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
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.
The Mr Oil Senior Men’s and Women’s County Wexford Road Championships took place in Murntown last Saturday evening. Event hosts Wexford Marathon Club chose a rather testing route which included a long 1.5km uphill drag. The ladies raced over 5Km and Beth O’Connor, the sole USAC representative, raced really well… Continue reading
United Striders hosted the very successful first county road race of the year, the ladies and mens novice events. Thanks to fantastic organisational efforts from Catherine Ronan, Mick O’Gorman, John Kent and others, the event proved to be very popular for both athletes and spectators. The ladies event, over 3km,… Continue reading
Unbelievable results at the Leinster Novice & Masters Road Race in Gowran. The Striders team of Alan O’Connor, John McGrath, Brendan Lyng, Joe Lillis, Paul Doran and Sean Murphy won silver in the club team event. Wexford won bronze in the county team event, with Alan, John and Brendan all… Continue reading
After a competitive day at the National Masters Indoors in Athlone, the senior squad brought home an impressive total of 4 National medals. John McGrath – National Champion 1500m in 4 mins 32 Gavin Kelly – 400m 2nd and Long Jump 3rd Sonya Byrne – 400m 3rd What a day… Continue reading
The senior Striders were competing in the Leinster Masters Indoor Championships, last Saturday. Gavin Kelly had an amazing day. He won the Long Jump event, and won silver medals in both the 400m and the 800m events. Aine Cullen added another field medal to her collection, this time a silver… Continue reading
United Strider legend Pat Callaghan was part of the winning Wexford team, in the National Cross Country Masters Championship event. Following on from the juvenile event, the underfoot conditions were terrible and the Wexford team of Padraig Moriarty, David Kehoe, Jim Stafford (1st Over 55 individual), Ger Maloney, David Barron… Continue reading
Well done to our Dublin City Marathon legends Catherine Ronan, Mick O’Gorman, Colm Stafford, Emmett Malone, Lala Murphy and John Kent. After months of great training and living like monks, the Striders were fantastic on the big day, as we all knew they would. John Kent was first Strider over… Continue reading
Wexford native, Andrew Connick, running for Ferrybank AC, was the well deserved winner of United Striders AC’s 5 Mile Stride, around the roads of Tererath, New Ross, last weekend. In a top class field, Ballyfin AC’s Colin Maher finished second, with last years winner Niall Sheil, St Killians AC, taking… Continue reading
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.
