It turned into a productive weekend for Athenry AC with the womens team taking first place in the Galway Bay Half Marathon on Saturday (pictured above with their manager) & no fewer than 13 medals being won in the Galway 10km Road Race Championships in Loughrea yesterday. In the Championships Ray...

While there was poor weather predicted for the day the rain cleared on time for the race. However, the strong winds did make a challenging run even tougher. From the time the gun went off there was strong competition between Martin McEvilly of Roscahill and Ballyconeely man Sean Nee. In the end...

The 2 nd outing of the Athlone Flatline Full & Half Marathon’s took place on Saturday in near perfect running conditions with no hint of wind or rain & mild temperatures. A top class field of just under 1000 people from across the country toed the line with some very impressive performances by...

There were some great perfomances by the Athenry runners in the Athlone Flatline Full & Half marathons on Saturday. A summary of both races & breakdown of times will follow shortly but for now Kieran Guiry has provided his race report on his brilliant PB in the half. After a few bad races earlier in...

YOU'RE GOING TO HEAR US ROAR Achill Roar Adventure Race 7th September 2013 So we landed in Keel Sandybanks Caravan Park, Achill Island, on a beautiful sunny Friday evening. We explored our surroundings and took in the breath-taking scenery; both nervous and excited with what lay ahead of us the next...

Pat Staunton and I travelled up from Westport in the morning arriving at the start/finish area at 7.20. The start/finish area was in a car park, it was very well set up with registration, support tables, music (blaring at 7.30am the organisers must get on well with their neighbours), and the start...

What an amazing all-day racing festival the Portumna Forest Marathon is turning out to be. Now it goes right through the day with the half marathon as an additional distance. First up on Sat was the 100k starting at 8am, next came the 50k at 10am, the marathon at 12, the half marathon at 2, and...

This past Saturday the 18th May saw the 3rd running of the Roundstone Bay 8K road race for the local RNLI Lifeboat Service. There was a good mix of local and visiting runners, with entrants from as far afield as UK, Germany and USA, and numbers were again up on previous years with just under 200...

The only thing missing from Loughrea on Tuesday night last (14 May 2013) was an ark but there were strong rumours that one was being warmed up down on the grey lake, less than half a mile away from the start/finish line. Galway Series 8.3 or #42 (Year 8, Race 3 or Race 42) was seamlessly organised...

I suppose the real story of the Limerick marathon is not so much about the great course, nice weather, or PB's but the injuries. It all started for most of us in January/ February as we set out on the long road to Limerick on those cold dark evening following our training plans: longs runs, tempo...

Two miles or so from Peacocks Hotel in Maam cross, all of 194 of us waited, watched, wondered at what the next few, or many, hours of hard running would bring, would we all survive the course, will we make it to the finish, will this, almost perfectly calm morning continue throughout the day to ease...

I couldn’t sleep. The butterflies in my tummy were circling like the Hitchcock film The Birds. Clock finally went off at 5.50 and I got up – wrecked. This was going to be a day I was never going to forget for the rest of my life. It was Connemara Ultra Marathon day at last. Weeks and weeks of...

by Martina Donnellan and Gearóid Rohan On a bitterly cold day, GCH men claimed 1st , 2nd & 3rd prizes in this year’s Colemanstown 10k. Last year’s winner Matt Bidwell from Galway City Harriers was first home again, in a time of 33:39; not quite as fast as his PB which he created on the same course...

Red Rag to A Bull! Angels and Demons Whilst I had always intended on running this race I hadn’t initially intended on racing it hard, with the focus more on the Half in Connemara, but over the last month I’ve felt I’ve been in good form so it would be a shame to waste it. The first edition of this...

Brilliant sunshine blessed the Kilconieron 5 Mile race on Sunday 24th February. It combined with a cooling wind to theoretically make a perfect day for running. However, judging by the pained expressions on runners' faces as they progressed up the hill near the end, maybe we need to revisit our...

Most memories of this race will concern the incline in the third mile and then facing into the teeth of a bitter, cold wind as we finished by running on the main road towards Oranmore. Somehow, despite higher temperatures than Tuam last week, this one felt harder and colder with rain and winds...

The Tuam 8k race in January is the long-established kick-off for running in the new year in Galway and a barometer for individual runners of where they stand in relation to fitness. (Officially it has been replaced by the excellent Resolution 5k but in practice that race is part of the festive...

The results of the Half, Full, 30M and Double marathon races from Sunday week last (18 November - same day as the Galway hurling Final) are to be found at redtagtiming.com: http://www.redtagtiming.com/results/EddieMurphyMemorial_30mi_26mi_13mi_2012.xls http://www.redtagtiming.com/results...

Photo: Assumpta Feeney, Michelle Tooher, Anne Hunter. By Michelle Tooher I’m not normally one for writing race reports – I love reading them though. However, post-marathon, I have been reflecting a lot on the weeks, months and years that led up to Marathon-Monday and I figured why not. I joined the...

The official count of Athenry AC runners at Dublin in 2012 is 50. An amazing number for a small town. Each runner is listed in categories below, First Timers, PBs, others. Many thanks to our supporters also: Eoin (Madden) and Aoife, Pearse Hunter, Floyd Feeney, Sharon Sweeney, Granny Noone and Ivor...

From Ruthann Sheehan, please see the attached PDF.

Athenry AC is looking in good shape for the Dublin Marathon judging by the three races at the weekend. The splurge of "last-minute" racing/ training brought 63 of our runners for the Athlone 3/4 race on Sunday and the Galway Half Marathon and 10k on Saturday. Actually that's 62, as one of those...

The annual Clifden Lifeboat 10k took place on Sunday in Clifden. The strong winds and rain predicted for the day did not materialise, leaving only Galway playing in the All Ireland Hurling finals as the only deterrent for would be participants. The route took the runners up the Sky Road and back to...

The annual Autumn Loughrea road race has a long and distinguished history. Sonia O'Sullivan ran there twice when it was a 5-miler with Paula Radcliffe joining her one of those years. Much further back in the early 1980s, Seb Coe beat Eamon Coughlin by the width of a singlet in a sprint finish when...

by Peter Delmer The Declan Hayes Doonbeg Half Marathon and 10k took place on Saturday in ideal conditions in the County Clare countryside – ok it was a little windy at times, but pretty ideal for a coastal route. From the start this event had that unique feel of a community coming together to make...