The Striders had both womens and mens teams in action at Kennedy Park, competing for county novice titles. Over 4km, Nicola Murphy put in a fantastic display to win individual Silver. More good news followed as the team of Nicola, Catriona McLoughlin, Lettie Myer and Aine Cullen won the club… Continue reading
First race of the day, over 500m, was the Girls U10 event. First Strider home was Sarah Lillis, closely followed by Ella Howlin, Isabella O’Connor and Aoife Wall, running out-of-age. Over the same testing 500m loop, the Striders U10 boys had a massive representation, with an even dozen facing the… Continue reading
Following hot on the heels of their best club performance last week, the Striders Juveniles were back in action, in horrible weather, at the St. Senans Open Cross Country event today. Despite the rain we had an even dozen competing at this well established event, that always attracts big fields… Continue reading
Well done to all the Juvenile and Senior athletes who won the Best Overall Club shield at today’s Taghmon AC Open Cross Country event. The Striders juveniles turned up in big numbers and given that many were competing in their first ever cross country event, they were all fantastic. Max… Continue reading
A number of seniors Striders were in action at the National Masters Track & Field Championships, the final Track & Field event of the year. Sonya Byrne took Gold in the O40 400m event, in great style. Drawing the inside lane, Sonya had overtaken all her competitors by the time… Continue reading
The Striders had a fantastic evening, on the track, on Saturday, at the second Declan Shannon Memorial event. We managed to dodge the bad weather and enjoy a spot of running followed by a well earned barbecue. The mens 1,500m event was won, for the second year, by Adam O’Connor,… Continue reading
Another national medal for the O’Connor family, with Luca O’Connor having a brilliant run, to place 3rd in the Boys U14 800m. Well done Luca. Following in the footsteps of big brother Adam.
Another hugely successful evening at our 6th consecutive 5 Mile Stride. We really appreciate everyone supporting us despite the last minute change of venue, and we’re delighted with the positive response of the new course and venue, with lots of PBs reported. There was a highly competitive field, attracting some… Continue reading
VENUE CHANGE FOR OUR ROAD RACE *******ROAD RACE MOVED TO CAMROSS HALL, Y35 YY89****** We have had to change our venue due to new Health & Safety regulations concerning main roads, sprung on us only this week. The race will start and finish at Camross Hall . It’s a 5… Continue reading
The Striders had multiple juvenile athletes qualify from the provincial championships, for the National Track & Field championships at Tullamore. Myles Hewlett was in action in the Boys U15 800m, coming through his heat, just off the fast pace. In the final, he had an even quicker race and battled… Continue reading
Well done to our striders who supported our neighbours St.Josephs,James Lawlor memorial run this evening.Aine was the First Lady home,Thomas the fastest male and Mick 3rd male all bringing home silverware,huge well done to our new strider Rich Clarke on his first race and to Seamus Kehoe,Declan Sinnott,Sean Sean Bolger,Justin Aylward,Martin Kehoe..go striders.
We are placing an order depending on interest for snoods with USAC logo @ €10 let Catherine Or Kathleen know if you are interested.
Hi all. We made the very difficult decision last night to cancel this year's USAC 5 Mile Stride. The decision was made based on both public health concerns and for financial reasons.
The recent extension of the Covid-19 Phase 3 regulations covers the weekend of the Stride, limiting the event to 200 people. The 200 includes race entrants, stewards, civil defense, spectators etc.
In the absence of sponsorship, (we did not feel it appropriate to ask for sponsorship given the hardship many local businesses are having to endure), the event became financially unviable.
Concerns were also raised about people congregating in large numbers given the recent upturn in Covid-19 cases.
So with a heavy heart the decision was made to cancel this year's event and to start planning for 2021. Thank you to all of our volunteers who have put in considerable work behind the scenes, especially Catherine and Aine and all of the committee.
Thanks too to those of you who signed up, you will receive an email from Pop Up Races detailing the refund of your race registration fee. Stay safe everyone.
The James Lawlor Memorial 5k takes place this Friday with the first runner taking to the road at 7:30pm.
We would like if those who have registered can arrive at 7pm to be allocated their start time and have warmups completed to be ready to start. It would also help if athletes doing warmups could use the road back towards the new bridge behind the start line so we can keep the race route clear.
Parking and the start line is located about halfway down the pink rock road between the humpback bridge and the new bridge.
Directions to Car Park goo.gl/maps/oDbS99JR31woHVbu7
Looking forward to seeing you there and Good Luck
Please remember to adhere to all recommended guidelines on social distancing during the event
