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Catherina McKiernan (Master Instructor of Chi Running)
Catherina McKiernan is regarded as one of the worlds best ever cross country runners. Born in Cornafean, County Cavan in 1969, Catherina grew up on the family farm. Her first major success came in 1988 when she won the Irish schools cross country title. She won silver in the World Cross Country championships four years in succession from 1992 to 1995. In 1994, she won the inaugural European Cross Country title. In 1992 and 1996, Catherina represented Ireland at the Olympic Games. In 1997, she moved up to the marathon and ran the fastest debut ever by a woman at the time, when she won the Berlin Marathon in a new Irish record of 2.23.44. In April 1998, she became the first Irish person to win the London Marathon. In November of the same year, she broke her own Irish record to win the Amsterdam marathon in a time of 2.22.23 which is the current Irish marathon record.If you are interested in attending any workshop before 15th May or have any queries relating to chi Running please contact Catherina by email chirunning@eircom.net or visit: http://www.catherinamckiernan.com/
Hannah Nolan / Why Weight Ireland (for free beginners advice and training plans)

Why Weight Ireland was founded by Hannah Nolan after she lost almost 8 stone through exercise and healthy eating. Hannah is also mum of 2, qualified Personal Trainer and Manager of Pat and Karl Henry Fitness Centre. Since reaching her goal weight and taking up running - Hannah has gone on to win both the Novice and Intermediate County Cross Country Championships and also placed 5th in the Kildare Marathon 2012! Hannah has provided running plans for Athletics Ireland, corporate events and also her own clients (25 of which completed the Dublin Marathon 2012 – 90% of these 1st time marathoners!) Hannah/Why Weight Ireland will provide the Run Kildare runners with a free training plan perfect for the Novice runner (contact: info@whyweightireland.ie)

Why Weight Ireland offers a completely personalised food and exercise diary to help compliment your training plan. Whether you are looking to lose weight, or simply maintain your weight and keep track of your nutritional intake during training the diary is perfect (see an example of the diary at www.whyweightireland.ie) For anyone wishing to join Why Weight Ireland Hannah is offering Run Kildare fans a 20% discount (please enter coupon code KILDARE at checkout). Please contact Hannah for more information info@whyweightireland.ie

   Hannah Nolan
George Anderson (For free Training Plans and Training Tips)

Run Republic is run by George Anderson from Kinetic Health and Fitness, a personal training & running coaching company. George develops training programs that are used to support runners training for Marathon’s in Ireland and some of the UK's largest races, from the 17000 strong field of runners taking part in the Reading Half Marathon to smaller, local 10k events. He also runs a series of live training workshops in the UK and Ireland. If you would like to be kept informed of when the next workshops are coming up, join the ever growing list of runners who receive George's regular training emails and find a training plan that suits you go to: http://www.runrepublic.ie/

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