IMRA Season 2014

Ar Strae · 05-06-2014 1:45pm

Peterx wrote: »

as T runner says it is a pity that my percentages are not visible on the my results page.

This is the bit that gets me. I've put in a few requests for it. By all means keep the Enduro points, refine them, simplify them etc. But please can we not just have the percentages also visible on the results page. One more column beside the Base Points and Race Points. So in a quick (and admittedly not perfectly accurate way) I can glance down either my own results and pick out the anomalous races, or get a good feel for how a potential "mark" does across a season's racing.

The data is already there, I assume this would be a small change to have it displayed (as it used to be?) on the Results tab?

Obviously I still think the website is brilliant, the resources we are getting as members, online race vouchers mean that a race is only a fiver! For which we get recceing and devising of new courses, results, marking and demarking, marshalling and first aid support, fun-size bars and the chance for a bottle o' wine in the pub! And a website with all the race data collected and visible. It's insanely good...but just one more column on the Results page? :-)

Ro

10-06-2014 3:10pm

Anyone know about this Rogaine?

Was just asked to enter as a team with another yesterday evening. Never really thought about it before. Would have okay navigating skills, do a bit of walking so can point and go with confidence. However not great at say more technical aspects like triangulation to work out position or pacing on different terrains.

How much navigating skill is needed?

stirwell · 11-06-2014 10:16am

Anyone going to try out sorrel hill tonight?? Anyone been there before?

Ar Strae · 11-06-2014 10:24am

I'll be hitting Sorrell Hill all right. I need 3 more races to hit the seven and I am only around for 4 races so it's tight! :-)

I have apparently run Sorrell Hill twice? I don't really remember much about it other than there were amazing views over Blessington.

I see that they were planning a last minute route change to cut out some of the fire road (hat tip to RD Niamh's Carrick race) but the distance (~10k) and the ascent (~400m) stay the same.

Don't forget that there is a 200 person limit imposed on this race so get there early. Just not earlier than me!

Ronan

nerraw1111 · 11-06-2014 10:26am

It’s a nice race. A fireroad to start with before turning off into a forest onto open mountain. Going is a bit tricky in places. It’s undulated for about 3km before hitting Sorrell for about a 1km climb. Back the way you came. Some superb views of the lakes when you do manage to glance up.

ThisRegard · 11-06-2014 10:50am

Yeah, it's a nice course, weather depending it can be quite sloppy and wet in the flattish section after you climb the fence out of the forest and before you start the actual climb of Sorrel Hill itself. It's where I got one of my IMRA injuries. Stood in a bog pool but there was a rock beneath it which I slipped on and the rock then proceed to act like a cheese slicer along my shin.

Any change that cuts down on fireroad is always to be welcomed !

Peterx · 11-06-2014 11:17am

nerraw1111 wrote: »

It’s a nice race. A fireroad to start with before turning off into a forest onto open mountain. Going is a bit tricky in places. It’s undulated for about 3km before hitting Sorrell for about a 1km climb. Back the way you came. Some superb views of the lakes when you do manage to glance up.

It's a good old fashioned out and back race. Very handy for the seeing where lads are as they come flying past.
There's a lake view???

axe2grind · 11-06-2014 11:46am

Peterx wrote: »

There's a lake view???

Reserved for those at the back

Peterx · 11-06-2014 12:01pm

axe2grind wrote: »

Reserved for those at the back

I spend a lot of time in hillruns looking at backs

nerraw1111 · 11-06-2014 12:13pm

Feels like a waste to run all that way and not sneak a look....which may explain my number of falls this year.

nerraw1111 · 12-06-2014 10:38am

Well that was a great evening for a run. That’s what Wednesdays are all about, blue skies, open mountain, lake views

and a bit of bog

.

Great race for topping up the vitamin D levels.

nolinejudge · 12-06-2014 12:22pm

nerraw1111 wrote: »

Well that was a great evening for a run. That’s what Wednesdays are all about, blue skies, open mountain, lake views and a bit of bog .

