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Killarney marathon/half

  • 08-05-2015 10:26am
    #1
    kookiebrew
    Registered Users Posts: 236 ✭✭


    hi guys and girls, looking like I'm gonna enter the Killarney half, has anyone here done it before... If so is it hilly or is it a good course to attempt a pb...


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  • #2
    Sparkles2012
    Registered Users Posts: 197 ✭✭Sparkles2012


    Which race in Killarney are you doing?


    http://killarneymarathonofthelakes.com/

    http://runkillarney.com/


  • #3
    kookiebrew
    Registered Users Posts: 236 ✭✭kookiebrew


    Run Killarney on 18th July, didn't know there was two ��


  • #4
    TFBubendorfer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,340 ✭✭✭TFBubendorfer


    Why don't you check out the elevation profile on their website?

    http://snippets.mapmycdn.com/routes/view/embedded/598449632?width=600&height=400&elevation=true&info=true&line_color=E60f0bdb&rgbhex=DB0B0E&distance_markers=1&unit_type=imperial&map_mode=ROADMAP&last_updated=2014-12-18T04:23:02-06:00

    The half is very much downhill for the first 6 miles. There is a bit of a drag at mile 8 but no major hills. It's a potentially fast course because of the fast miles at the beginning but it will feel tough once the roads evens out because all those downhill miles will be hard on your quads.


  • #5
    kookiebrew
    Registered Users Posts: 236 ✭✭kookiebrew


    Hahaha thanks TFB should have checked that. Friend of mine is doing it and asked me if I was interested. Haven't booked it yet but prob will do it... Looks a beautiful course with great scenery. I like the sound of no major hills too :))


  • #6
    dintbo
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    It's a stunning race scenery wise but don't underestimate what the downhill miles can do to your legs. I didn't do nearly enough hill work before it last year and really paid the price!


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  • #7
    kookiebrew
    Registered Users Posts: 236 ✭✭kookiebrew


    Thanks dintbo I know downhill runs can be as bad if not worse on your legs than uphill if your not used to them....will have to find some hills to train on...


  • #8
    chrislad
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    Might see you there as this is on my radar too :D


  • #9
    kookiebrew
    Registered Users Posts: 236 ✭✭kookiebrew


    Nice one, I'm sure there will be a thread going leading up to it...


  • #10
    opus
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    TFBubendorfer wrote: »
    The half is very much downhill for the first 6 miles. There is a bit of a drag at mile 8 but no major hills. It's a potentially fast course because of the fast miles at the beginning but it will feel tough once the roads evens out because all those downhill miles will be hard on your quads.

    I remember doing that course when they had the strangely termed Maxi Marathon (15m) event. Was laughing with all the downhill running just with the sense of speed for the first ~10m of the course, wasn't laughing afterwards of course when the slightest bit of downhill walking around hurt like hell!


  • #11
    lostintipp
    Registered Users Posts: 29 ✭lostintipp


    I see the lakes one is on next week, has anyone done this?
    I have never heard of it but it looks fairly reasonably priced and the course does not look too difficult, is it worth going to?


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  • #12
    TFBubendorfer
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    lostintipp wrote: »
    I see the lakes one is on next week, has anyone done this?
    I have never heard of it but it looks fairly reasonably priced and the course does not look too difficult, is it worth going to?

    It's a small enough race (about 100 runners when I did it 2 years ago), doing 3 laps in the National Park. The scenery is stunning, organisation was fine and I very much enjoyed it.

    It's a very reasonably priced marathon as well, which gets some bonus points.


  • #13
    skittles8710
    Registered Users Posts: 653 ✭✭✭skittles8710


    TFBubendorfer wrote: »
    It's a small enough race (about 100 runners when I did it 2 years ago), doing 3 laps in the National Park. The scenery is stunning, organisation was fine and I very much enjoyed it.

    It's a very reasonably priced marathon as well, which gets some bonus points.

