Ardee & District A.C.
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...
Our Seniors kept themselves busy over the festive holidays… ♥️ NEW YEAR’S DAY – Well done to Domhnall Lennon 24:31, Elaine Kearney 28:59 and Brian Duff with a new personal best of 22:39 at the Killanny CPR New Year’s Day 5K fundraising run. Congratulations to everyone involved and well done to our athletes. ♥️...
From Vikings to Gingerbread and a jaunt or two stateside our seniors were busy… November 17th – Early on Saturday morning ten of Fhirdhia’s warriors headed to Annagassan to battle it out with the best of them at this year’s Annagassan Viking Coastal 10k. All ten returned triumphant, a super course, fantastic atmosphere...
November 11th 2018 – Remembrance Day across the country and some of our senior athletes hit the road on this special day… A massive well done and great times from our team of 6, 2nd overall at Our Lady’s College Greenhills Remembrance Run in Drogheda – Nathan Anderson 18:54 (5th) Shane Carroll 19:40...