New category for Maire

Happy Birthday to Maire Lawlor as she turns 45 and best of luck from the club at all these masters competitions she is targeting in her new O45 category!! No pressure Maire but we are expecting a big medal haul at the Munster Masters T&F at the end of April. Glad the Long and High Jumps are going so well and that you are not forgetting the roads too!!

Why not join Maire and many others on saturdays at the RSC from 12:30 to 2:00 for introduction to T&F sessions. All standards and ages catered for.....We're not just a running club you know!!

Best of luck to all competing at the Munster Roads on Sunday next. Ladies 2 mile and Men 4 mile. Anyone travelling please bring the camera and email through to tom@waterfordac.com

Waterford AC & Today FM Run with Ray

Waterford AC are delighted to host the Waterford leg of the five days of the Run with Ray 5k series being organised as part of the Ray Darcy show on Today FM.

Our day in Waterford is Monday April 4th. Ray will host his daily show on the day here in Waterford between 9am and 12 noon and then do the 5k at 1pm.

Pre-entry is available now on www.runireland.com at just 5 euro which includes a T-shirt. The plan is that people will meet at the RSC and be ready to do the 5K run with Ray starting at 1pm and workers can be done and back to work in time!

The route map is shown below; (Direction of run is anti-clockwise).

The Facebook page is available here.

Calling Women to run for South East Simon

The South East Simon Community have written to ask if any of our women members would consider running the Flora women’s mini marathon on 6^th June on behalf of South East Simon Community.

For details of the race click here .

In the current difficult economic climate and with the high levels of unemployment and redundancies, Simon are finding an increase in the level of people looking for our assistance.

As they are almost completely funded by public donations, they are now looking to local residents to help fundraise to ensure that they can deliver the services in our location.

For more Details contact; Fiona Lewis, Chief Executive Officer, South East Simon Community, Unit 33 Johnstown Business Park, Waterford Ph: 051 874838 Mob: 085 8055400 E: fiona.lewis.sesimon@eircom.net

First Waterford AC WIT AC 6k Run

On a lovely Saturday afternoon in Waterford the first annual WAC WIT 6K Carraiganore run was held with Waterford AC men and women winning both team events.

Caitriona Gough won the F35 category prize and great to see the Tuesday and Thursday sessions at 5:45 on the track really paying off for Caitriona.

Anne Fitgerald, back running strong after a long fight with a leg injury, was an impressive winner in the F50 category.

The winning mens team was Frank Quinlan, Jim Baldwin and David Cunningham and the Ladies winning team was Suzanne Dullaghan, Elaine Barry and Mary Burke.

Junior winners for the club were Alan Slattery (3rd) and Niamh Tebay (2nd) and Bernadette Power (4th).

Great to see so many members wearing the club singlet and while the course was tough all agreed it was a great event with a very high standard of athlete. Great marshalling of the course by WIT students and WAC members alike was evident and hats off to the WIT students in organising and distributing so many spot prizes. After such a tough run a very welcome and superb catering service was provided through Campus Services in WIT. Andrew Connick of WIT is to be congratulated on pulling out all the stops in making this first of many WAC WIT ventures an unqualified success for both clubs.

A surprise presentation was also made to club captain Tom O'Brien for a successful past year of competition where he set Irish record marks in the Masters O40 category for Outdoor Pentathlon, Decathlon and Indoor Penthathlon and won silver medals in the British Masters outdoor and indoor pentathlon championships and finished eight in the Decathlon at the European championships. We wish Tom the best of luck later this month when he competes in the European Indoor championships in the Pentahlon in Belgium. Receiving his presentation, from Albert Tebay, Tom thanked the club for the vey nice plaque and (flashy) club gear and looked forward to many years of strong links between Waterford AC and the WIT AC in this Carraiganore race and also the developement of athletics facilities at the WIT Carraiganore Campus generally.

The consensus among athletes and spectators alike was that Sports Campus Carraiganore facility could be the centre of athletics for Waterford, the region and beyond for many years to come and Waterford AC are delighted to be intrinsically linked in this endeavour.

Dungarvan 10K

On a beautiful day in Dungarvan Waterford AC were very well represented in the WWAC 10K. This race was the last in the Michael Roche Carpets spring series and Sylvia Malone was the overall ladies winner.

Pictured with Sylvia is the mens winning team of Brian Swaby, David Cunningham and Kevin Malone. Also, Diane Behan won the O40 prize and John Dalton won the O45.

Also, included were Pat Nolan (on a tempo run having giving it the full hit at the Tramore Duathlon yesterday) and Peter Murphy who also did the duathlon yesterday. Deirdre Chapman is pictured with great friends of the club Adele Walsh and Tara Swaby who were all very happy with their runs.

Well done to all our members who competed in the Duathlon in Tramore yesterday also.

WAC WIT AC 6km roadrace

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Entries are now being taken for the 6K road race to be held at Carraiganore, WIT on Saturday March 5th at 2pm. This is a WAC race run to generate funds for the WIT athletic club and all members are encouraged to come and compete and/or support what it is hoped will become an annual event.

It is suitable for walkers, joggers and racers and there are plenty of prizes available.

Advance entry (10 euro) can be completed in Alfie Hale sports shop in the city or by completing the form shown and giving it to Tom O'Brien. Entries on the day taken from 12:00 noon at carraiganore at 12 euro.

Weekend Activities

Well done all who made the journey to the Munster Cross Country Championships on Sunday and in very tough conditions good performances were had by all. Claire Grant and Richard Lucas competed inn the Junior events and in the senior men race Brian Swaby lead home the men's team with a very respectable 18th place and together with Jim Baldwin, Dave Drohan, Finley weir and Derek Grant the team just missed out on a medal by finishing 4th.

On the same day in London Tom O'Brien competing in the British Masters Indoor Pentathlon won Silver and recorded a new Irish record of 2893 points. The events were 60m Hurdles, Long Jump, Shot Putt, High Jump and 1000m. Any members interested in getting involved in Masters Track & Field should contact Derek Grant, Jacinta Power or Tom as we will be starting Saturday introductory sessions again this year (starting in March).