Full, Half & Relay
Strokestown, Co. Roscommon on 24th July

http://thebogtrottersmarathon.ie
www.bothar.org

The Bogtrotter's Marathon is a new marathon event taking place in Strokestown, Co. Roscommon on 24th July for runners /walkers of all abilities. It includes a full, half and relay marathon and goes from Strokestown to Rooskey and back on the minor roads and bog tracks.

Killaloe Pink Ribbon 10K Run/Walk
Killaloe/Ballina, Co. Clare on 19th June

http://www.killaloepinkribbonwalk.com

The Inaugural Killaoe pink ribbon walk will be held on June 19th 2010 in the beautiful villages of Killaloe/Ballina, Co. Clare.

It's a wrap...

The final race of the Galway 5K series for 2010 was held in Dangan last night resulting in another cracking evening of racing. Our own club put on a grand finale over a new and less familiar, single loop circuit, with overall results and race summary linked here.

Based on the provisional results-set, times for GCH participants have been extracted to the attached PDF document.

The penultimate stage of the Galway 5K series for 2010 was held at Loughrea tonight, in glorious, summer sunshine.

Loughrea AC put on another great show as they again tested us on their now familiar 5K route.

Based on the provisional results-set, times for GCH participants have been extracted to the attached PDF document. Once again, any errors or ommissions can be highlighted to galwaycityharriers@gmail.com and we will address same ASAP.

The 4th annual Annaghdown 10K summer solstice run will follow the calendar again this year and takes place on Monday, 21st June at 7:30pm starting from Annaghdown national school.

This is another great race on the local calendar and deserves our support. It is run over a nice fast course, on quiet tree-lined country roads and finishes with a long sweeping descent to Annaghdown pier. The brave and the foolhardy usually cool down afterwards with a dip in the water at the pier.

And so the rain came to the 5K series. We probably deluded ourselves 3 weeks ago in Athenry by claiming that the evening had dried up before the racing commenced, and last week in Craughwell sure weren't we all home and hosed before it really came wet. Tonight was a different bag of cats altogether. It was (very) wet all evening around Galway, what could be described as a soft Irish summer's evening. Thankfully, the road-runner is a hardy species and almost 450 athletes braved the miserable conditions to run on the now familiar, but always challenging Claregalway circuit.

Christine Kennedy set an age group record in the Bloomsday 2010 12KM run on 2nd May with a time of 48:22. The previous record of 51:18 had stood for 15 years. More details of the race are at: www.bloomsdayrun.org.

Meanwhile, GCH had two competitors in the Connemara Adventure Challenge. Colm O'Maille and Cormac O'Connor. Colm finished in 2.58.50 and Cormac finished in 2.57.08.

Once more into the breach for the Galway 5K race-series, as this spectacular roadshow of racing descended on an overcast and then damp Craughwell last night. Again, much thanks is due to all in Craughwell AC for hosting another great race on the local athletics calendar.

Based on the provisional results-set, times for GCH participants have been extracted to the attached PDF document. Once again, any errors or ommissions can be highlighted to galwaycityharriers@gmail.com and we will address same ASAP.

Updated with a cleaner set of GCH times for the series to date (see attachment). There are photographs from the Tuam 5K available on the Athenry AC web-site compliments of race-series coordinator Mick Rice - enjoy!

Galway 5K race-series action continued in Tuam again last night. The weather gods were back on our side this week, and a fine evening led to some great times on a fast new course. Many thanks to all in Tuam AC for hosting another great evening of road-racing in county Galway.

Updated with some final adjustments and additions. Of the 173 GCH athletes registered for the series, 131 ran in Athenry on Tuesday last.

The Galway 5K race-series got off to a flying (if somewhat damp) start for 2010 last night in Newcastle, Athenry.

Athenry AC were once again superb hosts and ensured that the first leg of the series went off in a smooth and relaxed fashion. It's great to see a couple of small improvements (e.g. chip-timing this year) introduced year-on-year. Well done and many thanks to all concerned.