    Second the above. I did the half last year was well organised , stunning scenery and pacers were a bonus I wasn't expecting for such a small crowd.. Definitely recommend it


  • #14
    lostintipp
    Registered Users Posts: 29 ✭lostintipp


    I decided to go and do this last Saturday and its a fantastic event. The price is great value, the course is good, stewards were good and the tea and sandwiches after were fantastic, with a medal and t-shirt thrown in.

    Not sure why more people are not doing this run but when i compare running Limerick the previous year to this there is no contest - Killarney national park or Raheen Industrial estate....mmmm hard choice


  • #15
    kookiebrew
    Registered Users Posts: 236 ✭✭kookiebrew


    Is there anyone signed up for this race... booked last night after seeing a price increase from today... training has been going great for me..hoping for a sub 1:40 and broke the 45 min 10k last week on my first attempt so all looking good...


  • #16
    TFBubendorfer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,340 ✭✭✭TFBubendorfer


    kookiebrew wrote: »
    Is there anyone signed up for this race... booked last night after seeing a price increase from today... training has been going great for me..hoping for a sub 1:40 and broke the 45 min 10k last week on my first attempt so all looking good...

    I'm doing the full.

    A 1:40 half is roughly equivalent to a 45 min 10k, and considering it's a downhill course you're certainly in with a chance - as long as you don't blow your quads on the downhill miles.


  • #17
    kookiebrew
    Registered Users Posts: 236 ✭✭kookiebrew


    TFBubendorfer wrote: »
    I'm doing the full.

    A 1:40 half is roughly equivalent to a 45 min 10k, and considering it's a downhill course you're certainly in with a chance - as long as you don't blow your quads on the downhill miles.

    Best of luck with the full...managed to get a B&B today close to gleneagles too so happy days... If the weather is any bit decent will do a mini tour of Kerry and head back up the coast, get the ferry across to Clare and back up to Mayo that way... Wife has the week off work and daughter off school, bring our camping gear and make a few stops all depending on weather of course....


  • #18
    Notwork Error
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    TFBubendorfer wrote: »
    I'm doing the full.

    A 1:40 half is roughly equivalent to a 45 min 10k, and considering it's a downhill course you're certainly in with a chance - as long as you don't blow your quads on the downhill miles.

    Are you pacing or racing TFB? What's the target?

    I'm hoping to do the 10k. Had a slight sprain of ankle at the weekend but should hopefully be back in time for a good shot at this. PB'd there last year and loved the course and the afters. Can't wait for this one.


  • #19
    TFBubendorfer
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    Notwork Error wrote: »
    Are you pacing or racing TFB? What's the target?

    Neither. I'm doing it as a training run, somewhere between 3:15 and 3:30, depending how I feel like on the day.


  • #20
    chrislad
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    I signed up for this as I'm in the area for a few days. I'm just using it as a LSR so my time won't be great, but I've heard lovely things about the course, so hopefully the weather will be there to match the scenery.


  • #21
    kookiebrew
    Registered Users Posts: 236 ✭✭kookiebrew


    Back home after a great few days in Killarney... You guys weren't wrong about how hard the downhills affect you... Coasted the first 7 miles then hit a few easy enough hills and found my legs were zapped of energy... Found the last few miles a real struggle but managed to come in at 1:37:08 well under my goal of 1:40... Course was beautiful and weather turned out great in the end, even though it was cold and wet at Molls Gap... It's certainly a race I'd recommend just for the scenery alone... Hats off to anyone who did the full marathon, drove the course on Friday and looked very hilly up to Molls Gap...only downer was the kids run had been cancelled, nothing on the website about this and had a very disappointed 7 yr old who was so looking forward to getting her medal... Next up for me will prob be Galway Bay Half in Oct or might do a few 10ks in between now and then


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  • #22
    diego_b
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    I ran the half today in Killarney...my race report is here if you would like to read it.


