Another Great Night Out At The ‘Streets’

Galway City Harriers hosted another superb edition of their flagship ‘Streets of Galway’ 8km Road Race under the sponsorship of FUTUR€. It was a perfect evening for running and there was a huge contingent of Athenry AC runners taking part.

Record Numbers of Athenry Runners

The Maroon and White Team Before The Race

An incredible SIXTY EIGHT Athenry AC singlets passed under the finish line on the night, which was a huge vote of confidence in the race from the Athenry membership. A full breakdown of the Athenry AC finishers and their times is given below for your delectation. Full results are at http://www.galwaycityharriers.com/juvenile-information/streets-galway-2009-team-results-prizewinners. When all of the running was done many of the Athenry runners retired to the 'Al Muretto' Italian restaurant to refresh themselves with good food and talk of races to come.

Some Photos Available from Paudie Birmingham

Alan Burke, or, Mr.Chairman to you pal ...!

Whilst we’re all waiting for John O’Connor’s photographic art to arrive online, some fine photographs of the race, like the one above, have been posted online by photographer and runner Paudie Birmingham. Paudie tells me that while he ran, his wife took the pictures – surely a marriage made in heaven. Check them out at the URL below. If you would like one of the digital originals just email me and Paudie has said he’ll email them on through me without any problem. Thanks Paudie!

http://www.runningpictures.blogspot.com/

A Good Night For Our Fit4Life Group

Happy Faces Before The Race

Great credit is due to the many Athenry Fit4Life group who took on the challenge of the race for the first time and came through flying the Athenry colours. There was something special about seeing so many happy faces in maroon and white singlets at the starting line.

Brian Bruton was the first Athenry man home, posting a superb time of 26:55 for 14th place. Brian has had his share of injury problems over the last 12 months and it was amazing to see him run so well and post such a strong personal best performance. First woman home in Athenry colours was the irrepressible Jane-Ann Healy who has been pounding the track in Dangan for many weeks now and it has obviously paid dividends.

Brian Bruton - A Fantastic Result

When the numbers were crunched and the results were produced it was tremendous that the Athenry Women’s team had claimed the top spot in that division. Jane Ann Healy, Elaine Walsh and Eimear Butler edged out GCH and Raheny Shamrocks to claim top spot. The men’s trio of Brian Bruton, Mick Rice and Alan Burke took third place in the men’s competition, this time behind Raheny Shamrocks and GCH. As far as I know this is the first occasion that Athenry AC have featured amongst the prize winners in either the men’s or women’s team competition and so it is an impressive achievement for both teams to make a breakthrough this year.

Mick Rice also picked up first spot in the men’s over 40 division.

Number 1 !!!!!

Aside from those taking part and supporting runners there were also a small number of Athenry members who worked on the race as volunteers and their contribution did not go un-noticed. It’s always a treat to have a race volunteer shout ‘Come On Athenry!” as you pass by.

James and Sally

Everyone at Athenry AC wants to pass on their congratulations to the race organisers in Galway City Harriers on producing another fine race and we hope they’ll join us next St. Stephen’s Day in Athenry when we hope to return the compliment as hosts for the day.

14 Brian Bruton 26:55

20 Mick Rice 27:28

32 Alan Burke 28:40

43 Conor Dolan 29:00

XX Darragh McShane 29:30

72 Larry Kelly 30:07

80 Daniel Kavanagh 30:22

82 Michael Rooney 30:32

85 Owen Curran 30:36

86 John O'Connor 30:42

87 Lyall Guiney 30:37

90 Mark Breen 30:44

109 Jane-Ann Healy 31:25

117 Elaine Walsh 31:42

140 Eimear Butler 32:19

153 Gary Doherty 32:31

176 Ray O'Connor 33:04

177 James Lundon 33:05

199 Deirdre Hassett 33:31

223 Jeff Noone 34:05

237 Valerie Glavin 34:20

243 Miriam Wall 34:22

262 Mark McDonagh 34:31

295 Peter Strange 34:56

334 Enda Munnelly 35:19

336 Mark Campbell 35:15

397 Martina Fahy 36:18

484 Edward Egan 37:15

491 Breege McGrath 37:02

505 Peter Lowney 37:26

557 Oonagh Walsh 38:11

579 Patrick Murphy 37:33

587 Deirdre Quinn 37:58

595 Grainne Breen 38:40

618 Sinead Goaley 39:02

657 Liam Mycroft 39:10

740 Brid Moran 40:12

743 Debbie Flynn 39:50

768 Siobhan Keane 40:24

874 Martin Keane 41:22

968 Assumpta Feeney 42:12

989 Anne Hunter 42:30

990 Ita Carter 43:11

1041 Bridget Anne Walsh 43:19

1044 Guenael Trahan 43:17

1054 Cathal McLaughlin 43:00

1055 Yvonne Keary 43:02

1071 Noreen McNamara 43:39

1078 Maria Long 42:44

1083 Maria Hehir 43:46

1100 Pearse Hunter 43:42

1196 Nicola Condon 44:19

1198 Martin Casserly 44:21

1223 Elaine Quinn 44:41

1232 Liam Egan 44:51

1283 Maura Lydon 45:26

1526 Anne Lyng 50:17

1536 Fiona Lane 49:02

1557 Orla Keady-Giblin 49:33

1598 Ashla Ward 51:01

1611 Mary Furey 51:42

1616 Aine Ni Chuill 50:57

1692 Frances Egan 52:59

1792 James Corbett 57:02

1794 Aisling Murray 56:05

1857 Camilla Glynn 59:10

1895 Jennifer O'Reilly 1:02:14

1968 Aisling Murphy 1:24:43