Harry Rewrites History at Navan

The mind of a young person is very impressionable. More open to learning and being shaped by outside factors. Also a young mind does not have the life experience to put up natural barriers to reaching their full potential when it seems the sky is the limit. For one young athlete, Harry McVeigh, he found the limit and smashed through it as he soared into the stratosphere on Sunday past, at the National Cross Country Championships to find himself on the podium as one of the best U11 runners in the whole island.

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Relentless Eve podiums at The Dub

There seems to be no such thing as too much muck and gutters for one season. Without fail, this has to be the most challenging season with regards the ground conditions underfoot and we’re only nearing the middle of the cross country season. Every route has held onto the water like a saturated sponge and it doesn’t matter what course you embrace or where abouts on the island you toe the line, it’s going to produce plenty of washing but also plenty of memories to boot.

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All Heart and Sole – All Ireland success for Young McVeigh 

When you’ve trained hard and had a great run at the Ulster Championships, to be selected to represent the county and even provincial squad is an opportunity that you can’t pass. With 10 of the Newcastle AC junior squad selected to embrace such an opportunity, it was time to organise everyone for a trip to Kilkenny to take part in the 123.ie National Senior, Junior and Juvenile Even Age Cross Country Championships, hosted by Gowran AC. Continue reading →

Report by Siobhan Grant

Sunday past welcomed the second race in the McGrady’s Financial Services Junior Cross Country Series which took place in Dromore. The notoriously flat and fast course awaited over 150 pairs of feet throughout the day’s event from 500m to 2000m.

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Report by Siobhan Grant

Fahlin Impresses to take Bronze at Bobby Rea XC

Even Storm Babet wasn’t enough to put a stop to the highly anticipated Bobby Rea International Cross Country in Comber on Saturday. With route changes a possibility to avoid the race becoming a duathlon due to waterlogged lands, the swift actions of Athletics Ni on Friday evening ensured the event would go ahead sprinkled with an authentic cross country feel of muck and gutters. Though even with rerouting plans in place, Saturday morning welcomed the blue skies and dry conditions that every spectator could dream of. However the runners still had a big task on their hands and many of them also had muck from a fall or two around the course.

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Report by Siobhan Grant

With recent inclement weather, there was no denying in the run up to the NI and Ulster Cross Country Uneven Championships in Donegal that it was going to be unavoidable muck, gutters and swimming pools. Though as one Athletics Coach at Athletics NI pointed out, that shouldn’t be a problem for the club with the mountain runners. And he wasn’t far wrong!

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