About Us

PEGASUS AC, COLERAINE

Pegasus AC, Coleraine was founded in 1982 and operates primarily from Coleraine Leisure Centre during the winter and Rugby Avenue Track during the summer months, although the Club will operate from other venues from time to time. The Club has 6 qualified UK Athletics coaches, namely Peter Crook a level 4 coach who coaches all events and is Head Coach to the Club; Wesley Gregg a level 2 coach covering speed events with Michael Henry together with recently qualified Shirley Park and Jason Wilson covering endurance with Alistair Kennedy covering jumps and throws. All of who are level 1 coaches.

Anyone aged from 11 years to whatever is welcome to join provided they are interested in getting involved either because they just wish to get fit or have an interest in any athletics discipline at any level.

The Club caters for all track and field events, cross country, road and mountain running at whatever standard so everyone is welcome to come and give us a try.

For anyone interested in road running a typical week would include a longish slow Sunday run, a quality Monday session which could include a 3 x 1 mile interval session or a hill session consisting of 4 – 8 sprints up a hill with a jog down, or a fartlek session which is a 5 – 6 mile run interspersed with jogging and sprinting. Tuesday would be a steady run of 5 – 9 miles, while Wednesday would be circuits in the winter or a track session in the summer. Thursday would be another steady run of between 8 – 12 miles with a rest on Fridays in preparation for a competition on Saturday.

To date the Club has had a number of athletes both junior and senior who have represented Northern Ireland at track & field, road and cross country competition.

During the summer months we have a strong track and field junior section with many athletes qualifying for the all Ireland Championships both for their school and the Club.

If you are interested in getting involved or have children who would like to try please feel free to contact either Peter Crook on 028 7035 6607 or 07711179131 or Michael Henry on 028 7035 5545 or 028 7034 1148.

Peter Crook, Chairman and Head Coach

Peter is a level 4 UK Athletics Coach specialising in endurance events but is also qualified to coach all event groups including general conditioning. Peter first qualified as a coach in 1989 and is one of four qualified coaches within the Club.

In addition, Peter is also a UK Athletics Senior Coach Tutor and tutors potential coaches to become qualified under the UK Athletics coach education programme.

Peter is also Honorary Secretary of the Ulster Sports Hall Athletics Association and works throughout Ulster with the delivery of a range of indoor athletics programmes for children aged 8 to 15 in addition to coaching his own club athletes in Coleraine. He also sits on the UK Athletics Anti Doping Policy Support Team and is their representative here in Northern Ireland for dealing with anti doping matters.