Terry Mc Connon

                    1. How did you get into athletics ? I was always into fitness but began running consistently after the birth of my 3rd child.  I had three children under 5 and was very unwell after number 3. After a 6 month recovery process I promised […]

1. How did you get into athletics ? I was never a runner at school. XC was (and is?) A PE sadistic torture given to us on too many asports Wednesday afternoons on the wafer thin pretext that the football pitches were waterlogged.Running arrived at me in the mirror so to speak in mid 20s.After […]

How did you get into athletics ? I went to a school that’s main sport was rugby, a sport I never really enjoyed. During transition year I gave it up and started jogging to keep fit and continued that in college. I had never entered any kind of race prior to my first marathon, which […]

How did you get into athletics ? Eight years ago, somebody dared me to take on the swim leg of a Half Ironman Relay even though I couldn’t swim. I trained hard every day for months and eventually managed to become a terrible swimmer. My main weakness was sinking. Despite this, I completed the event […]

 I know you will find today”s very interesting. Its Linda Byrne.   1.How did you get into athletics ? I started running in the local community games with my friends at a very young age of 7. For health benefits I was encouraged to take part in Sports. Naturally as a child I enjoyed playing many […]

1. How did you get into athletics ? It more or less happened by accident. I was a competitive cyclist for about nine years, but when our first baby was on the way I gave up the bike. I started running to keep up my fitness, and discovered that transferring from cyclist to runner works […]

With no competition being able to report on for now or for the foreseeable future , I have decided to run a weekly profile of a selected athlete within the group. What I have done is asked them to complete a small questionnaire to how they started out in athletics and what they have done […]

Half marathon’s definitely to the fore this week .Two of our guys competed in the Hague Half Marathon with excellent results from both achieved. Paul Stephenson ran 68.54 (PB) and Ciaran Aylward running 75.34 (PB) . Back home we had a much larger contingent in attendance at the ever popular Bohermeen Half in Meath. Fergal Whitty […]

Storm Jorgay might have restricted most of the group from competing over the weekend but our hardy hill runners produced some remarkable results in the two respective races with everyone single one of the small select group winning something from their races. Yesterday was the rescheduled Ticknock Winter and Brian Kitson was our first finisher in […]

It was great to see such a big contingent from the group at the Central Bank Bhaa Cross Country in Wesley College yesterday. I know the guys from CB who train with us really appreciated it. Our first home was Brian Geraghty in 4th place ( 1st / O45) with Des Kennedy next in 5th […]

Weather continues to cause havoc with training and on the racing front over the weekend. However we still managed a few excellent results all the same . On Saturday  we had a smaller than usual number competing at the ALSA Cross Country  with Paraic Shortall having his best run in sometime with a 15th place […]

Various terrains and distances to report on this week. First , I want to mention 3 of the guys who ran last weeks Raheny 5 who I omitted from the report. The 3 lads finished with 14 seconds of each other with Mark Hollowed first home of the 3  in 30.20 followed closely by Gavin Hillery […]

What a day today. The day began today down in Laragh near Glendalough for the first IMRA race of the year at Brockagh Burst. Sonya McConnon got back to competitive action with 2nd Female (1st O/35). Conor Nolan was 2nd O/60 with Conor Daly 3rd. Stephane Crouzat finished 4th in the O/55 category. In the […]