Great race for topping up the vitamin D levels.

You had a cracking run and no falls.

Great view coming down.

summit2summit · 12-06-2014 4:20pm

Great race last night. Great route, views and weather!

johnruns · 16-06-2014 7:33pm

Class running by Rathfarnhams Mark Ryan last weekend gold medal at the European Masters.

nerraw1111 · 17-06-2014 10:41am

Careful now, it's a jungle out there.

Details have emerged about the rescue of two hillwalkers who became trapped in a forest of Rhododendron plants in the Knockmealdown Mountains

Jimmy Barry of the South Eastern Mountain Rescue said it took two hours to battle through 400 meters of jungle-like conditions to reach the couple....He said the team was "exhausted" following the rescue

http://www.rte.ie/news/2014/0617/624367-rhododendron-rescue/

PaulieC · 17-06-2014 10:58am

nerraw1111 wrote: »

Careful now, it's a jungle out there.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2014/0617/624367-rhododendron-rescue/

Heard that on the news this morning. Must've been embarrassing to get lost in a flowerbed

summit2summit · 22-06-2014 10:55pm

Random question, would you prefer a buff or technical tshirt?

nolinejudge · 23-06-2014 6:44am

summit2summit wrote: »

Random question, would you prefer a buff or technical tshirt?

I have lots of both at this stage. A good quality tee will get more use than a buff with me.

Enduro · 23-06-2014 9:13am

Buffs are useless for me. Have about 6. Use none.

Rogue Runner · 23-06-2014 9:29am

summit2summit wrote: »

Random question, would you prefer a buff or technical tshirt?

Tshirt for me. Have a Buff and would say I use it about 2 or 3 times all year.

axe2grind · 23-06-2014 9:48am

Don't use buffs

23-06-2014 10:43am

Great outing Saturday. B.harte here came up with a sea to summit route taking in Carrauntoohil, so at 5am 5 of us set off from the beach at Rossbeigh. 45km and 1,800+ metres of ascending later in glorious weather and surroundings we ended up back at the Climbers Inn in Glencar.

b.harte · 24-06-2014 10:10pm

[Deleted User] wrote: »

so at 5am 5 of us set off from the beach at Rossbeigh. 45km and 1,800+ metres of ascending later in glorious weather and surroundings we ended up back at the Climbers Inn in Glencar.

We will have to start earlier next year :-)
Can't imagine we will get Caher as dry again.

25-06-2014 10:11am

b.harte wrote: »

We will have to start earlier next year :-)
Can't imagine we will get Caher as dry again.

It's rarely that glorious, but on the other hand the Reeks are not bad for weather, more clear days than Mount Brandon, Mweelrea, Hungry Hill and other great summits that are pretty much on the sea in the west and south west. The IMRA run this year was in very good weather.

nerraw1111 · 03-07-2014 11:04am

Great race last night, the organisers came up with a fantastic route, taking in four summits of Seefin, skirting seefingan, Corrig and Seehan. And not a fire road in sight.

Mostly dry on top besides the odd bog of doom. Lovely open mountain. Went out a bit too fast myself and suffered a bit in early stages.

paulocon2 · 04-07-2014 11:42pm

nerraw1111 wrote: »

Great race last night, the organisers came up with a fantastic route, taking in four summits of Seefin, skirting seefingan, Corrig and Seehan. And not a fire road in sight.

Mostly dry on top besides the odd bog of doom. Lovely open mountain. Went out a bit too fast myself and suffered a bit in early stages.

Great race and loved the new route, much better that the out and back from a couple of years back. Was glad of the dry ground for the crossing from Seefingan to Corrig. The descent of Seefingan on the soft bouncy ground is amazing and the descent to the finish was also very enjoyable.

Roll on Ballinastoe next week!

nerraw1111 · 06-07-2014 7:46pm

Another great race today. Similar route to Wednesday but with Kippure added on.

Got lucky with the weather with superb views and dry conditions. Seefingan to Kippure was brilliant. Lots of peat hags which took a real effort. From there back to Corrig mountain. About 600 metres from end, I went right instead of left and added an extra km or so.

