Fit4life, Wicklow, 23rd May

The next Fit4life race will take place in Wicklow town on Thursday 23rd May at 7.30pm. Registration opposite Leitrim Lounge. Entry fee 5 euro for AAI reg., and 7 euro for non reg. If you are travelling from Bray, exit 16 from N11, through Rathnew, first left, new road, will take you to registration and start. 

ANNUAL AWARDS NIGHT

The Annual Awards night will be held on Saturday 25th May. This year Sally and Sean Clifford will host the evening in their home at 1 Herbert Rise. Herbert Road, Bray. Please inform Lorraine as soon as possible if you will be attending and the number of tickets you require, as we need to get numbers to the caterers shortly.

All members are asked to forward their nominations for the following award categories;

Athlete of The Year.

Master Athlete of The Year.

Most Improved Athlete of The Year.

Personality of The Year.

Please forward your nominations to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  as soon as possible.

We hope that as many members and their guests will attend what is always one of the highlights of the year.

RTE 5mile and Samsung 10k

The RTE 5mile road race (bhaa),was held yesterday, 27th April. The race is held around the grounds of RTE in Donnybrook, 3 lap course. Conditions were perfect for racing. The mens race was won by Robbie Mathews in a time of 25.06, and the first woman home was Orla Drumm in 28.11. Dominic Horan ran an brilliant 28.42, to finish 26th overall and 3rd O/45. There is an excellent race report from Dominic in the Race Report section. Charlotte Stevens continued her record breaking season by running a new PB of 37.42. Charlotte's previous best was 39.39 (Raheny earlier this year). Well done to all who took part. Full results on www.bhaa.ie

The Samsung 10k night race was held on Sunday 28th, the mens race was won by John Coughlan, MSB, in 30.29. The womens race was won by Aoife Talty, Raheny Shamrocks in 34.47. We had at least 6 runners taking part, Paul Humpries ran 48.31, Susan Dowd, 49.51, New PB; Colette Mason, 50.35 a new PB (3rd PB in 10 days); Edel Woods, 54.18; Elaine Nuzun, 63.17, new PB; Ana Molina, 64.34.  Congratulations also to Diana Doll who ran her first 10k in 52.22. Well done to all who took part. Full results on www.precisiontiming.net

Weekend Results, PBs for Helen and Suzanne in KClub, Ian and Gary fly the flag in London.

On Saturday (20th April) the K Club was the venue for latest BHAA race. It is a 10k, held over good flat country roads, and with conditions being good for racing on Saturday, it was an ideal race to chase a fast time. Joe Kelly put in a fine run to finish in 38.11 and Suzanne Foot recorded a new PB of 39.45, almost a minute off her previous best (40.33) and as you can see her first time under 40 minutes. Helen Barry ran an impressive 40.40 and continued her sequence of recording a Pb in each race she has run this year. Full results will be published on www.bhaa.ie 

The Wexford Half Marathon was held today (21st April), the mens race was won by Ruairi O,Donnell, Ferrybank AC, in 1hr 15min 45sec. First woman home was Angela McCann, Clonmel AC, in a time of 1.22.20. We had a couple of athletes in the race, Susan Dowd, ran 1.52.56, and Colette Mason took almost 6 minutes off her PB to record 1.53.53. Colettes 2nd Pb in 4 days (see below). Full results on www.redtagtiming.com .

Also today the London Marathon was held. We had 2 Bray Runners in the field, Ian McGrath, who ran 2hrs 37min 05 sec, and Gary Condon, who ran 2hr 38min 50 sec. Ian knocked over a minute off his Berlin time from last year and Gary took over 4 and a half minutes off his previous best, recorded in Dublin last year. Well done to all who raced over the weekend, don't forget to keep sending in your results to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.