Golden Mile Series

This years golden mile series will take place on 3 Thursdays in July. The dates are July 7th, 14th and 21st. As well as a mile each night there will be another event such as shot, long jump or short sprint for athletes to try out. Each night will conclude with all doing either a 400m or 800m run and of course stretches!!

Our beginner/improver group had a golden mile a couple of weeks ago and we encourage all these runners back to do these three events too. Groups will be arranged as follow

Race A: 8 minute or more

Race B: 7min 15 sec to 8 minute

Race C: 6min 30 sec to 7min 15 sec

Race D: 5min 45 sec to 6min 30 sec

Race E: Sub 5min 45 sec

Races start at 7pm with registration from 6:30, all at the RSC.

Circuits Finishes for the summer

To finish our current set of circuits last night saw the 3 challenges of Press ups in a minute; Burbees and of course the Plank.

After 3 minutes of the plank it was down to just Tom and Anne Fitzgerald and giving Anne was likely to last about 2 hours Tom gave up wobbling at the 4 minute mark!

All good fun and back in 6 weeks!

Trip to The London Grand Prix - August 5th/6th

Since Olympic tickets for next year were hard to come by why not treat yourself to a weekend away to watch premium Athletics as part of the London Gran Prix at Crystal palace. It promises to be two thrilling days of world-class athletics and a real party atmosphere as the world's top athletics stars jet into London.

It is on the Friday night Aug 5th and Saturday Aug 6th. Tickets are only 20 Stg for Adults and 15 Stg for 16yrs and younger each day.

As of today return flights are as low as €60 from Rynair or Aerlingus and tickets are still available on http://www.diamondleague-london.com/Tickets/

People should book their own trip but if you are interested and would like to book tickets in the same area at the event contact tom@waterfordac.com for more info on tickets already booked.

Also, a great day of International athletics will be in Cork CIT track on Saturday July 2nd and the Juvenile club is running a bus and places are available if members would like to travel. more details on http://www.corkcitysports.ie/
or contact tom@waterfordac.com for bus details.

Monday night beginner/improver Golden mile night

In a refreshing rainy evening lots of our Monday night runners gave the golden mile a great effort and with times varying from sub 6 min to 10+ minutes great personal achievements were witnessed and to finish the evening all joined into a 400m sprint!

Thanks to club coaches Jacinta, Deckie and Maire who help every week and other club members who helped out on the night. Watch out for our golden mile series in July, open to all.

National League Round 1

Castleisland in Kerry was the venue last Sunday for Round 1 of the National League and WAC was represented in the Mens division this year. Great to see club chairman James Maguire back competing and winning valuable points in the Hammer, 3K walk and 56 lbs weight for distance.

Multi-county sprint champion Brendan Leahy won great points in the 100m and 400m as well as 4x100m and 4x400m relay legs and threw a Javelin to keep himself busy and not have Tom O'Brien say he did more events than anyone else and could only match Brendan with five events in doing Long Jump, High Jump, 400m Hurdles, and the 100m and 400m relay legs. Masters county champion Kieran Leahy ran the 200m and also squeezed in a discus throw between the 200m and 100m relay leg. John Behan and Gary Cantwell guesting for the club represented the vest in style and won valuable points in the 800m, triple jump, 3k steeple chase as well relay legs.

5 weeks to go to round 2 and hopefully those were not able to make round 1 will be available and a great day out for the club will be had either in Athlone or Santry when that is decided.

Bank Holiday Busy Weekend

Many WAC members were busy on the roads over the bank holiday weekend between the Cork Marathon, half marathon and relay and also in Dublin at the Flora women's mini marathon.

In the Cork full marathon some pictured here we had Ray o'Mahoney running an excellent 3.20, Alan Duke,3.41, and Ger Nolan 3.43. Brendan Aspel ran yet another marathon within weeks of Limerick and the Curragh and Harry Culbert left a PB behind him by deciding midway around to ditch the PB pressure and have a conversational 4.20 chat and Nicola Harte lead our ladies home in 3.34 with the rest doing relay legs such as Martina Fanning, Louise Casey and catriona Gough as well as Kathleen Kennedy, Paula Kavanagh, Caroline Kavanagh, Mary Power and Jacinta Brazil.

Also in the half marathon in Cork on the same day Liz Nolan ran a superb time of 1.33 and won her category of the Ladies O45 and Mary Burke who was too busy recently to fit in the recommended training went out and pulled out a great time of 1.37 and came in as 6th lady O35!

In the other Capital of Ireland many ladies had great runs in the Flora 10K and some include:Claire Fowler 43.20, Jacinta Power 44.33, Gabrielle Blair 46.35, Máire Lawlor 46.57, Laura Doyle 50.21 and Rose Ryan 54.28

Also another great performance was had by Imelda walsh in 64.27 and came in as 3rd visually impaired athlete guided by club member Sonia Dalton.

Well done all and looking forward to great performances by all these athletes in the National Half Marathon being held here in Waterford on Saturday Sept 3rd at 1pm!

Little South Run - Sunday 5th June

Well done to all club runners who competed at the Little South Run on Sunday last.

Andy Linares was the first club member home and won a prize in the Junior Men Category. Silvia Malone was 3rd lady, and Deirdre Chapman, Diane Behan and Kathleen Kennedy were all category winners in 035,040 and O50 respectively. Eoin Palmer won the O45 male category.

Many other members ran in lovely conditions and hats off to St Senans AC for yet another excellent event for all.

Also, on friday night at the 5K in Touraneena Brian Swaby had a great run to finish 2nd overall and category winners were Diane Behan, Liz Nolan and Tommy burns.