Galway City Harriers Juvenile training recommences on Sunday 7th September at the Regional Sports Centre, Dangan at 10.30am. Training times are as follows:
Sundays 10.30am-12.00 noon 7 year olds - 18 year olds
Wednesdays 7.00pm-8.30pm 10 year olds upwards
Fridays 7.00pm-8.30pm 9 year olds upwards

Galway City Harriers has about 170 juvenile members. We offer a wide range of events from cross-country to sprints, middle distance, long distance, hurdles, throws and jumps. Anybody that is interested is welcome to come along to one of our training sessions and try it out. Contact details are:

GCH had 2 athletes in action in Strandhill last Sunday for the 24th Warrior's Run a 10 mile road and hill run. Niall MacLoughlin and Bernie Kelly flew the GCH flag and Bernie even managed to win the V45 women's prize.

The 7th annual Longford marathon (incorporating a full, half and a relay) took place on Sunday 24th August last. GCH was well represented on the day with a number of our athletes participating in the half-marathon this year. Don and Nicola Deacy were making their debuts at this distance, and sensibly planned the full weekend in Longford around the event to have a right go at it. Pat O'Dwyer, Brenda Gannon and Séamus Coyne travelled up on the day to make the 11:00am start and to tackle “the friendly marathon in the heart of Ireland…”.

Longford is traditionally regarded as the most straightforward of the major town/city-based marathons in Ireland rated after Cork, Dublin and Belfast in terms of severity and a good place to go to achieve a personal-best. This year however, there was a sting in the tail for the half-marathon participants, as the traditional "out and back" route was replaced by a new closed loop circuit which introduced some hills into the equation and certainly increased the level of difficulty encountered. 

Galway athletics photographer in residence John O'Connor's wonderful collection of photographs of the 2008 Future Streets of Galway are here. Sample just a taster of the atmosphere by reading more or find them all at http://www.galwaycityharriers.com/albums/streets-galway-2008-john-oconno...

The 2008 FUTURE Streets of Galway 8K road-race took place on Saturday evening last beginning at Southpark in the Claddagh, following the traditional route through the city-centre and out through Salthill, before finishing in a closed loop adjacent to the start-line. This was the 23rd running of this hugely popular road-race which continues to be a focal point on the Irish road-racing calendar for elite competitors and recreational runners alike.

The team competition results are as follows:

Women's

1. Sportworld - 58, 128, 174 = 360
2. Athenry AC - 74, 136, 245 = 455
3. Ennis Track - 125, 217, 219 = 561
4. GCH - 69, 221, 306 = 596
5. Mayo AC - 171, 321, 488 = 980
6. Sligo AC - 183, 317, 674 = 1174
7. Tuam AC - 428, 925, 522 = 1875
8. Mullingar Harriers - 195, 345, 1519 = 2059
9. Limerick AC - 489, 1068, 1071 = 2628

Mens

1. Raheny Shamrocks - 2, 4, 6, 12 = 24
2. Ennis Track - 17, 21, 34, 38 = 110
3. Athenry AC - 23, 24, 25, 47 = 119
4. Mayo AC - 13, 36, 46, 126 = 221
5. GCH - 14, 15, 97, 100 = 223

Race results for last night's race are enclosed. A PDF of the results is available below if you want to print this out.

Race report and category winner details to follow.

Pos	No	Name	Category	PlaceCat	Club	ChipTime	Finish
1	2210	Josphat Boit	SM	1	Clonliffe Harriers	23:35	23:35
2	2134	Vinny Mulvey	SM	2	Raheny Shamrock AC	23:51	23:51
3	638	Christopher Erichsen	SM	3		24:36	24:36
4	2218	Cillian O'Leary	SM	4	Raheny Shamrock AC	24:45	24:45
5	2011	Jason Fahy	SM	5	Olympic Harriers	24:51	24:51
6	2217	David Rooney	JM	1	Raheny Shamrock AC	25:07	25:07

The Streets of Galway is over for another year. Congratulations to Josphat Boit, Clonliffe Harriers, who won the men's event and Rosemary Ryan, Bilboa AC, winning the women's even for a fourth time.

We're delighted to have hosted again a race that so many people enjoy and thank us for. Certainly a big attraction of the race is the warm, welcoming atmosphere created by our participants.

With the event behind us and only some final work on results and administration to sort out it's a good time to acknowledge the efforts of so many.

We were delighted to hear from John Devlin, member of GCH and currently serving with the UN mission in Chad.
"Greetings from CHAD Central Africa. Just want to wish GCH the best of luck with the Streets of Galway, hope all goes well. I flew the GCH Colours in Chad, Goz Beada 5K. 1st Vet."

Isn't that something?