The winner did the 13 miles in under 2 hours. Amazing stuff given it was all open mountain.

summit2summit · 07-07-2014 11:26am

Hi all, Run the Line is back this Nov 29th. Early bird price on offer till end of July. runtheline.ie

ThisRegard · 07-07-2014 12:19pm

Same courses as last year Summit ? The shorter course was great, didn't have it in me at the time to do the longer one.

summit2summit · 07-07-2014 12:32pm

ThisRegard wrote: »

Same courses as last year Summit ? The shorter course was great, didn't have it in me at the time to do the longer one.

The longer route has a minor change near the Tibradden Ridge (see updated map) but other than that the route is the same. The new section this year is some of the nicest trail I have ever run in Dublin

nerraw1111 · 23-07-2014 5:30pm

It's no Sugar Loaf - Alaska's famous Mt Marathon race.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHIxBCLi8jQ

Peterx · 08-08-2014 11:07am

Massive weekend of domestic and international Irish hillrunning on the horizon kids.
The Irish Championship comes down to the final race with 3 lads all with a serious chance of the win on Galtymore. I was in this very position before and it's EXCITING. So it is.
That's on Sunday and with a very unfortunate scheduling clash we have the trial race for the Uphill World Championships on Saturday in Djouce Woods.

At least back in my one glorious year of fitness (fado fado) I had a week between the Irish Champs and the Internationals. The same weekend makes it next to impossible to combine the two unless your name is John or Robbie.

I have become one of those ould lads that talks about "their" time, back in the day! YUK...:D

Slogger Jogger · 08-08-2014 12:15pm

unfortunate scheduling clash alright. It happens often enough that Irish Champs events clash with a trial so either event is potentially being diminished by not getting all the main names to the same race. A pity.

Galtees should be good alright. It will be particularly interesting if the mist is down and weather is bad.

Peterx · 09-08-2014 7:08pm

Strong running by Brian MacMahon saw him win the trial race on a dry Djouce today in 31:50. Not far behind was Ian Conroy, just back from training in Italy with Brian Furey. James Kevan and Tom Hogan took 3rd and 4th.
The Leinster League joint champions Des Kennedy and Brian Furey came 5th and 6th in about 35 minutes - about 12~15 seconds between them. Killian Mooney had a storming run in the junior race and was ahead of Tom/Des/Brian to the summit.
About 35 minutes is 110% of Brian's time so hopefully (in my opinion) Des will be sent. Tim O'Donohue may or may not be either pre-selected or available.

A hard year and various injuries caught up with Barry Minnock, Emmet Jennings and Robert Malseed who all missed out on selection. I was even further back but at least I had a good view of the fight for the minor placings.
In the women there was a lot of pre selection and with Sarah Mulligan on volunteer duties after her elevation to the marathon (well done) Emma Donlon beat Laura O'Shaughnessy and Catherine O'Connor.
Fair play to the volunteers, it is a pity more people don't attend trial races.

Peterx · 10-08-2014 10:32pm

Well done to Bernard, Jason and Tom on filling out the Irish Champs podium.

11-08-2014 10:14am

I survived Galtymore '14!

Awful weather. Gales, hailstone, sleet, little or no visibility, saw a few tumbles as side of Galtymore was like water slide.

All in all, a great day out!

Slogger Jogger · 28-08-2014 9:38am

Nav challenge this Sunday down my neck of the woods. As surveyor in chief I'd recommend it, particularly the longer of the 2 course options, which should give you about 18k of very varied hill running, unless you managed to find shortcuts that I haven't anticipated.

ocnoc · 31-08-2014 7:41pm

18.2km with 700m of the vertical stuff.
Highly enjoyable!

climbhigh · 02-09-2014 10:51pm

Great run by Killian Mooney in the WMRA Grand Prix race in Austria on Sunday - just behind a junior who got 4th in the 2013 Europeans and ahead of the junior who got 4th in the 2014 Europeans. Ian Conroy had an excellent run also.

