This website contains information about some of the road races in the counties of Kerry, Limerick, Clare, Tipperary and Waterford in Munster, Ireland. For races in Cork, see the Running in Cork website which is the largest athletics website in Munster. That site also contains plenty of national and international news items as well.
Medical Plan now required for all AAI approved races...
For those members of athletic clubs who are involved in organising road races...."Going forward Athletics Ireland will require a Medical Plan to accompany a Permit Application."
The relevant form can be seen on the Munster Athletics website.
Nice call by the AAI. More paperwork but worth it for a safer race. Now as a huge amount of races do not have a AAI permit and this will mean nothing to them. Maybe its about time the AAI put a proper fixture list up on there main web page given all the races they have been granted permits. The current listing is rubbish. http://www.athleticsireland.ie/competition/fixtures Surely once a permit is granted it’s just a case of updating a database. An athlete can easily see what races to attend to avail of the better conditions. Just a though. Paudie
Unfortunately I feel this will only stand to reduce the amount of permitted races and not do anything to increase the quality. As it stands today a permit seems to mean very very little. As someone that is involved in a lot of races I have come across lots of permitted events which are badly run and quite frankly dangerous. I have been at numerous permitted events where very young kids have participated when the rules clearly state 10k and up must be over 18. There does not appear to be any accountability or follow up on events that are issued permits and it comes across as more of a money making exercise. Compare the AAI system to triathlon Ireland and they are worlds apart. If you attend a TI sanctioned event you know it is going to be good quality. Organisers are held accountable to what they state on a permit application. They also have the added bonus of being able to award National Series status to the really good ones.
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Nice call by the AAI. More paperwork but worth it for a safer race.
Now as a huge amount of races do not have a AAI permit and this will mean nothing to them. Maybe its about time the AAI put a proper fixture list up on there main web page given all the races they have been granted permits. The current listing is rubbish. http://www.athleticsireland.ie/competition/fixtures
Surely once a permit is granted it’s just a case of updating a database. An athlete can easily see what races to attend to avail of the better conditions.
Just a though.
Paudie
Unfortunately I feel this will only stand to reduce the amount of permitted races and not do anything to increase the quality. As it stands today a permit seems to mean very very little. As someone that is involved in a lot of races I have come across lots of permitted events which are badly run and quite frankly dangerous. I have been at numerous permitted events where very young kids have participated when the rules clearly state 10k and up must be over 18.
There does not appear to be any accountability or follow up on events that are issued permits and it comes across as more of a money making exercise.
Compare the AAI system to triathlon Ireland and they are worlds apart. If you attend a TI sanctioned event you know it is going to be good quality. Organisers are held accountable to what they state on a permit application. They also have the added bonus of being able to award National Series status to the really good ones.
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