of Many medals, we hope.

"Men, today we die a little." Emil Zatopek at the start of the 1952 Helsinki Olympic Marathon Many people have interpreted Zatopek's words in 1952 to be some sort of macho statement about the pain and suffering which would inevitably be involved in the race to come. To speak them he had stood ahead...

National Cross Country Uneven Ages and Novices - Changes Announced Word has reached us that both the date and venue previously announced for the National Cross Country Uneven Ages and Novice Championships have been changed. Instead of Dundalk on the 10th of December these races will now be held in...

Athenry Men's Team Minus The Photographer James Lundon The Galway men’s senior, intermediate, novice and masters cross country championships took place yesterday in Tuam and all were decided as part of a single race. This innovation along with a superly laid-out course in the heart of Tuam went...