  • #23
    kookiebrew
    Registered Users Posts: 236 ✭✭kookiebrew


    diego_b wrote: »
    I ran the half today in Killarney...my race report is here if you would like to read it.

    Nice report Diego, well done on getting your pb... If I could rerun the race I might have actually gone a bit faster down the hills, might have made up two mins and came in under the 1:35 but that's me just nitpicking...actually tried to take it easy coming down and save something for later, I really was amazed how much all the downhill affected me legs though, very deceiving indeed..


  • #24
    chrislad
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    My report is here

    My son was very disappointed about the kids race too. I was told it was due to lack of interest - how did they gauge interest when it was register on the day?!?


  • #25
    diego_b
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    kookiebrew wrote:
    Nice report Diego, well done on getting your pb... If I could rerun the race I might have actually gone a bit faster down the hills, might have made up two mins and came in under the 1:35 but that's me just nitpicking...actually tried to take it easy coming down and save something for later, I really was amazed how much all the downhill affected me legs though, very deceiving indeed..

    Thanks, my quads fairly stiff today but got out for a short 3 miles and they'll be fine. I was expecting worse from the hills with how my legs would feel when it leveled. Very hard to call though and not overdo like!


  • #26
    kookiebrew
    Registered Users Posts: 236 ✭✭kookiebrew


    chrislad wrote: »
    My report is here

    My son was very disappointed about the kids race too. I was told it was due to lack of interest - how did they gauge interest when it was register on the day?!?

    Nice report Chris, didn't find out about the kids race until they tried to enter, could have sent out something on Facebook or email if the decided to cancel it... And yea totally agree how did they know how much interest was there if it was a register on the day...


  • #27
    kookiebrew
    Registered Users Posts: 236 ✭✭kookiebrew


    diego_b wrote: »
    Thanks, my quads fairly stiff today but got out for a short 3 miles and they'll be fine. I was expecting worse from the hills with how my legs would feel when it leveled. Very hard to call though and not overdo like!

    Yea my quads felt it today too, not long back from a 6 miler and loads of stretching after it... Was real hard to gauge how fast to go down the hills, there was a hill in the park, small but kinda steep I remember letting out a few f***s going over that, thought the end would never come


  • #28
    diego_b
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    Haha same here, I think I met a jaunting cart on that hill or another and I was saying f this now anyways I'm done here.


  • #29
    kookiebrew
    Registered Users Posts: 236 ✭✭kookiebrew


    Was a jaunting cart ahead of me on the final stretch after the park had a laugh to myself thinking will I jump on the back of it lol


  • #30
    chrislad
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    kookiebrew wrote: »
    Yea my quads felt it today too, not long back from a 6 miler and loads of stretching after it... Was real hard to gauge how fast to go down the hills, there was a hill in the park, small but kinda steep I remember letting out a few f***s going over that, thought the end would never come

    Mine are the same. They're not painful to the point where I can't run, but they're definitely tender. I did a 3 mile today, and I was fine for it. Did a bit of foam rolling (it wasn't pleasant so it probably helped!) and icing today. Should be fine for my next run on Tuesday.


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  • #31
    Alfie Tupper
    Registered Users Posts: 70 ✭✭Alfie Tupper


    Good to hear I'm not the only one with sore quads.
    I ran as a pacer for the half on Saturday and thoroughly enjoyed it ( even the bit waiting at Molls Gap trying to hang on to two balloons)
    I agree as well with kookiebrew about the effects of the downhill running. We set off with a group of about 20 runners but had lost most of them by mile 7 as they struggled to keep up to the pace after the downhill section.
    It was a well organised run with the added bonus of some fantastic scenery.


  • #32
    innuendo141
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    I completed the full on Saturday and must say its been my favourite marathon so far. The views were out of this world (plus the bonus mini game of is it a rock/sheep on the way to Molls Gap).

    Delighted I managed to scrape 2 seconds off my PB getting in at 3:47:18.

