GCH had a good outing on Saturday night at the Claregalway 10k. The County 10k championship was run in conjunction with the race and both the Men's and Women's GCH teams won. Rob Staunton won the race outright with Tony Scanlan 2nd. Helen Corbett continues to make massive improvements every time she dons the racing shoes. Gerry Carty, Bernie Kelly and Margaret Sheridan all enjoyed the opportunity to race locally, after being on the organisational side instead for the Streets. The full results are at: http://www.redtagtiming.com/, and the GCH results are here:
County Gold Men's team:

The winners of our bonus prizes for the best performance on the night, using the World Masters Association Age Grading tables, are David Rooney and Maria McCambridge. Young athlete David still manages to beat the field though veteran Martin McEvilly is not far behind. The men's top 10 also has Eugene Moynihan, Damien Martin and Sean Doyle in there too. The women's table has less of a shake-up, looking very similar to the official prizewinners, but with positions interchanged. Here's the top 10 men and top 8 women:
The Men
David Rooney Senior Raheny Shamrocks AC 00:23:55
Martin McEvilly M60 Galway City Harriers AC 00:24:07

Men's Team
1. Raheny Shamrocks AC, 27 (1,4,8,14) - David Rooney, Cillian O'Leary, Simon Reede, Damien Martin
2. Galway City Harriers AC, 52 (5,12,15,19) - Matthew Bidwell, Robert Staunton, Tony Scanlan, Barry Davey
Women's Team
1. Sportsworld RC, 198(55,66,77) - Aoife Brady, Crona Brady, Lucy D'Arcy
2. Raheny Shamrocks AC, 203 (33,56,114) - Patrycja Wlodarczyk, Aoife Talty, Annmarie Hickey
Senior Men
1. David Rooney Raheny Shamrocks AC 00:23:57
2. Sergiu Ciobanu Clonliffe Harriers 00:24:17

The full results of the National League Round 2 T&F competitions in Athlone and Santry are now up on the AAI website at: http://www.athleticsireland.ie/content/?page_id=160. Galway City Harriers will compete in the Division 1 final on Saturday 14th of August. GCH finished second on points in the qualifiers to Ferrybank with Tallaght, Sligo and Kilkenny City Harriers in hot pursuit.

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.