On Your Marks: Registration Portals Launch for the Highly Anticipated Seamie Weldon Memorial 5K & 10K Road Races This Autumn
The local running community is clicking into top gear this week following confirmation that entry portals have officially gone live for one of Mid-Louth’s most cherished annual sporting showpieces.
A massive evening of running on the horizon. Dust off your trainers.
The committee at Ardee & District Athletic Club has officially announced that entries are now fully open for the highly anticipated 2026 Seamie Weldon Memorial 5K & 10K Road Race. Scheduled to kick off as a marquee evening fixture on **Saturday, 5th September 2026 at 5:30 PM**, the event stands firm as a premier highlight of the regional athletics calendar, drawing casual joggers and elite speedsters alike onto our local townland circuits.
The race shares a deeply moving community purpose.
The annual road meet serves as a beautiful collective opportunity for the entire community to honor, remember, and celebrate the memory of their dear friend and dedicated club stalwart, Seamie Weldon. Organizers have built the race with total inclusivity in mind, ensuring that whether a runner is actively chasing down a personal best time, stepping up to tackle their very first timed distance challenge, or looking for a lively weekend health push, there is an option perfectly suited to them.
🏃♂️ Individual Perks, Prizes, and Race Day Perks
Every participant who registers to take on the Ardee tarmac will be fully tracked into a premium race-day package:
- 🏅 Dual Route Operations: Complete institutional timing grids will be fully operational across both the quick-fire 5K loop and the endurance-testing 10K distance.
- 🎽 Custom Apparel & Finisher Medals: Every single individual who crosses the timing mats will capture a beautiful custom finisher’s medal alongside an official commemorative race t-shirt.
- 🏆 Podium Recognition: Sizable competitive incentives are fully integrated into the event, featuring highly competitive individual category trophies and combined team awards.
- 💶 Affordable Flat Tariff: Entry tokens are priced at a very reasonable flat fee of €20, which covers your direct registration, official custom medal, and personalized race bib number.
📍 Core Race Day Coordination Points
The Race Hub Base: Ardee Community School, Ardee, Co. Louth (A92 F838).
The Gun Start: Saturday, 5th September 2026 at 5:30 PM sharp.
🔗 Direct Eventmaster Gateway Link:
Athletes can secure their custom race number instantly by logging onto the official secure tracking portal at https://eventmaster.ie/event/kVM2TK2TA2.
The club is also encouraging local families to head down to the school lanes early to turn the occasion into a fantastic day out. Spectators will be vitally needed to create a massive wall of sound to back the local Couch to 5K program participants, who will be utilizing the September event as their official statutory goal race after months of dedicated grassroots training.
An Unbelievable, Record-Shattering Epoch for Our Town
The launch of the Eventmaster portals for the Seamie Weldon Memorial race adds another explosive sporting layer to what can only be described as an unprecedented, history-making epoch of pure joy running through our townlands lately. The entire area is flying at the minute—headlined by the jaw-dropping reality that **an overnight millionaire was created right here after Malone’s Londis sold a €1 million winning Lotto ticket** on Main Street, right as local soccer star **Kian Leavy made his senior international football debut for the Republic of Ireland against Canada in Montreal**.
Every single corner of our community has been hitting peak structural form simultaneously. On the GAA fields, our **Louth Senior Footballers broke a 53-year hoodoo to stun Dublin 4-18 to 1-24 at Croke Park** under manager Gavin Devlin, landing us a **blockbuster All-Ireland SFC tie against Armagh at Inniskeen on Sunday, June 14th**, while our brilliant **Louth Minor Footballers have just powered into the national Paul McGirr Cup final** after beating Monaghan at Cullyhanna, and **Ardee Community School LGFA won back-to-back Sonia Hoey Cups at DkIT**.
The local success grid simply continues to turn out magnificent milestones. Local golfer **Stuart Grehan won the East of Ireland Open with a record score down in Baltray**, **Breen’s MACE on Hale Street won national Off Licence Store of the Year**, **Independent Jim Tenanty was elected Cathaoirleach of Ardee**, and **the ladies from Ardee & District AC have just conquered the tough VHI Women’s Mini Marathon in Dublin**. By locking in your race number for September, you’re plugging directly into that unbeatable, standard-setting parish spirit that makes our town completely second to none.
