On a very busy day in the running calendar, 47 athletes arrived in Castlewellan for the now traditional pre-Christmas night out Charity run – an ideal opportunity to get the legs warmed up for the inevitable dancing and general misbehaving that would follow later on that night. 47 started and 47 finished, but in now accepted fashion two did their own thing! Grainne and Patricia started out with the main field before finding a more interesting path; this led to a deviation off route, a bit of a nature trek, some impromptu bird watching before ambling back to the point from whence they came. After all of that they were home first by a country mile!!! The times below are accurate to a point as the timekeeper was suffering from a viral infection and a little under the weather.  Please do not hesitate to let him know if there are any inaccuracies and he guarantees to do absolutely nothing about it as this was a bit of good hearted Christmas fun.  If you ran faster you know it so well done!!! Continue reading →

Results from 5k Time Trial on Tuesday 6th October in Castlewellan are below.

Many thanks to Pascal Toner for all his hard work setting and marking the sessions all summer.

Winter programme begins next Tuesday – see details HERE

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Meet at 6:30pm.

7 July – 5 x 1 mile Tollymore

14 July – 1-2-3-4-5-4-3-2-1 Pyramid Castlewellan

21 July – 8 x half mile Tollymore

28 July – 8 x half mile efforts in Castlewellan – 6:30pm at Hillyard House

4 August – 2s & 3s (hills!) Tollymore

Big Ron Manager makes sure he wins the gold medal

There was a healthy turn out of athletes for club training session, the first since the Hill and Dale series ended on Friday 26 June. This week was a case of ‘and now for something completely different’ as athletes were paired off in a team time trial.  The format was simple; each athlete runs two laps of the lake (once clockwise and once anti-clockwise starting at the far end and the fastest combined times wins!).  Continue reading →

Some club members will be going out at 7:30am tomorrow (Sunday 21st June) doing 10 miles due to road closures later in the day. Meeting in Donard Park. All welcome.

Due to weather conditions the club marathon training group will meet at Hillyard House, Castlewellan instead of Donard Park tomorrow morning (Sun 1/3/15) for 18 mile around Castlewellan Lake.