Our friends at Athenry AC are again exercising their extraordinary race management skills later this month by hosting the National 10km Championships on April 20th.

GCH Women's team claimed Silver in the Tuam 8k, just behind winners Mayo AC. The placings of the club's first four athletes were counted for the team prizes. New members Carmel Brannigan and Rochelle Howell, who have recently joined GCH via the Fit4Life programme, were the 2nd and 4th GCH women home. Adrienne Walsh, making a welcome return to road racing, was the 3rd scorer. The team was led home by Regina Casey. The 1st four were closely followed by Brenda Gannon and Aine Harvey. Carmel and Adrienne also claimed 1st prizes in their categories with times of 35:44 and 39:29 respectively.

Following on the success of last year's strength and conditioning classes in Mervue Gym, James O Donnell is starting some more classes for the New Year. Details are as follows: Spinning classes beg. Mon 7th and Wed. 9th Jan at Aras na MacLeinn, NUIG at 7.30 for beginners and 8.45 for Improvers/Advanced. Weight training will commence on Thurs. 10th downstairs in Mervue Gym from 6.10 to 6.50. These will run for 10 weeks ending March 13th and the cost is 100 euro.(16 max in classes so early booking is advisable.)Further details from James at 087-6688677 or email personaltraining.james@gmail.com

Fit4Life Training resumes after the Christmas break on Tuesday 8th Jan. What better way to kick start the New Year than with a bit of exercise?

Well done to Don, Nicola, Carmel, Rochelle, Kristin, Gerard and Joseph who all ran in the Fields of Athenry 10K on St Stephens Day.

The next event to look forward to is a 5K walk-jog-run organised by our sister club Craughwell Fit4Life on Sunday 27th January at 1:00pm.This will be the first time for most of the Fit4Life members to take part in a road race and should be great fun. 5K is about 3 miles so don't panic it is well within everyone's capability.Pacers will be available on the day to help everyone achieve their personal goals, whatever they might be.

Do you want to get fit?

Do you want to go out and jog a few miles?
Do you want someone to give advice and guidance?
Maybe you just want a bit of company and a bit of craic as you run?
Whatever your reasons Fit4Life Meet an Train groups are here to help you.

What is Fit4Life?

Ever wondered what you could run for a mile? Well, here is your chance to find out. This Saturday 7th July a series of mile races will take place at the Regional Sports Centre, Dangan as part of a nationwide event - the SPAR Mile Challenge. Starting at 11:00am, people from all over the country will take part in mile races at 28 different venues nationwide. If you can crawl, walk, jog or even run 4 laps of a running track than this event is for you. There will be a series of races over an accurate 1 mile course on the sand track (around the hockey pitch) in Dangan and each finisher will have their performance timed.

Due to a few late cancellations, we now have 4 spare seats on the bus tomorrow, leaving Knocknacarra Church at 8am and Menlo Park Hotel at 8.30. Anyone is welcome to travel with us. Will be departing Dublin at 5.30. Cost is 20 euro. Ring me on 086-8036044 or email at maire.k@gmail.com.
Best of luck to all the ladies taking part tomorrow!

G.C.H. will host the final race of the Galway 5 km Series on Tuesday 28th May, at 8:00pm, at the NUIG sports grounds in Dangan. Registration will take place at the Sports Pavilion in Dangan. Changing facilities will also be available at the Sports Pavilion.

There has been great interest in this series from the Meet and Train again this year. Several members are in line for that much coveted T shirt, following a great response to the various 5k races over the month of May. Full participation for the four events already completed goes to Monenna Fitzgerald, Cora Grimes and Mary Mullins, while Sarah Kelly, Maire Kelly, Erika Joyce and Pearl McDonagh have each taken part in three and others as follows, Geraldine Fegan (2), Dolores Foley and Mary McCann (1).