If you have an hour to spare this evening you could get the fright of your life while getting fit. An Riocht AC is conducting its regular Couch-to-5K from 7pm – but there is a frightening difference. Even in daylight as they make preparations, there are people frightening the daylights out of each other. Can…
It was another evening on which the weather held fine enough to see the athletes and fun runners through and home from the second of the trinity of 5K road races hosted by An Ríocht AC. on Wednesday night. Intriguingly, the first five home on Wednesday night’s installment matched that of the first leg on…
Now that the spring / summer schedules of events have run their course at An Ríocht Athletic Club, thoughts are firmly turning to those of the autumn / winter programme. During the summer an innovative, off the couch and onto the road series of training evenings culminated in a Couch-to-3K road race and fun run.…
Just over two months ago the people at An Ríocht AC launched a Couch-to-3K initiative to entice those to whom the more established 5K might look like a marathon undertaking. The idea was to get people away from the couch for the summer and it attracted a band of participants who are now looking to…
…and Coucht-to-5K is back on Tuesday and Thursday nights from February 9th at 7pm. The fitness team at An Riocht AC has put a Starter Series programme of classes together and they’ve stripped out what they call ‘The Scare Factor’ from the comprehensive plan. This will, they claim, have even the most unfit up and…
An Riocht AC manager, Kate McSweeney sent a note which tells us that, as part of their 12 days of Christmas offers, they’re donating all proceeds of Couch-to-5k tomorrow night, Tuesday December 8th to Jigsaw Kerry. We would encourage as many people as possible to come down and donate a Euro or two towards this…
It’s back with a vengeance! Couch-to-5K is returning to An Riocht Athletic Club from Tuesday, September 29th for an 11-week ‘run’ at 7pm on each Tuesday and Thursday night and almost right up to Christmas. Since the official opening of the athletics track 15 years ago the Couch-to-5k phenomenon has been one of the club’s…
This Tuesday evening’s Couch-to-5K session will see its proceeds donated to the Castleisland fund-raising branch of the Kerry Hospice Foundation. The usual army of ‘couch’ devotees will be on track and anyone who would like to try a session is welcome once they make a donation to the excellent cause. Members of Castleisland Branch wish…
There are little gestures peculiar to individuals and different in each one of us. You’d notice this if you were at the finishing line of Friday evening’s second Couch-to-5K Road Race / Fun Run. Among the serious runners, and those who stop their watches and timing devices on crossing the line, are those to whom fun-running…
Friday’s weather looked anything but inviting to all but the absolutely determined Couch-to-5k participants. However, as the Angelus was close to striking in the spire of Saints Stephen and John, almost biblically, the rain stopped, the clouds parted and the finest of evenings unfolded. There was a great atmosphere about the place and the excitement…
