Next on the Agenda

The Annual General Meeting of Bray Runners will take place on Thursday next, 22nd Jan, at 8.30 PM sharp. We would ask all members to make every effort to attend. Annual Membership Fee, 65 euro, can be paid to Dermot Brennan, on the night.

Thursday Training continues from St. Killians College, commencing at 6.30pm. Very well attended over the past couple of weeks. On Thursday 29th Jan., we are encouraging our Fit4life group to take part in the Greystones 2ml Fit4life race, which starts at 7.30pm. Further information at this weeks session.

Sunday 25th Jan, will see a large number of our athletes take part in Raheny 5ml. Good luck to all taking part. 

Sunday 1st Feb., we will be well represented in Dungarvan 10m.  Good luck to all taking part.

Sunday 8th Feb., Enniscorthy 10k, always a large group from our club, 15 last year, and Sli Cualann take part. Many of our athletes were category winners last year, plus our ladies team, Helen, Noelle, Diana and Denise, took 2nd place. Lets go 1 better this year. Sli Cualann mens team took 3rd place behind Raheny and SBR, can they go 2 better this year.

Sunday 8th March, Ballycotton 10ml. 27 of our athletes have entered this year. The Garryvoe Hotel is the one that most of our runners and friends use, if staying over.

Wicklow 5k Road Race C/ships. Date To Be Confirmed, generally held in April.

Monday 6th April, Leinster 10mile C/ships. Venue, Raheny. All categories included in this event. Category results from 2014 can be viewed at; http://www.athleticsleinster.org/images/results/results210414_leinster_10mile.pdf

Sunday 12th April, National 10k C/ships in conjunction with Great Ireland Run, Phoenix Park. 2014 results,

Men,  http://www.athleticsireland.ie/downloads/results/National_10k_Senior_Mas_Men_Ind.pdf  

Women.   http://www.athleticsireland.ie/downloads/results/National_10k_Sen_Mas_Women_Ind.pdf

Monday 4th May, Leinster Road, 3k and 6k, C/ships. Venue, Gowran. Another race where we are always well represented.

In an effort to ensure our club is well represented at Leinster C/ships we would ask all our athletes to take part in at least one, or all 3 should you so wish, of the following in 2015,  Leinster 10mile C/ships, on 6th April, Leinster Novice and Masters 3k and 6k Road C/ships on 4th May and Leinster Novice and Masters C/C C/ships on 25th October.  In 2014 we won 3 individual medals from these C/ships, lets try and increase that number this year.  Our athletes were part of Sli Cualann and Wicklow County teams who also won team medals at these C/ships in 2014.

Finally, we usually take up a collection, before Christmas, for our Thursday night session caretaker, who looks after our gear and makes sure the water is hot for showers etc. We forgot to do so in Dec, anyone who would like to make a small donation can do so at training on Thursday next or at our AGM, also on Thursday or pass on to Jason during the week.   

Helen and Neil Win Athletics Wicklow Awards

At Friday night's Athletics Wicklow 2014 Awards, Helen Barry was named Wicklow Master Female Athlete of the Year and Neil Wiktorski was named Male Athlete of the Year. Both athletes beat off stiff competition from some excellent athletes from all across the County. Our Ladies Masters team was also presented with the Master C/C Trophy and our Senior Mens Team received the Senior C/C Trophy. Charlotte Stevens and Dominic Horan also received awards in the Fit4life Awards presentation.

The ceremony was excellently presented by the Board members of Athletics Wicklow. Great praise is also due to our host for the evening, Inbhear Dee AC, a great evening was had by all.

Amongst the other winners on the evening were, Tara Jameson, Inbhear Dee AC, Female Athlete of the Year, Mick Byrne, Parnell AC, Male Master Athlete of the Year, Damien Lawless, Parnell AC, International Merit Award and Theresa Kinanne, Greystones AC, received a special award in recognition of her untiring work in the cause of Wicklow Athletics.

Click on the link below for a collection of photographs from the night.  

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=705714989537656&set=a.705714656204356.1073741860.100002974839121&type=1&theater

Athletics Wicklow Notice

The Athletics Wicklow Star Awards will take place in the De le Salle Pastoral Centre in Wicklow Town this coming  Friday  Jan 16th @ 8.00pm.

Directions: For those attending on the night, please park at the Church in Wicklow Town, turn right at Delahunts Hardware (on main street just past Grand Hotel Junction), go up the hill and its on the left you cant miss it. From the Church you walk in the back gate to the Pastoral Centre, Inbhear Dee will have officials on duty to assist / direct . Parking at the centre is really bad but the church has loads.  A lot of effort goes into putting the Awards Night on and it makes it even better when all recipients are present to accept their well earned recognition.

Many thanks to Inbhear Dee for hosting this prestigious evening, it is certainly one of the highlights of our athletics year. Please do come along and support our athletes on this evening of celebration.

Training

We had a great turnout at training on Thursday last 8th Jan., all our regulars plus a few new faces. We hope to see everyone back again next Thursday when we will continue our build up to our early season races. These include , Raheny 5ml, Dungarvan 10ml, Enniscorthy 10k and Ballycotton 10ml.  Don't forget to enter as Sli Cualann. In Enniscorthy 10k we took numerous prizes last year, including 2nd in Ladies team event, lets go one better this year. We would also ask athletes to take note that the Leinster 10ml Road Race will be held on 6th April in Raheny, all categories.

On Saturday next 17th Jan., there will be a 5k tempo run, Shanganagh 9am, all welcome. meet at front gates.