See http://www.saalfelden-leogang.com/fileadmin/content_sale/events/asitzgipfelberglauf/2014/2014_asitzgipfelberglauf.pdf

climbhigh · 02-09-2014 11:47pm

Photo of Sarah Tunstall (GBR) in WMRA Grand Prix race.

climbhigh · 08-09-2014 11:55pm

Mark Ryan (Rathfarnham) had an excellent run in the M35 category in the World Masters to win a bronze medal. The Irish M35 team also won bronze thanks to support from Peter O’Farrell and Paul Fleming – all three scorers are from Rathfarnham. Martin McDonald (North Laois) won bronze in the M55 category. Photo courtesy of Peter O'Farrell.

Peterx · 10-09-2014 10:50am

climbhigh wrote: »

Mark Ryan (Rathfarnham) had an excellent run in the M35 category in the World Masters to win a bronze medal. The Irish M35 team also won bronze thanks to support from Peter O’Farrell and Paul Fleming – all three scorers are from Rathfarnham. Martin McDonald (North Laois) won bronze in the M55 category. Photo courtesy of Peter O'Farrell.

Good man Climbhigh. Promotion works.

Lads and Ladies,

The masters trip away is a fantastic weekend in it's own right. Getting organised enough to bring three or four lads to make up a team simply adds another layer to the onion of fun involved.

In our case (Rathfarnham/M35) we knew we had a potential high scorer in Mark Ryan and put the word out in the club/IMRA that there were medals to be won. This was Paul Fleming's first masters hillrunning event and he took home a medal. Paul is a very talented road and track runner who will no doubt go back to the track next year as he will be at the "good" end of a new age category. John Kelly from Cappawhite came which provided competition for the scoring places, this drives performance upwards. Barry Minnock if available may have helped translate bronze to silver and alchemists the world over would be queuing at his door

The message is:
It's in Wales next year. Get a strong team together and head over. It's gonna be awesome, it's gonna be emotional, there will be Lego movie songs to be sung.

Peterx · 12-09-2014 8:18am

Best of luck to the Irish Teams heading out the senior WMRA hillrunning World champs in Italy today.

climbhigh · 13-09-2014 10:09pm

Live streaming of World championships: http://www.teleboario.com/tbonair-diretta-in-streaming/

For an uphill race, there is a lot of technical descent! Junior men's race is at 10:00 Italian time

Peterx · 18-09-2014 2:22pm

Sweet grud, the course for World mountain championships in Italy looked horrible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJZRYDHykr8

ThisRegard · 18-09-2014 2:27pm

A run up a quarry ? Why on earth considering the beautiful mountains Italy has !!

climbhigh · 21-09-2014 10:14pm

'twas a marble quarry - had they lost their marbles!

IMRA hosted the British and Irish Junior Championships yesterday. Photos here:

Woodentops (Dave & Eileen Woodhead):
https://picasaweb.google.com/110439573756197443848/HomeInternationalSet1#
https://picasaweb.google.com/110439573756197443848/HomeInternationalSet2#

Under 17: https://www.flickr.com/photos/24280411@N06/sets/72157647776522296/
Under 20: https://www.flickr.com/photos/24280411@N06/sets/72157647417478277/

nerraw1111 · 26-09-2014 1:10pm

Superb video of Sugarloaf.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58TgAG930cc

Should get someone to follow the lead runners down in the IMRA race

summit2summit · 16-10-2014 11:41am

RTL registration will close at midnight on the 26th of November. This year’s event will see the introduction of a cap on runners so get signed up early to avoid disappointment. www.runtheline.ie/register

Thanks

Gareth

summit2summit · 18-11-2014 4:49pm

summit2summit wrote: »

RTL registration will close at midnight on the 26th of November. This year’s event will see the introduction of a cap on runners so get signed up early to avoid disappointment. www.runtheline.ie/register

Thanks

Gareth

Last 25 places going fast!

IMRA Season 2014

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