Deirdre Ryan of Dundrum South Dublin AC has jumped 1.90m in the High Jump at the French National Indoor Championships today and is hopeful that she will gain selection for the forthcoming World Indoor Championship. Ryan had already achieved the qualification standard for the World Indoors Championships when setting an Irish Indoor record of 1.93m [...]
Hi all,
Just like the training plans we’ve put together for runners on www.32marathons.com, Gerry and I are following a program that sees us enjoy a ‘recovery’ week every fourth week. So this week we’ve scaled back on the mileage, allowing our bodies a chance to mend and fully benefit from the 3 previous weeks of [...]
Rose-Anne Galligan (Newbridge AC) has achieved the World Indoor qualification standard for the 1500m at the Spanish Championships. Galligan ran a personal best of 4:12.72 minutes to win the heat, smashing her previous indoor best of 4:15.13 minutes and was well inside the standard of 4.15.00 minutes.
Derval O’Rourke got her preparations back on track for [...]
BHAA Garda/St Raphaels CC Race 27/2/2010. 266 Runners.
Men 4M; 1 E Flynn (Bank of Ireland) 20:01; 2 T Fitzpatrick 20:02; 3 B Roe (Gerard Laboratories) 20:05;
M40; 1 M Boyle 22:01; 2 T Buggle (Irish Prison Service) 23:01; 3 P Coyle 23:19;
M45; 1 P Malone (Turf Club) 20:11; 2 T O’Connor (Bank of Ireland) 21:20; 3 [...]
I have been running with the adidas miCoach for about 3 weeks or so. It is a combination of a pedometer, heart rate monitor and calorie counter. It also connects to your MP3 palyer and instructions from miCoach will override your music. Music has never been my thing when running as I see running as [...]
The SPAR Grand Prix 10K Series was officially launched this morning at Mary Peters’ Track in Belfast, by top UK athlete William Sharman and local athletics star Kelly McNeice.
Retail brand SPAR has announced its support of five key 10K road races across the province in 2010 as part of its goal to encourage active lifestyles [...]
We knew when FitnessWest.ie gave us a prize of a weekend on their Residential Bootcamp next weekend (March 5-7, http://bit.ly/a4OUFv), we would get a huge entry – but, still, we were pleasantly surprised.
So, those nice people Jason and Sean at FitnessWest.ie have gone and given us a second prize of a place on the Bootcamp.
Accordingly, [...]
Roscommon athletes have distinguished themselves in national and international competitions in recent weeks, reflecting an increasingly professional approach to training and preparation. A growing list of medals and an unending list of new personal bests indicate that the athletics club is becoming a force to be reckoned with.
At the Celtic Cup in Cardiff last weekend, [...]
Early morning workouts are, thankfully, nothing new to me. Generally people have a severe dislike for them. Not me, I relish a morning where you rise before dawn and experience your environment and nature unseen by most. I am not sure if it was the strict boarding school upbringing or the fact that I worked [...]
[ March 28, 2010; ] Due to the recent rail and M3 road developments in the area, a new and exiting course have been devised. The course enters Dunboyne village on three different occasions during the race, making it a spectacular spectator event. This course may also be of interest to triathletes preparing for the coming season.
New course, fast and [...]
