The full set of results including both track and field results can be found here It was a great day for the club, with fine performances across the entire age range of competitors, a big well done to all those who competed, juvenile and senior. From the results it appears that Athenry AC brought...
Please find attached programme for Galway Indoors on Sunday. Best of luck to all our juvenile members competing. Please arrive an hour before your event is due to start.
Another great race today around the streets of Galway City by Philip Harkin & his, crew which was well supported by our club as always. Full report to follow. Provisional result is here .
It deserves an article of its own. It has come to our attention that Frank Burke is back on the road after a year's (injury) enforced absence, after competing in today's Resolution Run 5KM in a very satisfying time of 20:07. A little birdie has told us that his last race was last year's Tuam 8KM...
Please find attached a PDF (5.51MB) of the race booklet which was available at the race for free. James. P.S. All previous booklets are stored in the following locations: 2013 booklet 2012 booklet 2011 booklet 2010 booklet 2009 booklet 2008 booklet 2007 booklet 2006 booklet 2005 booklet
As early morning dawned on the 26 th there were memories brewing of St Stephens Day 2012 when we nearly renamed our annual 10k ‘The Lakes of Athenry’ such was the volume of water on the course. With the temperature hovering just around the 2° coupled with a biting wind & torrential rain it was a day...
Ron Hill ran a few miles today to get to 50 years not out, running every single day in that time for at least one mile. A true legend of our sport! See the BBC article here on the 5KM event he ran today to complete the streak. Ron was In Galway at least once (probably twice) in recent times and a...
Despite a late push from the lobby for a pink hat, this year's hat for the Fields of Athenry 10km will be green. You still have a chance to enter online - Entries close late on 22 December - if not full already. Full details over at the dedicated race website .
Full provisional result attached. Congrats to all Athenry AC athletes who togged out and ran on what was a cold and quite windy early afternoon in Carnmore. Jane Ann Meehan won the women's race while Gearoid Rohan beat Ray Somers who beat Mick Rice in what looked to be a battle royale just ahead of...
AIT Baseline Indoor T&F Meet, Wednesday December 17 th , AIT, 7pm start. Athlone IT AC currently invites entries to the 2 nd annual ‘AIT Baseline Indoor T&F Meet’ from athletes looking to lay down a marker for the coming indoor season. This will be a low-key event where athletes will have the...
In honour of their father, who passed away earlier this year, the family of Tommy Madden have kindly donated two perpetual trophies for the first male & female winners of the Fields of Athenry 10km road race which is held every St Stephens Day in the town. To go along with that they have ordered...
With the 13 th edition of the Fields of Athenry 10km road race fast approaching, Athenry AC have announced that they will once again be partnering with the Athenry Tidy Towns Committee for their popular annual event. As previously, a portion of the proceeds of the race will go to supporting the...
A lovely day and a good turnout for the Clarenbridge 10KM, last Sunday, 23 November. Congrats to the organisers on an excellently-appointed race and one that the local running community have taken to their hearts in recent years. Athenry AC athletes all did themselves proud, including Jane Ann...
Congrats to all from Athenry AC who successfully competed on the day. We won the women's team prize while Jane Ann Meehan had a PB and was 5th finisher on what must be considered a very difficult course. The Garmin does not lie, see here . Mairead Sullivan & Marie Keary completed the women's team...
Results from the 49th running are attached.
Bernie Kelly and her crew in GCH celebrated 7 years of Fit4Life in our neighbouring club last evening (Thursday, 13 November) at Westside Library. Here's to the next 7, with Bernie continuing to lead from the back ;-)!
Hard luck to Mary Kealy on her 4th place in the Masters Women! Full results of both men's and women's league attached, as XLS.
After a week of torrential rain the race organisers were casting nervous glances at the forecast to see if waders would be the gear of choice for yesterday morning’s Athenry AC Fit4Life Charity 5k, but there was no need to worry as the morning dawned with some fantastically mild weather, perfect for...
Provisional results attached below.
Word has reached the AAC.com news desk of an incursion of Athenry AC athletes down into deepest West Cork and have taken away some valuable booty in the process. Congrats to Ray and Mairead!
Result from Connacht XC Day 1 @ Bushfield in Loughrea are attached. Congrats to all Athenry AC athletes who finished, let alone placed well, but especially Jane Ann Meehan who was second in the women's ace and Mary Kealy who had her first outing in Athenry AC colours there. Conditions had much...
Official Result now attached! Congrats to Bernie Mulryan who was second woman home and to Darragh McShane whose "home" race is this event and who was 8th on the road.
After a DCM 2013 that brought huge success for the club many members were turning up for this year’s edition of the Dublin City Marathon with lofty ambitions. But on a day that brought soaring temperatures (for October) & strong gusts, coupled with a new route that most people found taxing, those...
Apologies for the delay in this as I had web connection issues yesterday. A full report to follow but for now I've enclosed some reports from our members on this years Dublin City Marathon. Caroline Freeney: Delighted to now be a marathon runner, the atmosphere was fantastic as was the support. The...