The Winter League is going strong every week with many turning up to run in the heavy rain last Thursday as they felt they had missed enough running over the winter period. Our leader board has changed after week 7 with Barry Lambe running an excellent time of 24.51mins to put him squarely on top with Paul Hallahan and Dermot Power next fastest in 25.35mins and 27.13mins.  Pauline Lambe is still the fastest of the ladies, having the 2^nd fastest club time overall with 25.03mins with Siobhán Kennedy and Siobhán Dunphy next with 28.53mins and 30.10mins.

Last Saturday we held our January Club Training Duathlon in Fenor with almost 30 eager athletes turning up to try out the 5k run, 19k cycle followed by a 3k run, with many doing one for the first time...Read More.

There was new race on the calendar over the Christmas period with Bonmahon national school holding a 10k run or walk to collect funds.  Paul Hallahan and Siobhán Dunphy were our only 2 entrants in this and they really enjoyed the race.  Paul was obviously keeping fit over the Christmas as he won the race with Siobhán finishing strongly also.

The annual Baldy Man run took place on the beach in Tramore after Christmas with over 260 runners running off the turkey and pudding in this 5mile race. A few of our club members took the challenge on the day with Stephen Doyle having a great race to finish 14^th overall in 38.29mins.  Brian Slattery also ran strong to finish 25^th in 39.46mins with Dermot Power a few seconds behind in 39.59mins and Paul Hallahan just behind in 40.16mins.  Tom Brennan finished in 43.15mins with his brother John Brennan coming home in 44.47mins and Paul Cusack in 45.24mins.

Waterford AC held their very popular half marathon last weekend with almost 1000 runners from all over Ireland taking part on the day with an unprecedented 30 members of the club taking part...Read More.