Pictured above: Martina Fahy who produced a personal best performance of 22:02 in the Maree 5km on Wednesday Report by Deirdre Hasset, Athenry AC and Boston Scientific The second Boston Scientific 5km charity race took place last Wed. 22nd July in Maree. This year the nominated charity benefiting...

On a day when most people in Mayo & Galway were going to or watching the Connacht Football Final the inaugral Tooreen 8k Fun Run/Walk took place. Just under 20 runners and walkers made their way to the start line wondering would they get back to the clubhouse before the next downpour! Shortly after...

The Athenry AC Handicap 10KM AKA "Burger Run" was a huge success last Friday evening around our old 10KM course (start & finish at St. Mary's GAA ground in Carnaun). A beautiful evening and 32 willing competitors. All had to give their estimated finish times beforehand and then run blind i.e...

Pictured above, race organiser David Huane. Photo Credit: John O'Connor Inaugural Ballindine Handicap 4 Mile Race On the 12th July 2009 in the pretty Mayo village of Ballindine, 74 runners and walkers stepped up to the line for the first ever Handicap 4 Mile Race. Some of the most talented athletes...

The Headford 8km attracted its largest ever entry last Saturday evening despite mixed weather. Results are now available at http://www.headford8k.com/ As expected the race went off without a hitch and the facilities on offer at the local GAA club were superb. Once again Regina Casey and Gerry Ryan...

Three fantastic night's of track-based action in Dangan - what more could you ask for? Great credit for the ongoing success of the re-vamped Galway Track and Field Championships has to go to Paul McNamara, Regional Development Officer for the AAI in the West of Ireland. All of the Galway Athletics...

Final results are in from the Independence Day on the Bay 5KM... Congrats to Miriam Wall for coming second in the Senior Woman's event! *Final Results of the inaugural Independence Day at the Bay 5K* Pos Num Time Name Club Category 1 180 16:30.7 Matthew Lockett GCH Senior Man 2 11 17:05.1 George...

Galway Woman's Mini-Marathon (GWMM) - http://www.galwaysimon.ie/news.asp?ID=59 1st Anne Marie Higgins (Tuam AC) 40.23 2nd Elaine Walsh (Athenry AC) 40.33 - well done, girl! 3rd Eimear Butler (Unknown) 41.22 They each won 12 month memberships to the NRG gym in Galway. See attached PDF with a full...

Provisional race result plus prize list from last Saturday's race is below and attached in the various formats! *Provisional* Results of the Ballyhaunis 8K Road Race '09 Pos Num Time Name Club Category 1 56 00:25:03 Gerry Ryan GCH M 2 37 00:25:59 Robert Malseed Mayo M 3 44 00:26:26 John Byrne Mayo M...

A huge crowd of well over one thousand runners and walkers turned out for the Clare 10k in Ennis this morning with many of those taking part raising funds for one charity or another. There was a great atmosphere at the start area with organisers, fun-runners, walkers, fundraisers, and club runners...

Full result from Last Sunday's 10KM is enclosed in TXT, DOC, XLS and PDF format - one for everyone in the audience, almost...

Provisional Results from Sunday's 10KM in Annaghdown are below and attached. If you weren't there, you missed a great event with Athenry AC being very well represented throughout the field. Brian Bruton was third senior man while Elaine Walsh was third senior woman. Miriam Wall picked up her second...

I was very sorry to miss my 'home' race on Friday evening last. Personally I was very gratified that a number of clubmates of mine as well as Bernie Kelly of GCH made the long journey down to enjoy a real country road race and also to remember that great road running stalwart - and Leeds United fan...

Thanks to Bernie Kelly, GCH for following up and obtaining a full result from the recent Roundstone 5M Road Race... SRC IRELAND RACE 24th MAY 2009 Position Name Time 1 Ian Egan 29.14 2 Graham Jones 29.33 3 John Devlin 30.20 4 Mark Breen 31.17 5 Damien Ridge 32.39 6 Colman Greene 32.54 7 Ian Haigh 33...

Provisional results from the Loughrea 5km now available at http://www.athleticsloughrea.com/node/123 Another week and another great 5km race to enjoy. As someone said to me in Loughrea last night, "We don't realise how 'spoilt' road runners are in Galway". It certainly was a great night for running...

Carramore 10k: l-r Ann Lennon (Mayo AC) 1st o35, race winner Catherine Conway (Mayo AC), 2nd place Lucy Brennan (Sligo AC) - Photo: Tom Hunt (Mayo AC) Carramore hosted their annual 10k Road Race last Saturday evening. The rain held off for the duration and the race was a great success, with a large...

In this age when everyone is running to try and beat their times at various distances (especially during the Galway 5km series) it was a refreshing change when we found out that the timing machine was not able to provide runners times during the event! Last Sunday saw the first run based around the...

Another absolutely beautiful evening in Craughwell was a gift from heaven for Galway 'fitness freaks' last night. The small roads that suround the beautiful East Galway town were thronged with cotton and lycra clad runners and walkers of all varieties. It was quickly clear that there would be a...

Results: 1 Kenneth Rodgers St Cronans 33 : 48 2 Cathal Kelly St Finbarrs 35 : 25 3 Keith White St Johns 36 : 19 4 Pat Hogan Ennis Track O/40 36 : 24 5 David Mullins Tuam O/40 36 : 25 6 Christopher Kuluvic Austria 37 : 21 7 Domhnaill Rodgers St Cronans 38 : 45 8 Alan Hehir Tulla 39 : 06 9 Tom Mackey...

Tuam Results Files Updated 07-05-09 What do you think. Would we get away with calling that another fine dry evening for a race in the Galway 5km series? As usual the race organisation was flawless in Tuam - we even had a camper van for number pick-up. Now that's posh! Brendan, Patricia, Rory and the...

On of the most underappreciated jobs in race organisation, because it's a hidden role I think, is the one of preparing a race result. It happens when all of the excitement has died down after the event and often in the dead of night with many people anxiously awaiting confirmation of their fantastic...

Hard to know where to start but I'll try and keep things brief at the same time! It was a great honour for myself and Athenry AC to have 375 out in Newcastle yesterday evening for the first race of the 4th year of this ever-successful Galway 5KM May Series. It was also the series' 16th race in the...

The first Magic Mile held this this evening in Dangan was a big success. Over 80 people toed the line in a series of 8 races, blessed with good weather and a dry track. A big thank you to everyone who took part, and especially to the many volunteers who gave up their time to help out this evening...

Results: http://www.ballinasloe.com/content/view/1093/187/ Photos: http://www.ballinasloe.com/photos/v/ballinasloe_events/ballinasloe_10k_Run_Walk/ http://www.ballinasloe.com can be very slow and even inaccessible on occasion!

Full results attached as TXT and DOC files from RaceMaster98. Congratulations to all the Athenry AC athletes who finished, especially Martin Keane who probably "won" the M65 category. I understand that the man is burning up the roads out around Rathmorrissey and Derrydonnell in preparation for the...