The First round of National League starts tomorrow. GCH men’s team is competing the Premier division. This is the pinnacle of domestic team track & field competition. The team preformed really well last year, making the final and coming a very respectable 6th.

This year, the team is hoping to do better. All our younger athletes are a year older, stronger and wiser. Our elite seniors are every bit as elite and we also have a lot of youth coming into team to strengthen it.

Galway City Harriers had 67 participants in the Craughwell leg of the 5k Series on Tuesday 21st May.

First home for the Men’s Race was Owen Byrne (Galway City Harriers) with a PB of 16:09, followed by Timmie Glavey (Mayo AC) in 16:26 with GCH’s Billy King coming 3rd in 16:32.

First place in the Ladies Race was Regina Casey of GCH in 18:29, Sinead Foran (Athenry AC) came in second place in 19:28, followed by Jane-Ann Healy (Athenry AC)in 3rd place in 19:35.

42 participants from GCH took part in the Loughrea leg of the 5k Series on Tuesday 14th May.

First home for the Men’s Race was Peter O’Sullivan (Loughrea AC) in 16:25, followed by Timmie Glavey (Mayo AC) in 17:02 and GCH’s Billy King in 3rd in 17:11.

The Athenry Ladies achieved all top 3 places in Ladies Race with Sinead Foran in first place in 19:36, followed by Margaret Flannery in 19:43 and Jane-Ann Healy in 20.09.

A list of the full results are attached below including the GCH participants.

GCH host our leg of the 2013 Galway 5k Series on Tuesday May 28 th at 8pm with a new venue of the Galway Racecourse.

There will be ample parking on the night –please use the Avenue Entrance to the Racecourse (Parkmore end) and follow the road all the way up and around to the large car park behind the Mayor’s Garden, following the instructions of any parking stewards on duty. The course itself is relatively straight forward.

The Great Limerick Run took place last Sunday May 5th 2013.

Congrats to Sinead Brody in the Half Marathon, wearing her GCH singlet for the first time came 6th in the ladies Half Marathon race in 1:32:32. And well done Donal Gill who also represented Friends of A on the day in 1.45.08 and new PB for Donal! Also running was Aoife Flanagan (2:04:37), Aisling McQuade (2:04:37), Audrey Flynn (2:12:29) and Ger Naughton (2:15:12).

The 2nd leg of the Galway 5K Series was held last night, Tuesday 7th May in Claregalway with 64 participants taking part from the Galway City Harriers.

Congrats to Billy King who came 2nd in the Men’s Race in 16:57 and Regina Casey of GCH who was the 1st lady home in 18:48

A list of all the GCH participants is attached below and for full results go to http://www.redtagtiming.com/

The Galway 5K Series kicked off last week on Tuesday 30th April in Athenry.

Galway City Harriers have 85 participants registered for the race and of that 76 took part in the Athenry Leg.
With the new fast course, there were new lots of new PB’s to kick start the series.

Congrats to Owen Byre of GCH who came 1st in the Men’s Race in 16:34 and Billy King of GCH who followed closely in 3rd in 16:43.

A list of all the GCH participants is attached below and for full results go to http://www.redtagtiming.com/

Congrats to everyone who took part in this year’s Craughwell 10 mile held on 24th March 2013.

GCH took home gold medals in both the Women’s and Men’s Team categories.

The GCH Men’s team comprised of Matt Bidwell, Chris McGrath, Sean Hanley and Dermot Lowe. And representing the GCH Women’s Senior Team was Regina Casey, Barbara Dunne, Jane Walsh & Breege McGrath.

There were also Individual Medal winners with Regina Casey taking home Gold and Barbara Dunne Bronze in the Women’s Senior Race.

In the MO40 Sean Hanley won Silver and Niall Murphy won Bronze.

Well done to everyone from the club who took part in this year's National 10k Championships in Phoenix Park on April 14th held in conjunction with the Great Ireland Run. The club was well represented with almost 30 members taking part in the event this year.

Congrats to Matt Bidwell who once again took 1st place victory in the M40 category in 33:36.

In the M35+ category GCH also took home first place with Matt Bidwell, Gerry Carty and Brian Bruton finishing in a total time of 1:46:54. Second was Tullamore Harriers Athletic Club in 1:52:02 and 3rd was Mayo Ac in 1:54:16.