A big well done to Aoife Moran, Luca O’Connor, Isabella O’Connor, Roan Kavanagh and Sam Dowling who all competed at the Wexford B Championships and brought home a number of medals.
On Thursday evening, thanks to great help from the parents of the juvenile athletes, USAC hosted the annual four club track & field event, at the New Ross town park track. Open to juvenile athletes from Waterford AC, St Joseph’s AC, St Senan’s AC and USAC, the clubs compete in… Continue reading
The Striders Juveniles sent their largest ever squad to Tullamore, this weekend and had a great time of it and plenty of success also. Thanks in no small part to the Hewlett brothers, this years medal count was very impressive. Saturday morning started with a bang for the Striders with… Continue reading
An historic evening for USAC, with Alan O’Connor becoming our latest county champion, in 2018, and the Striders men’s team winning the Wexford Masters Road Race Championships, at Ferns, with a perfect team score of 10 points. Led home by Alan (20.25 mins), the Striders filled the top four places… Continue reading
John McGrath and Aine Cullen were competing at the Leinster Masters, Track & Field Championships in Tullamore today. John won Gold in the 1500m event, a clear win, 16 seconds ahead of the chasing pack, and Silver in the 800m. Aine had an extremely profitable day, winning Gold in discus,… Continue reading
The USAC Juveniles had another very successful outing at day 2 of the Wexford Track & Field Championships. With over sixty athletes in action, there were so many great performances to be proud of. Some standout achievements include, in the Under 9 category, Fionn McEochaidh’s Javelin winning throw and TJ… Continue reading
Striders legend, Gavin Kelly, proved yet again what an accomplished all round athlete he is, by taking second place at the National Masters Multi Event Championship. Previously Gavin has won national and provincial medals in sprinting and jumping events. Therefore with plenty of practice at the throwing events and some… Continue reading
On Sunday, the USAC juvenile sprinters were in action, in the Leinster Juvenile Relay Championships, at Enniscorthy. The under age boys had two teams competing and both performed really well, with the U15’s winning silver and the U17’s winning bronze. The girls fielded three teams, from U17 up to Junior… Continue reading
Another Leinster medal for Aine Cullen, in the Masters O40 Pentathlon yesterday in Scanlon Park, Kilkenny. Over five events – 80m Hurdles, Long jump, High jump, Shot Put and 800m – Aine performed consistently to scoop a provincial bronze medal. Well done again Aine.
Great turnout tonight for our new speed session in the cbs.. lot of work done with coach Colm(Mo)with support from John and Catherine, well done to all.
Striders Another virtual challange. Irish Life are running a Virtual Mile race in August. See below for details. Looks like something that would suit the Striders
Hi all,
I hope you’re keeping well.
I just wanted to get in touch to see if you could help share details with your members about the new Irish Life Health Virtual Mile Challenge.
The free virtual challenge is asking people to register, run a mile, and then submit their time between Aug 17th and 23rd. Full details can be found here: eventmaster.ie/event/A4BUjlIlv
There are some super prizes for clubs to win and it’s really easy to enter;
• €500 Joma Sport Voucher for fastest male 4 x 1 mile team
• €500 Joma Sport Voucher for fastest female 4 x 1 mile team
• 4 x €500 Joma Sport Voucher awarded via an open draw for clubs who have 10 or more athletes take part. Prizes will be awarded to clubs within the most active counties so it’s important to have as many members take part as possible.
To enter, you simply need to ask your member to sign up via eventmaster.ie/event/A4BUjlIlv . The relay time is calculated automatically as long as your members include their club name during registration. They do not need to “join a relay team” as the system will automatically pull the fastest 4 times from your club (both male and female).
Times can only be submitted between Aug 17th & Aug 23rd. Details of how to submit a time will be emailed to all registered participants in advance.
It would be great if you could share the attached poster and the note below with your members and on social media;
🌟The Irish Life Health Mile Challenge🌟
Help our club win one of the prizes on offer by logging your mile between Aug 17th – 23rd.
Welcome back everyone!
We're aware of a huge appetite at the moment within the running community for a road race of any distance to be held.
So we have decided to go ahead with our current race date of Saturday 22nd of August, 2020 @ 7pm in Camross, Co. Wexford.
This is a 5 Mile Road race open to everyone. (Participants to be 18+ in accordance with AAI guidelines). Unfortunately we can not facilitate our 3 Mile Walk this year.
Although we will not be able to extend our full range of hospitality that we are renowned for each year,
United Striders AC as a running club, will make this the best event possible (in accordance with AAI & Government Covid19 guidelines). As runners we understand the importance of giving back to other runners & clubs within our County & across the country. We also have a huge number of volunteers available within our club to facilitate the running of such an event.
We have ample parking, and the course is run along quiet country roads (flat roads!), and we have lots of options of wide road for the start & finish areas, plus single direction warm up & cool down routes.
This is an Athletics Ireland permitted event, and subject to permits and other approvals, full event details will follow shortly.
In the meantime, runners & volunteers alike, please SAVE THE DATE and spread the word.
Sunday morning 20k, happydays.. thank you to Eddie Murphy and Nicola Murphy for organising the run and for the fab breakfast.. the best company.
