Athletics Ireland’s Christmas Wishes for 2020
Athletics Ireland would like to wish all of our Clubs, County Boards & Members a Safe and Merry Christmas. We are looking forward to seeing everyone in the new year! Highlights from 2020… Roll on 2021…
Author: Ardee District
❤️OUR JUVENILES ARE SIMPLY WONDERFUL…
On the morning of November 21st in the warm autumn sun our Juveniles took up the AAI Cross Country Club Challenge. They’ve been working hard these past three weeks improving their times in preparation for today’s final challenge. To add an incentive for these young athletes we pinned race numbers, awarded club medals...
Autumn Running – Dublin City Marathon 2020…
WOW, Super running from our club today, October 25th. 18 members took to the roads running in many directions looping our beautiful town on this sunny autumn morning. 15 of them took on the challenge of completing the KCB Dublin virtual Marathon and Half Marathon. A Massive congratulations to Roy Crawley, Peter Carolan,...
2020 Juvenile Cross Country Championships
A massive well done to Alfie O’Sullivan who ran up an age in the U10 Louth Cross Country Championships in Newtownstalaban on October 4th. He was outstanding. And congratulations too to Oran Lynch and Max O’Sullivan also running up an age and taking on the challenge of completing the U12 2000m race. Also...
2020 Louth Novice Cross Country Championships
Finally, a competition that isn’t virtual… On October 4th in Newtownstalaban 10 of our members enjoyed what is reportedly one of the fastest Louth, Novice Men and Women’s Cross Country Championships ever! Competing for our club were Annemarie Dillon, Kate Moonan, Michelle Lynch and Belinda Rogers for the Women’s Team and Tony Finegan,...
Virtual running across the World…
Congratulations to these three fantastic members who virtually ran across Tennassee, from Malin to Mizen and the streets of London… Michael Pentony completed 1000km in the Great Virtual Race across Tennessee; Brian Duff completed 600km in the Malin to Mizen Virtual Challenge and Barry Reid completed the London Virtual Marathon today making that...
VHI virtual Women’s Mini Marathon
Congratulations to these fantastic members, Belinda Rogers, Michelle Lynch and Kate Moonan who completed the VHI virtual Mini Marathon today. Boy were they eager! competitors who signed up for this race have between the 1st and 10th of October to run it… Good on ya Ladies, well done
Stan’s the Man – one of Ardee’s greatest Sportsmen.
Remembering a fantastic achievement of one of Ardee’s greatest sportsmen, STAN WOODS. 35 years ago running for the Irish Team he came 17th overall obtaining an impressive personal best of 2:22:10 at The Glasgow Marathon in Scotland. ‘Stan’s the Man’, never too far away, he still keep’s an eye on us at Ardee...
A trail run in the sun through beautiful Ravensdale…
By 7.30am on Sunday, September 27th 10 Early Birds were running the 13k & 21k trail loops in Ravensdale. It was simply too nice to stay in bed… No competition except for the ‘Picnic Bake Off’ at the end! – Delicious… we not only run, we bake too Well done Everyone, an inspiration...
Running a 100K for The Mater Foundation…
Congratulations to these wonderful members who took on the Mater Foundation Challenge to run 100K in the month of August. All three completed the challenge and more. Well done Allison, Emma and Fiona.