Congratulations to Loughrea AC olympian Olive Loughnane who continued on from last years heroics in Beijing to finish fourth in the european cup for racewalking in Metz ,France.
This was a very credible performance for Olive as she competed in a field of top class opposition.Her finishing time was 1hour 34minutes and 52seconds and in this type of form she can look foward with confidence to the world championships to be held in Berlin next August.
Olive Loughnane 4th in Metz.
5 Km Series Tuesday 26th May 2009
Read carefully; please take heed
Registration is open to ALL on the night (5 euro‘s ) We are hoping for over 400 runners on the night
Car parking, please don’t park near Gael Scoil or start of the race. Lots of parking around the lake and other parts of Loughrea.
Registration is at the Gael Scoil between 7:00 to 7:45 and it WILL close at 7:45 sharp. Please wear your number on your FRONT.
NO number NO run marshals WILL remove you from the course no excuses!
If you forget your number please visit helpdesk beforehand in Gael Scoil.
5k Claregalway Race 4 Table
Summary of the 5k series so far
Number of Loughrea AC Members Per Race
Athenry 27
Tuam 19
Craughwell 29
Claregalway 24
14 Members have competed in all 4 races .2 Athletes have improved his and her time in each race Ange Walsh and Paul Keane with Marie Allen just missing out in Claregalway by 1 second .
Ange Walsh has improved her time by 1 minute 11 seconds and Paul Keane 48 seconds since the start of the 5k series, congrats to both.
Caroline Clancy was the first female to cross the line in a time of 18:50 and Darragh O'Brien came in 8th in a time of 17:21
St Brendans (Boys) N.S and St Ita's (girls) N.S win Manning primary schools event.
Seven local primary schools descended like a blue haze on Bushfield, the grounds of Loughrea athletic club with the aim of winning the Manning primary schools event. After all the events were completed (which included long jump,ball throw,100m,400m,600m 800m,and relays) St Brendan's boys school and St. Ita's girls school emerged as winners.There was huge excitement for those children competing and there seems to be plenty of young running talent around Loughrea.
Six to go for Jarlath.
Jarlath Fitzgerald completed marathons in Nashville, Tennessee and Hallsted, Essex recently.Battling high temperatures,fatigue and marathons coming in quick succession, Jarlath has hit a wall of sorts and is finding the going tough.
Despite this he remains determined to complete 100 marathons in 2009.Next up for Jarlath is Newry , Co Down on May 25th,followed by Cork on June 1st.He will have two months off and plans to run the inaugural Dingle marathon in September.This will be marathon number ninety seven,with 100 being ran in Barbados in December.
THREE DOWN, THREE TO GO!!!!
The increased numbers of club members taking part in the 5K series is due in no small way to the success of the FIT4LIFE programme. Well done to all concerned in promoting this project.
The times produced over the first 3 races has been very consistent and in many cases you can see an improvement from week to week.
Hopefully over the next 3 races we will see a further improvement--but remember---TAKING PART IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING!!!!
When the 5K series is over there will be lots of other road races.
So, HERE'S TO A GREAT SUMMER OF RUNNING!!
kilcornan 8km.
Loughrea athletic club's Fionnuala Keane,was the winner of the ladies section of the 8km race organised by the predator triathalon club last weekend.
The race which was held in the grounds of the brothers of charity,Kilcornan,Clarinbridge on Sunday,was mostly off-road with only about 700m on tarmac.This accounted for the slower than usual times.
Fionnuala's finishing time was 32 minutes 21 seconds.Fionnuala is now resident in Dublin, and it is to her credit that she still runs in the blue and yellow singlet of Loughrea.
