Please find attached the results from the Connaught Indoors Competition that were held March 1 and 2 in Athlone. We wish all the Athletes that have qualified for the All Irelands on March 22 and 23 the very best of luck.
Nine Athenry AC members made the annual trek to Ballycotton over the weekend for their famous 10mile event. Lyall Guiney made the most of being back on home soil with a 59.26 to be first member home & bag himself a Top 100 t-shirt. Mick Rice was next home & just missed out on a t-shirt by 5...
Three Generations of Galway Athletics Launch Race Series http://www.5km.ie/ Galway’s Athletics Clubs came together at the Athenry Physiotherapy & Performance Clinic on Thursday night to launch the ‘Galway 5km Race Series’ for 2014. This hugely successful series of races, aimed mainly at new runners...
A short launch event for this year’s Galway 5km Series will take place on Thursday the 6 th of March 2014 in the New Health Centre in Athenry at 07:00pm, why not come along and get the inside scoop!! On the evening we’ll be joined by three very special guests representing three generations of Galway...
Athenry Juvenile AC Athletes had a very successful outing last weekend at the Connacht Indoor Championships 2014 held at Athlone International Arena. We had thirty juveniles competing across a range of age groups and they managed to bring home 18 medals betweeen them, including nine gold medals so...
Last Saturday saw the return of the brilliant Kinvara Rock & Road series of races in south Galway. Only in its fourth year, this race has firmly established itself as one of the most popular & well organised events west of the Shannon. With a sell out crowd of 1500 a big congratulations must be...
A full house turned out in Athlone this evening to witness a fantastic night’s athletics which saw three new stadium records and the star attractions Ashton Eaton, Brianne Theisen-Eaton and Tabarie Henry live up to their reputations. The Olympic decathlon gold medalist and world champion, Eaton, won...
Please find attached timetable for Connachts. Please arrive an hour before your event is due to start. Saturday March 1 is u12 to u15. Sunday U16 and older. Please remember your club singlets.
It was a day to dig deep! With a vicious headwind for much of the course this wasn’t a day for PB racing, it was a war of attrition. With recent club front runners Ray Somers (not racing) & Mick Rice (carrying an injury) taking it easy today, it was fair game for the rest of Athenry to stake a claim...
Best of Luck to all our juvenile athletes competing in the Connacht Indoors next weekend 1st and 2nd March at Athlone International Arena We had a great attendance at tonights training seessions in Athlone from both athletes and coaches- well done to all for making the effort and hopefully the...
Despite the incessant torrential downpours of late, the Sun gods have been smiling down on us for our weekends racing over the past few weeks. If only we could do something about the wind! A lovely sunny afternoon greeted the 174 runners who turned up in Gorgeous Gort for their 8k outing today...
The Irish National 50km Championships were held on a muddy but runable course in Donadea Forest Park this morning. Respresenting Athenry AC were David Noone, Valerie Glavin, Maeve Noone, Ed Egan & Siobhan Guinan who was making her first foray into ultra running. David Noone was first home of the...
After some recent weather more befitting Noah’s Ark, the annual Maree 8k couldn’t have been more different. Glorious sunshine & a headwind in sections greeted the 326 runners who turned out for the 5 th edition of this event. Matt Bidwell returned to the undulating course alongside Galway Bay to...
News is hitting Athenry that our very own Assumpta Feeney has won the Squat and Deadlift and came 3rd in the Bench at the Irish DrugFree Powerlifting Championships in Dublin today. These were the single lift championships and Assumpta was competing in the 70Kg SNR womens category. These results mean...
This weekend brings us the Maree 8k race sponsored by Amphibian King & hosted by Maree AC. A lovely out & back route around Maree & Tawin which skirts Galway Bay and has a few small hills which will test you. But don't let that phase you as it's still a fast course. And the spread after is not to be...
Three members of Athenry AC have at least one marathon under their belts even at this early stage of the year after Ruthann Sheahan, Valerie Glavin & Ed Egan completed the East of Ireland Marathon Series, Longwood Marathon last weekend. After easing herself back into training over the last couple of...
Kudos to the nearly 190 hardy souls who braved the elements for yesterday’s 2 nd annual Coldwood 4 mile race. Starting & finishing at the National School on the N6, the heavy winds didn’t prevent some decent racing with both the men’s & women's course records falling on the day. Jason Broderick was...
Athenry juvenile athletes enjoyed a very successful outing at the Galway indoor Athletics Championship held in Athlone IT International Arena last weekend (18 January). The first race of the day saw the Athenry U13 girls team, Aoibhe Deeley, Ciara McDonagh, Sinead Lyons, Saoirse Healey and Freya...
The sun shone long enough for most runners to finish today's race on a fine crisp afternoon for running the 10th Tuam 8km which was again hosted brilliantly by the Mongahans & all at Tuam AC today. First home was Paddy Hamilton of Annadale Striders in 24.21, 11 seconds off the course record which is...
Please find attached timetable for counties Saturday 18 in Athlone IT. Please arrive one hour before you event is due to start. The order of events will not change but depending on numbers the times may so it is important to arrive in plenty of time.
Those who ran in Craughwell before Christmas will not forget it in a hurry; neither will the few spectators who braved the elements that day! A provisional result is attached below (thanks to Tony Nevin). The image here says it better than any of my words could (Ed Egan, Ruthann Sheahan, Valerie...
Well who knew Shop Street was so steep! A race that, only in its fourth year, has already become a staple in many people’s racing calendar’s, today’s Resolution Run 5km was another well organised race from Tony Killarney & his band of merry helpers. After basking in sunshine last year the weather...
It’s not too often that you get the chance to race down Shop Street in Galway (Unless it’s Saturday night & you have a few pints on you) but the 5km Resolution Run gives you that chance. Taking place at the Spanish Arch at 1.00pm on New Year’s Day what better way to start off the New Year & kick...
Firstly, our apologies for the delay in getting this report & attached photo links uploaded. Between a series of electricity & broadband outages in the Athenry area due to the recent storm we were unable to get this sorted earlier. It’s ‘As you were’ at this year’s 12 th edition of the Fields of...
Please find attached a PDF (9.32MB) of the race booklet which was available at the race for free. James. P.S. All previous booklets are stored in the following locations: 2012 booklet 2011 booklet 2010 booklet 2009 booklet 2008 booklet 2007 booklet 2006 booklet 2005 booklet