Weekend Report – January 10th

First of all, on behalf of the club, I would like to convey our thanks to our esteemed colleague Brian Todd for his super report-writing in 2015 which kept us…

Festive Round-up

With the way that Christmas fell this year it was very much a case of parkrun with bells on it. There was a Christmas morning parkrun on the Friday and…

Race Over The Glens

Photo by NiRunning

It is traditionally a busy time of the year and no sooner has the Christmas Cracker been put to bed than we are contemplating the Race over the Glens on…

Castlewellan Christmas Cracker

Three days after Christmas Day traditionally brings the Castlewellan Christmas Cracker, organised by Newcastle A.C., a Club which knows a thing or two about organising races over difficult terrain. This…

Greencastle 5 mile Road Race

Photo by Greencastle 5 mile

There are three Greencastles that I know of in Northern Ireland. There is one in North Belfast, one in Co. Down on the shores of Carlingford Lough and then there…

Weekend Report – December 20th

Christmas is coming and the goose is getting fat! That may well be the case, but Christmas is also synonymous with the City of Derry Spartans A.C. North-West Cross Country…

Mighty Oaks Cross Country

One big event for us at Orangegrove this weekend… the Mighty Oaks Cross Country extravaganza at Cookstown, courtesy of Acorns A.C. More enjoyable than usual this time because we are…

Weekend Report – December 6th

Photo by John T Glover

December is traditionally a busy month with a variety of festive events mixed in with the usual fare of cross country and road races… and that is exactly the way…

Malcolm Cup XC 2015

Photo by John T Glover

The main event on Saturday was the annual Annadale Striders’ Malcolm Cup cross country races at the Six Mile Water Park in Ballyclare, on a course roughly similar to the one…

Seeley Cup 2015

Photo by Edward Cooke

The Seeley Cup 10k race is generally regarded as one of the premier road races of the season, in fact the road racing season’s closing event, attracting some of the…