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Welcome to Rathfarnham WSAF AC

We are an athletics club based on Main Street, Rathfarnham village (beside Rathfarnham Credit Union) catering for athletes of all ages and abilities Our athletes take part in a wide variety of events including cross country, track, road and mountain running.

Adult club training sessions have been running again since May 10th.  Covid rules similar to before will of course apply to all sessions.

 

Juvenile training sessions re-started on Monday 26th April with track sessions for juniors from.

Please note that membership is FULLY BOOKED FOR JUVENILES (8-12 year olds) FOR 2021. Please email our juvenile co-ordinator, Jackie at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. if you wouild like your child to be added to our waiting list.

 

 

 

UNDER THE CURRENT AAI COVID TRAINING RULES ALL CLUB SESSIONS MUST BE PRE-BOOKED

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Latest Reports

Dublin Athletics Graded T&F Meeting no.1 June 9th 2021

Denis Daly 15-06-2021 07:45

The Dublin Graded track and field meets finally kicked off on Wednesday June 9th in Tallaght Athletics Stadium. Because numbers are limited under current Covid rules the meet was kept to 3 events; Hammer, 100m and 1500m. Rathfarnham WSAF AC had a good entry in the 1500m with some fantastic individual per ...

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Irish Milers Belfast Meet 29th May 2021

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Denis Daly 30-05-2021 09:56

It was fantastic to have a group of our club athletes competing together at a meet after such a long break. There were some great times run with the highlight being Carla Sweeney running a blistering early season PB of 4:17.57 to win the 1500m. She's hitting super form with her first PB in 5 years!!.  Stephen Gaffney was second in the 100 ...

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Lecture 5 - "Stretching, Wellness, running style, body posture and aging"

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Denis Daly 30-05-2021 09:53

Many thanks to our own coach Adam Jones who rounded out our series of lectures at Rathfarnham WSAF AC this week. Everyone came away with wonderful nuggets of information from Adam's seemingly endless knowledge. Stretching, wellness, running style, body posture and aging were the topics covered in remarkable detail in one evening!

Lecture 4 'Sports Psychology' by 'Sports Psychologist' Brendan Hackett

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Denis Daly 24-05-2021 21:50

Many thanks to Brendan Hackett for a wonderful talk onMay 19th to all of us in Rathfarnham WSAF AC. The topic, 'Sports Psychology', is of interest to everyone who competes in any sport but everybody seemed to come away with at least a few nuggets of information to help drive our running performances to the next level. Thanks to Brendan we will a ...

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Lecture 3 'Performance Nutrition' by Daniel Davey

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Denis Daly 24-05-2021 21:48

Performance nutrition was the title of the May 12th Rathfarnham WSAF AC lecture delivered by Daniel Davey. Daniel is the senior performance nutritionist for the Dublin Senior football team and Leinster rugby. He also works as a performance nutritionist with a host of elite athletes in a range of sports such as hockey, golf and athletics. We only ...

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Lecture 2 'Strength and Conditioning for runners' by Colin Griffin

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Denis Daly 24-05-2021 21:46

Our May 5th Rathfarnham WSAF AC talk was by double olympic 50k racewalker, strength and conditioning coach, sports scientist and researcher Colin Griffin. It was an evening packed with gems of training information and science that has motivated us all to push on with our S&C! Many thanks again to Colin for his wonderful presentation.

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