100 Days To Go

 

The Count Down is On

It is now 100 days to go until you put your toe on the start line of the Ratoath AC Half Marathon at 9am on September 14th.

Sign Up Now to start your journey to your Half Marathon PB in one of Irelands flattest, fastest course.

Foe Full details: http://www.ratoathac.ie/p/12-marathon.html

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2024 Couch To 5K

We are delighted to announce our very popular Ratoath AC Couch To 5K is back by popular demand. 

WHEN: Starting on Monday the 3rd of June at 7:30pm for 6 weeks 

Registration LINK 👉 SIGN UP NOW 

WHERE:👉 Directions to Ratoath Athletic Club

HOW MUCH: Only €50 ! 

Only 50 places available. don't hold back sign up NOW for 6 weeks of training with Ratoath AC's Coaches. 

18+ 

Any quires please email us on : ratoathathletics@gmail.com

 The Meath Athletics Awards took place on Saturday night in the Ardboyne Hotel in Navan a highly successful evening for Ratoath Athletic club, on the back of an exceptional 2023 fourteen of our athletes received the athletes of the year award in their age category, we were the winners of the Track & Field Indoor, Outdoor and Cross Country Leagues and also best juvenile club at the Track & Field Championships and Best Juvenile & Senior Club at the Cross Country Championships 2023 a superb testament to all the hard work and dedication put in by our athletes, coaches and parents, well done all.

The Awards were presented by Ratoath's very own Ronnie Quigley who recently took up the post as President of Athletics Meath. 

 

Full list of Ratoath award: 

                                    

The Heffernan Cup: Girls U9 Team 

                                                                        

Rod and Gun Perpetual Cup: Boys U12 Team

                                                                        

D. O’Brien Cup: Girls U14 Team   

                                           

                                              

  

Best Juvenile Club at the Cross Country 

Championships 2023

 

Best Senior Club at the Cross Country Championships 2023                                     

                                                                                                                                    

Meath Juvenile Inter Club Cross Country League 2023 WINNERS                                         

                                                

Best Club at the T&F Championships 2023    

                                    

Bob Heffernan Shield Juvenile Club                                        

                                                

Inter Club Indoor T&F League 2023 WINNERS 

                                                

Inter Club Outdoor T&F League 2023: WINNERS       

                                    

                                                                                                

**Cross Country MEATH ATHLETES OF THE YEAR Award**   

                                    

Cross Country Athlete of the year U14-U16: Lydia Jordan

                                                

Cross Country Athlete of the year U17-U19:  James Kelly (Jt)   

                                            

                                                                                                 

Junior  Ladies Cross Country Athlete of the year:  Kayla Ryan (Jt)                                         

                                                

Junior  Male Cross Country Athlete of the year: Kyle Witter

 

                                    

**TRACK AND FIELD MEATH ATHLETES OF THE YEAR**                                                                                            

U11-U13  Track Male Athlete of the year Oliver Couch 

  

                                          

U14-U16  Track Female Athlete of the year: Aisling Shevlin (Jt)

U14-U16  Track Male Athlete of the year: Theo De Bonis 

                                         

U14-U16  Field Female Athlete of the year: Lucy Mooney 

                                                   

U17-U19  Track Female Athlete of the yea : Katie Doherty                                        

U17-U19 Field Male Athlete of the year: Gavin Witter  

  

                                          

U17-U19 Field Female Athlete of the year: Caoimhe Fitzsimons  

                             

Junior Track Male Athlete of the year: Jack O'Donnell   

                                            

Senior Track Female Athlete of the year: Karen Hayes 

                                             

Masters  Field Male Athlete of the year: Michael McCaffrey                                     

                                         

       

 

14 of our athletes who won medals at National Championships were presented with plaques noting their achievement.                       