    Looking forward to Dingle.


  • #33
    kookiebrew
    Registered Users Posts: 236 ✭✭kookiebrew


    Alfie Tupper wrote: »
    Good to hear I'm not the only one with sore quads.
    I ran as a pacer for the half on Saturday and thoroughly enjoyed it ( even the bit waiting at Molls Gap trying to hang on to two balloons)
    I agree as well with kookiebrew about the effects of the downhill running. We set off with a group of about 20 runners but had lost most of them by mile 7 as they struggled to keep up to the pace after the downhill section.
    It was a well organised run with the added bonus of some fantastic scenery.

    Well done on the pacing Alfie, were you the one who's balloon burst outside avoca before the race hehe... Agree about it being well organised and scenery was super, and they used a bit of common sense to start the race a few mins early with the rain just starting...


  • #34
    kookiebrew
    Registered Users Posts: 236 ✭✭kookiebrew


    innuendo141 wrote: »
    I completed the full on Saturday and must say its been my favourite marathon so far. The views were out of this world (plus the bonus mini game of is it a rock/sheep on the way to Molls Gap).

    Delighted I managed to scrape 2 seconds off my PB getting in at 3:47:18.

    Looking forward to Dingle.

    Well done on getting a pb on the full course, drove from sneem to molls gap on Friday and those hills looked cruel... I'd say the six miles or so downhill section were a godsend to you...


  • #35
    chrislad
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    kookiebrew wrote: »
    Well done on the pacing Alfie, were you the one who's balloon burst outside avoca before the race hehe... Agree about it being well organised and scenery was super, and they used a bit of common sense to start the race a few mins early with the rain just starting...

    Pity the common sense didn't extend to the use of balloons! My pacers were getting attacked with them!


  • #36
    Alfie Tupper
    Registered Users Posts: 70 ✭✭Alfie Tupper


    chrislad wrote: »
    Pity the common sense didn't extend to the use of balloons! My pacers were getting attacked with them!

    in a moment of madness we decided to go with two balloons each thinking that we'd have a back up in case one burst or got lost to the wind, this led to a lot swearing in the first few miles as one or other of the balloons seemed to be constantly trying to strangle me :-)


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  • #37
    eliwallach
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    Agree with all of the above re the downhill taking it's toll on the legs later in the race. I tried to be as conservative as I could on the first 6 miles, but it was nigh on impossible to hold back. Downhill section definitely worth 3 mins cushion. I was grimly hanging on for dear life in the National Park, with very little company ( in fact I was unsure of which way to go on a few occasions, and I ran into the Killarney Parkrun running against me). Got home in 1:31 plus some change. Wasn't going to count it as a PB due to the generous downhill at the start, but my legs took such a pounding and that difficult last 3 miles through the park, I 'll take it.


  • #38
    kookiebrew
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    eliwallach wrote: »
    Agree with all of the above re the downhill taking it's toll on the legs later in the race. I tried to be as conservative as I could on the first 6 miles, but it was nigh on impossible to hold back. Downhill section definitely worth 3 mins cushion. I was grimly hanging on for dear life in the National Park, with very little company ( in fact I was unsure of which way to go on a few occasions, and I ran into the Killarney Parkrun running against me). Got home in 1:31 plus some change. Wasn't going to count it as a PB due to the generous downhill at the start, but my legs took such a pounding and that difficult last 3 miles through the park, I 'll take it.

    Hahaha I felt the same about my pb, all the downhill at the start seemed like cheating but the final few miles sure made up for it. Was a real tough course overall and my quads are still not back to normal after it.


  • #39
    chrislad
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    I gave my quads a good foam roaming on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, and they were back to normal by my run on Tuesday evening, thankfully. It hurt like hell, so I know it worked! I had awful shin problems that thankfully weren't affected by the run. It's an annoying niggle that's still there but goes as soon as I start running.


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