Ballymena Runners is delighted to announce that entries for the Fairhill 5 Mile road race are now open.
The race, sponsored by the Fairhill Centre, will be on Thursday 5 June at 7pm. There will be no entry on the night so enter early to avoid disappointment.
It was standing room only on Tuesday night as around 70 Cosy Sofa Graduates and the brilliant Ballymena Runners Cosy Sofa Team met to celebrate the group completing their first 5k run on Saturday morning.
Congratulations to everyone!…
Ballymena Runners registration for existing and new members opens on Monday 10th March 2025 at 8:00pm. Membership runs from 1 April 2025 - 31st March 2026
Please register as soon as possible to help ease the admin burden on club officials.
In Week 8 of the Cosy Sofa Vincent tells us how his children inspired him to do the Cosy Sofa.
And after our Thursday session we had our last session of the week at the beautiful The Fisherman’s Walk parkrun in Glenone Forest.
Club members took on Tri Tyrone, middle distance championships, hosted by Tri Limits Triathlon Club.This triathlon covered a half ironman distance including a half marathon. Elsewhere our runners were again in action in the NI Mountain Running Association Championship held in Kilbroney Forest Park, Rostrevor.
Ballymena Runners took part the NI Masters Championship with Silver for both Ben Morrow and Noel Connor while Kieran Scullion got a new Personal Best.
Meanwhile Parkrun returned to Ecos on Saturday morning albeit with some new measures to be Covid compliant. Almost 140 runners took part with over 20 getting new PBs. Many thanks to the volunteers and those worked behind the scenes to get everything running smoothly.
Club training resumes from Monday 19th April. We will be running our Cosy Sofa (Couch to 5k programme) as well as runs of 30 mins, 45 mins and 60 minutes at various paces, as well as tempo and interval training. We are now accepting bookings for the various training groups. Members can access the training through our clubforce app.
