It was a nice day for taking photos yesterday and with all the cameras around I am sure we will end up with many many pictures to commemorate the event.
Just to get us going here are a few from the man synonymous with photography and Galway Athletics - Craughwell's own John O'Connor. As I was doing the results, I didn't get to see much of the race itself after the first 30 or so finishers - however I did get to enjoy this cracking battle between Athenry's Alan Burke and GCH's Joe Morrisey. Alan has a really amazing finishing kick - he must have gained 30 metres or more on Joe in the finishing straight but just failed to sneak in ahead despite finishing on an identical time.
Check below for some more pictures.
Here are some from John O'Connor ( a lot more to follow in time from him..!)
Francis Kennedy of Athenry took some as well - these can be seen over on http://eirefoto.com.
written by dave on March 17, 2010
Was there entry on the day for this.Heard there was some people who where not on the whose doing it list who ran on the day. Was going to try and enter on the day but heard it sold out long ago.Roll on next year. Will the number of participants be bigger next year as it will probably sell out faster due to the success of year one.
written by Patrick C on March 18, 2010
Hi Dave, some of our flyers which we put up in gyms, universities etc did not make it clear that you could not enter on the day. We spotted this mistake prior to race and agreed that if someone had travelled to the race believing that they could run we would not turn them away as it was a mistake we had made. In total 20 people arrived at race HQ without being registered beliving they could register on the day. We will most likely open the race to a larger number next year and look forward to seeing you there.