Aisling Shevlin , Aisling Stratford, Caoimhe Fitzsimons, Eve Mooney, Gavin Witter, Jesse Osas, Katie Doherty, Laura Kelly, Loclainn Harris, Lucy Mooney, Lydia Jordan, Niamh Murphy, Oliver Couch & Theo De Bonis        

 

Thank you to Meath Athletics for a Special Presentation to our Junior T&F Team for their outstanding performance winning the B finals and representing Meath and Ireland in the European U20 Club Championships in Rome last September. 

 

A lovely night had by all. Our Club Chairman Ronnie Quigley did a fine job as President of Meath Athletics presenting the awards to all the athletes on the night and a huge thank you to Meath Athletics for their time and efforts put into compiling the results and organising the evening and beautiful awards handed out on the night.

 

                                    

Membership 2024

Note from Club Registrars Joy & Orla 

Just a little reminder for everyone to renew their membership. 

A renewal link has been emailed to you from Athletics Ireland via event master (check your spam)

No one is allowed to attend training until they are registered for 2024 as they will not be insured.

If you are eligible for a family discount you need to use the same email for each member of the family.

If you are adding a new member to your family group or if you've any problems with your membership please do not proceed with payment first contact our club registrars on the following email racreg2020@gmail.com

For all membership and renewal queries please contact us at racreg2020@gmail.com

Regards, 

Joy and Orla. 

Club Gear FREE DELIVERY on bulk order open until Sunday eve

 

🎁**Club Gear **🎁

FREE DELIVERY on bulk order open until Sunday eve 

https://www.rwsports.ie/clubs/ratoath-ac

 

 

🎅Website now open for club bulk delivery 

 

🤶Order will be sent to the club and distributed at the track later next week. 

 

🎄👀So we can identify you for ease of distribution when ordering please put Training Group name in  front of  NAME i.e U9 xxx or Adults xxx One training group name per  family. 

 

🧑‍🎄*Only in stock items on sale* 

💨Hurry sock can run out 

 

🎅Get your Christmas Stocking fillers 

 

Any Club Gear related questions please contact info@rwsports.ie

Ratoath's U20 team will represent Ireland at the European Athletics U20 Clash of the Clubs Championships

 

As Irelands top U20 club at the National Championships we have qualified to represent Ireland at the European Athletics U20 Clash of the Clubs Championships, a fantastic honour and opportunity for our athletes to compete against the top clubs in Europe.

This is an amazing group of young athletes from Ratoath who have qualified to compete in the European Club DNA Championships. With great success also comes great financial cost. We are a small club with limited funds and are looking for your support to bring our team there. We have set up a go fund me page for anyone who would like to donate, any donation small or large is greatly appreciated before we travel to Italy on the 14th of September 2023.

We also have a music bingo night of fun and prizes organised for Saturday Aug 26th in the Ratoath Inn €50 for a table of 4 with a raffle on the night please email ratoathathletics@gmail.com to purchase a ticket.

GO FUND ME LINK :👈

Couch to 5K Register NOW

Take that first Step 

Register now for our Couch to 5K at this LINK:Couch to 5K registration LINK

Are you up for the Challenge to get yourself from zero to 5K or run a faster 5K this summer with just one week to go take that first step and Register Now for our Couch to 5K Programme on this link https://eventmaster.ie/event/R4GjCL5h76

Starting on Wednesday 7th of Jun until 16th of July, 2 sessions per week led by experienced Ratoath Athletic Club coaches everyone welcome men and women over 18

3 different running groups:

COMPLETE BEGINNER : from zero to 5K never ran before or have been running/walking

IMPROVER: can run a 5k but not comfortably.

ADVANCED: can run a 5k comfortably and would like to increase speed

Only €60 starting on Wednesday 7th of Jun until 16th of July

Training takes place 8-9pm every Monday and Wednesday at Ratoath Athletic Clubs grass running track next to Ratoath College. Track Location

The Couch to 5k programme aims to enable participants to complete a 5k on conclusion of the programme. The group will train twice a week in the evening time with experienced club coaches no problem if you can’t make every night.

For more information on any of the above programmes you can email us at ratoathathleticsroadrace@gmail.com

All Training takes place on Ratoath AC's grass running track next to Ratoath College HERE