Below is a video of an excellent practical webinar on athlete mobility and injury prevention with Sport Ireland physiotherapist Ciara McCallion.It includes 30 minutes of exercise demonstrations which athletes (& coaches) can complete while watching the video and incorporate into their training and recovery sessions in future.
Thanks to Conor Wilson, our Region Decvelopment Officer (RDO) for sharing this.
Tuesday February 2nd 8pm on Zoom
All Club members are invited to attend the meeting.
Zoom link will be shared with Club Members by email prior to the meeting.
We are actively seeking new Committee members, so if you are interested in this please contact the Club Secretary on secretarygch@gmail.com
Tuesday January 19th 8pm on Zoom
Parents and Juvenile athletes over 16 are invited to attend the meeting, please contact secretary.gchjuvenile@gmail.com and we will forward you the Zoom link.
We strongly encourage all parents to attend this meeting. Being able to attend meeting online makes it so easy and its a great chance to hear all about what has been going on behind the scenes in 2020 and the Club’s plans for 2021. We are actively seeking new Committee members, so if you are interested in this, please drop the Juvenile Secretary a line at the email address above.
We look forward to seeing you at the meeting.
Well done to everyone who took part in the 2021 Virtual Resolution Run 5K.
1st Kieran Mc Keown, Waterglasshill AC in 16:09
2nd Tony O’Connor, GCH in 17:39
3rd Neasa de Burca, GCH in 18:41
You can see all the results here https://www.myrunresults.com/events/virtual_resolution_run/4032/results
Proceeds of the race are being shared between GCH and Galway County Board.
Many thanks to everyone who supported the event.
Message from Brendan Staunton as he leaves GCH.
We wish Brendan and his family every good wish as he returns to Mayo. Thank you Brendan for all you have contributed to the GCH over the years. It’s been an honour!
Message to club and its members.
It is with a heavy heart that I write this and let everyone know that I am moving to another club. I recently moved home to Co Mayo with my family and have decided to join a club closer to home. I hope to develop the throwing scene here and build a throwing community.
Galway City Harriers have been an amazing club to be part of and I can’t thank you enough for everything. I put my blood, sweat and tears into the GCH colours and everytime I stepped into the circle to represent the club was my absolute honour.
To my teammates on the league team it was great to make history with you on more than one occasion and I know you will continue to be amazing.
Thank you to all the coaching staff and the board for everything over the years, and a big thank you to Sean Breathnach for helping me develop into the athlete I am today.
Big thanks to Brendan Glynn also for the tons of encouragement and support since day one.
See you on the battlefield friends,
Brendan Staunton.
Wishing all our members, coaches, leaders, parents, committee members, families, friends, followers, fellow athletes and rivals a very Happy Christmas from all at Galway City Harriers. Enjoy the festivities!
Galway Athletics and GCH are launching the Resolution Run as a virtual event for New Year 2021, as due to restrictions the event cannot go ahead as a road race. This event has been a fundraiser for athletics and other sports in the county via a major volunteer effort ( Monivea RFC have been a major helper and beneficiary ) and this years proceeds will once again go towards funding athletics at juvenile and senior level in the county . You can sign up here and a tee shirt or long sleeve can be added to your order also. We ask you to complete a 5k on a course of your choice – of which there are many well known ones!- over the period from New Years Eve to 6th Jan and record your time. Best wishes and many thanks from all at Galway Athletics and GCH !
Membership of Galway City Harriers for 2021 is now open.
Current membership is valid until 31st January 2021.
You can sign up on https://clubforce.com/clubs/athletics-galway-city-harriers-galway/
Any queries contact
Adult Section gchmembership@gmail.com
Juvenile Section secretary.gchjuvenile@gmail.com
The final results* of the nationwide Virtual Cross Country Challenge (which was as close to an All Irelands as we got in 2020) have just been released by Athletics Ireland and the Regional Development Officers who drove this great idea. A massive 4600 juveniles took part and -as per normal years – to finish in the top 100 in any category represents a superb performance as there literally hundreds in most races, closer to a thousand in some.
Galway City Harriers had a wonderful participation rate and we congratulate all who took part and all who made the 100* listed (below) in their categories today…William McDonnell was highest placed of our athletes, finishing in 18th place of 138 u17 boys, while Seamus Hayes was a brilliant 27th of the u11s. Further details of final national placings* are listed below and in the attached link.
*It must be noted that all these results need to be taken as a guide or benchmark as courses and conditions varied across the events held by individual clubs.
https://www.athleticsireland.ie/…/athletics-ireland…
U10
Lucy O’Connor 90th
Keelan Keady 98th
U11
Lauren Foley 61st
Orna Dunne 66th
Alannah Joyce 91st
Seamus Hayes 27th
Dara Breathnach 60th
Ciaran O’Driscoll 78th
U13
Jennifer McCarthy 69th
Oisin Maher 63rd
U15
Caitlin Podmore 100th/355
Oisin Phelan 73rd/304
Senan McDonnell 97th
Conor Burke 76th
U17
Isabella Burke 46th/139
Fauve Aylmer 49th
Aoibhe Joyce 53rd
Leana Nic Donnacha 77th
Gillian McGrath 85th
William McDonnell 18th/138
Eoin Killeen 29th
Robert Urquhart 38th
Luke Dahler 51st
Sean Duggan 58th
Daithi Kilcommins 61st
Well done to all our athletes who took part in this and the Cross Country season overall. Fingers crossed we may see more similar opportunities for these runners in 2021.
We thank you for your involvement throughout 2020 and share some of the images that show how we have continued to thrive as a club.
