Mini Marathon Team - Hope Foundation

The Hope Foundation is looking for runners, joggers and walkers to join their team for the Dublin Flora women mini-marathon (Entries are being accepted now and must be submitted before the closing date of 21st April 2009).

The Hope Foundation is a registered Irish charity set up in 1999 to help restore basic human rights to the street children of Calcutta (Kolkatta). Now celebrating its 10th anniversary, the foundation continues to provide education, nutrition and health care for street children. HOPE and its Indian NGO partners remove thousands of children from the streets each year and improve their quality of life.

Interested? Contact clarecody.HOPE@gmail.com (checked with Hope Foundation HQ).

Adamstown 8km

The Adamstown 8K is an initiative of Adamstown Community Partnership, whose primary remit is to foster the growth of the newly emerging community at Adamstown. All proceeds go to Adamstown Primary Schools.

http://regonline.activeeurope.com/builder/site/Default.aspx?eventid=708838

BHAA Table Quiz

To mark the end of the BHAA Winter cross country league 2008/09, the BHAA
are holding a quiz night on Friday, 27 March at 8pm in RTE Sports & Social
club.

This quiz is open to all and we would love to see you there. League prizes
for the last few leagues will be presented on the night. A list of all
prize winners will be on this website, www.bhaa.ie, soon and we would ask
you to confirm your attendance please.

FREE ENTRY & there will be finger food on the night. Contact Eddie Hughes
4947960 or Maurice Timmins 4782317 for more details.

John Davis 5Km Memorial

The John Davis Run is a 5km run race taking place on Sunday March 29th at 11am in the grounds of Malahide Castle. John Davis was a huge figure in Irish athletics over the past 20+ years who sadly passed away in 2007.
John worked with many clubs throughout his time in the sport and we are staging the race to honour his incredible input and commitment. All money raised from entries and sponsorship will go to the Irish Cancer Society. Last years event saw 250 people partake and this year we are looking to double that figure and our aim is to raise over €10,000 for the Irish Cancer Society.

To enter and for more info, visit http://www.runireland.com/events/john-davis-run-09

Great Ethiopian Run 2009

On 22 November 2009 Addis Ababa will play host to Africa’s biggest road race – a challenging 10km at 10,000 feet above sea level – an altitude that will certainly test your physical condition.

They say over 30,000 runners will take part! They include a whole package with a accomodation, travel, a tour etc. They ask that you raise 3000 Euro for the charity. That would be a significant donation to make.

Orbis

So You Think That You Are IRISH?

Metro St Brigits are collaborating with Dublin City Council to bring us a 'St Paddy's day' (race day is March 15th) 5km race. Pre-registration fee is 15 Euro (20 Euro on the day). There are some good prizes - 1000 Euro for first in male and female. Start/Finish is at the Mansion House Dawson Street, could be a bit of craic!

St Paddys Day 5km

Dingle Marathon

So now even Dingle Co. Kerry has its own Marathon! And why not? Its a beautiful enough venue. They have a professional looking website and seem to have registration open at activeglobal.com for 70 Euro (over 18s only). The race is on the 12th of September.

Dingle Marathon

All-athletics.com

www.all-athletics.com is a new athletics website. it looks pretty impressive. It is multi-lingual and is free with registration. I haven't registered yet but the news service looks good with articles that would interest real athletes. I've subscribed to several 'Athletics' news services and have been always disappointed by the low quality and irrelevance of the articles. The also seem to have good statistics, results and multimedia sections. I'm off to register!

Update: It is not free.. The free trial period is only 36 hours!! The cost of membership is 4 Euro for 5 days and 79 Euro for a year with other membership packages in between.

New Irish Monthly Ezine

Run Direct- 'THE FREE ALL-IRISH RUNNING MAGAZINE THAT ARRIVES, PANTING, IN YOUR INBOX'

Well I got notice of this just today but with no link, and no other evidence of its actual existence who knows.. The text of the notice is included below. I like that they're planning on making it free!

New monthly e-zine for runners of all shapes and sizes :

A new monthly athletics e-zine will provide runners all over Ireland with information about the sport they love – and it will be absolutely free of charge.

The new e-zine is being launched by two Mayo men – Mark Scanlon and Liam Horan – in mid-April. Mark and Liam are both keen runners, with Mark something of an endurance man – last year he ran seven marathons in seven different continents over seven months.

But just in case that achievement scares people into thinking our new e-zine is solely targeted at people who can run forever,” interjects Liam, “I am at the other end of the scale. “Mark has a body fat count that barely registers on the scale. I have a much fuller figure, which brings it own, er, challenges when running. So, between the two of us, we feel we can bring out an e-zine that will appeal to all shapes and sizes.“I recently completed two 8ks, my first races in over 20 years, and my aim is to break 40 minutes this year for that distance. Modest stuff!”

Runners – speedsters and the more leisurely-paced – can sign up for the e-zine by emailing. Each month, the e-zine will be emailed to subscribers in medium resolution, so it won’t clog up their inboxes. They can then read it on their personal computer, or print off and peruse by more traditional means.

“There is no catch here. The e-zine is free. It will have reports, features, photographs, and many other items relating to running in Ireland. We want people to subscribe now by emailing us, and to tell their athlete friends about it,” added Mark.

“The e-zine will carry coaching tips and invite readers to share their experiences. Athletes should sign up now and look forward to the first edition mid-April.”