Thursday Sessions

We are splitting Thursday sessions to help manage numbers in the hall. Smaller kids and non competing people from 6.00 to 6.45 and those who compete from 6.30 to 7.30. If you are in doubt give me a call.

Ulster champs Pt. 2

Another day,  another shuck!!! More wind, more rain, just colder......and more mud, much more mud. It's no wonder kids give up on athletics when this is the best the governing body can come up with, dreadful course, shabby organising and a starter who was, at best,  as useful as a trapdoor in a canoe and at worst was heavily biased towards the local athletes!! A complaint will be lodged to Athletics N.I. Anyways onto the racing, and we had just two brave souls today. First up was Lucy Quinn in her first ever Ulsters.  As regular readers will know we are huge Lucy fans, she always gives 100%, and today she went the extra 1% that marks the really good from the rest. 101% from Lucy Quinn was good enough for a podium finish with an incredible 3rd place! A remarkable stat from the race was that Lucy was the only athlete  from the 6 counties to get into the top 20! An Irish championship appearance in Cavan on Dec 7th is Lucy's reward (or penance).  If there is an embodiment of all that is good in junior athletics then it must be Rachael Quinn. No-one enjoys their athletics more or is more popular than Rachael. Although more suited to sprinting on the track she gave everything for a qualification place and although she came up short it surely wasn't for the lack of effort. The disappointment she felt and still feels will be softened by the call we had with Athletics N.I. on Tuesday when it turns out Rachael made the county team with ease and will be going to Cavan in December! Unfortunately it's the Down county team so her folks might be asking her to move out..........a big thanks again to the support team.