Ardee & District A.C.
August 2019 August 2nd – Beginning the Bank Holiday Weekend a few of our members headed to the beautiful village of Carlingford and thoroughly enjoyed themselves at Glenmore AC’s Michael Fearon & Kevin Marron Carlingford 5k. Before the main race the kids took to the roads. Well done to Oran Lynch who finished...
The summer is in full swing and between the holidays our members headed to many races near and far… July 14th – Bright and early in the beautiful sunshine Barry Reid completed his 21st Marathon from Killybegs to Glencolmcille along the picturesque coastline of Donegal – The Wild Atlantic Way. Congratulations Barry and...
Our Seniors we busy in June from Marathons to Road Races and Track & Field Competition… June 2nd – You’d never know where our members might pop up… In Dublin this afternoon, Michelle Lynch ran the VHI Women’s Mini Marathon in an impressive time of 51:06 (unofficial), while up north and completing his...
May has been an exciting month for our club and a very busy time for all our athletes. It began on the bank holiday where 22 of our seniors happily ran that extra distance in the 2019 controversial Belfast Marathon (see separate report) which was soon followed by the turn of our juveniles...
WHAT FUN OUR CLUB HAD ON THIS LOVELY MAY BANK HOLIDAY WEEKEND. May 5th – Well done to Leo Farrell, (42:19) Ben Corccan (46:53) and Dave Symmons (48:26) who ran the Yapstone Drogheda 10k.. A tough course but wonderful atmosphere and well run event. Well done lads. Leo Farrell and Ben Corcoran. Dave...
The Belfast City Marathon May 5th 2019 – 22 Ardee & District AC members headed to Belfast today. All were simply fantastic. We had 3 relay teams and 7 marathon runners. Our marathon runners were Nathan Anderson, Paul Barns, Brian Duff, David Tyhuis, Kevin Carroll, Gearoid Harvey and Ronan O’Sullivan. Our relay teams...
April 6th – And what a lovely evening for a run. Congratulations to our members who thoroughly enjoyed the Patsy Kelly 5K in Dundalk. Roy Crawley 23:22; Aidan Dunne 23:44; Aidan Mooney 26:26; Tracey McCarron 27:51 and son Jack 19:41 and the McGuinness Family, Trudi 31:50, Hazel 24:49, Tara 23:20, Niamh 28:02 and...
March 2nd – The cold, wet and windy weather didn’t stop some of our athletes from competing today. Great running at the Carlingford Half Marathon & 10k from Róisín Whyte (52:58) and Ben Corcoran (48:44). “It was a tough course, uphill for the first 5k but very enjoyable with only one lesson to be...
February 23rd – Well done to members Joanne Dillon and Roy Crawley on completing the Fitzers 5K in Dundalk this morning. Great times from them both with newcomer Roy finishing in 24:52 and Joanne excitedly obtaining a new PB of 27:35. To quote Joanne “when I joined the club last April I couldn’t...
???????? DOMHNALL’S DOPEY CHALLENGE…! ???????? January 9th to- 13th – Always smiling, the jolliest runner in Team Ardee headed across the Atlantic to the wonderful world of Walt Disney in Orlando, Domhnall in the company of good friends set out to complete the ‘Dopey Challenge’ competing in 4 races in 4 consecutive days at the Walt Disney...