Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Weekend Ahead


  • AAI indoor championships The national indoor senior championships will be staged at the Athlone Institute ARENA on Sat 15 & Sun 16 February. Rrepresenting the club in mens senior events will be two very promising young athletes Harry Purcell the recent winner of the national junior indoor 800m championship and Shane Aston the current national junior decathlon champion.
  • Donadea for the long trek Donandea near Kilcock will be the venue for the Irish Ultra running championship. Nearly 200 runners from around the country will do battle over a fifty kilometre course next Saturday. Among them will be our own Ultra specialist Mark Melia. The Trim man only took up running two years ago and has made quite an impact in the ultra end of things. He ran 31 marathons , numerous halfs and a few ultras in 2013 and this is his first ultra of 2014 having warmed up in an East of Ireland marathon club race around Longwood/Killyon a few weeks ago.

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