BHAA Irish Life & Permanent 3000m track on Weds, 13 Aug at 7:30pm

rdunne · 11-08-2008 9:43am #1

The next race is a 3000m track race in Irishtown Stadium, Ringsend, Dublin 4. The first race will kick off at 7:30pm and registration commences at 6pm for all races. Click here for the flyer - please feel free to put this on your work noticeboard to encourage colleagues to partake.

The races will be based on BHAA standards. We will include non-BHAA members in the appropriate race depending on their 3k time prediction. Details of the race prediction will be available on the night.

more details at http://www.bhaa.ie
mail us at info@bhaa.ie

yours in sport
Richard

cfitz · 11-08-2008 9:59am

Hi Richard,

Do you have a breakdown of what the different grades will be? Also will the order be: slowest race first ... fastest race last?

rdunne · 11-08-2008 10:50am

cfitz wrote: »

Hi Richard,

Do you have a breakdown of what the different grades will be? Also will the order be: slowest race first ... fastest race last?

I do indeed.
Depending on turnout we may decide to combine races.

Race 1 Men Standards 22 – 30 and Ladies Standards 17 – 30
Race 2 Men Standards 17 -21 and Ladies Standards 2 – 16
Race 3 Men Standards 14 – 16
Race 4 Men Standards 11 – 13
Race 5 Men Standards 8 - 10
Race 6 Men Standards 2 - 7

the order will be slowest race first

shels4ever · 11-08-2008 11:56am

Great , just back from hol's today , I guess the race will replace my speed work session this week.

ZiggyStardust · 13-08-2008 12:43pm

Hi guys,

I've never been out to this track before, and although I know where (well generally anyway) it is, would anyone know what is the best way to get there to avoid traffic. I'll be coming from Castleknock, so can go through the park and up along the quays, or down south circular road/grand canal way. Help/info appreciated.
You still running it Shels. Which way you going?

shels4ever · 13-08-2008 12:51pm

I will be coming from the other side of the city, but if you go across the eastlink , go to the next roundabout take a right , the track is down one of the right turns between the houses jsut before the GAA club on the left( I'll park here if i can make it).

ZiggyStardust · 13-08-2008 12:54pm

Thanks shels

cfitz · 13-08-2008 1:46pm

What's the weather like in Dublin today? Any idea what state the track in Irishtown will be in?

shels4ever · 13-08-2008 2:22pm

Seems to have dried up a bit this afternoon, not sure what the east side of dublin is like now, but could be an ok evening for a painfull 3k.

ZiggyStardust · 13-08-2008 2:36pm

Just called ahead and track is fine to run on.

I think I see some blue in the sky.

cfitz · 13-08-2008 2:42pm

ZiggyStardust wrote: »

Just called ahead

Seriously?

Glad I asked now, thanks!

cfitz · 13-08-2008 10:42pm

There seems to be something a bit funny about the finishing times they had for race 5. Did anyone here hand time it? If so could you please post your times so we can compare them against the results sheet.

shels4ever · 13-08-2008 10:47pm

Was a good event tonight, first track race for me in over 10 years... went a bit mad for the first 800m and paid for it, but turns out it was my best run of the year

ZiggyStardust · 14-08-2008 6:56am

cfitz wrote: »

There seems to be something a bit funny about the finishing times they had for race 5. Did anyone here hand time it? If so could you please post your times so we can compare them against the results sheet.

Hey cfitz,
For the last race the time on the clock was ~8:40 when he crossed the line.
Was in race 3 myself and did 11:04. Quite happy with that as same as Shels, first track race in roughly 12 years.
Think I'll do the 2 miles there in 2 weeks, but will have Longford the Sunday before. See how I feel.

rdunne · 14-08-2008 8:33am

Ill post the results up on the website when i get them. As for race 5 . I think i might be able to get the winners time from him. Then you can see how that matchs with the offical time.

cfitz · 14-08-2008 9:11am

rdunne wrote: »

Ill post the results up on the website when i get them. As for race 5 . I think i might be able to get the winners time from him. Then you can see how that matchs with the offical time.

Thanks. I looked at the clock as I crossed the line and I thought I'd got a PB but the time on the results list was about 2 seconds slower than what I thought I'd got. So I'm very anxious to find out how fast I actually ran.

rdunne · 14-08-2008 9:22am

cfitz wrote: »

Thanks. I looked at the clock as I crossed the line and I thought I'd got a PB but the time on the results list was about 2 seconds slower than what I thought I'd got. So I'm very anxious to find out how fast I actually ran.

ill respond on boards instead of your mail to info@bhaa.ie

cfitz · 14-08-2008 9:49am

rdunne wrote: »

ill respond on boards instead of your mail to info@bhaa.ie

Fair enough. Can you check what the exact time was on the clock before it was rounded? The results I saw had no decimal places.

bo-sco · 14-08-2008 11:09am

I was in race 5 as well but I didn't see the results sheet. I can tell you how the results compare when they're put up on the website. I know what time was on the clock when I finished.

rdunne · 14-08-2008 11:17am

Photo's are one line . just waiting for results for you.
pic are here: http://bhaa.ie/mediagallery/album.php?aid=54&page=1

shels4ever · 14-08-2008 12:55pm

Good photos , lucky for me most of mine are of the fist 2 laps of the race.. when i was doing ok.

rdunne · 14-08-2008 1:10pm

shels4ever wrote: »

Good photos , lucky for me most of mine are of the fist 2 laps of the race.. when i was doing ok.

Yes , thanks to Peig Dunne for the Photo's

cfitz · 15-08-2008 11:35am

rdunne wrote: »

just waiting for results for you.

Any updates on this?

rdunne · 15-08-2008 12:10pm

8:39 Martin Conroy

full results are delayed due to issuses outside of our control.
We will have them as soon as we can.

cfitz · 21-08-2008 1:42pm

rdunne wrote: »

full results are delayed due to issuses outside of our control.
We will have them as soon as we can.

Any sign of these results yet?

cfitz · 29-08-2008 4:17pm

bo-sco wrote: »

I was in race 5 as well but I didn't see the results sheet. I can tell you how the results compare when they're put up on the website. I know what time was on the clock when I finished.

Hey, those results are up now, any chance you could check if your time matches up?

shels4ever · 30-08-2008 8:15pm

did you find out if you ran a pb?

bo-sco · 02-09-2008 9:04am

cfitz wrote: »

Hey, those results are up now, any chance you could check if your time matches up?

It's two seconds slower on the results than the clock

cfitz · 02-09-2008 11:20am

bo-sco wrote: »

It's two seconds slower on the results than the clock

rdunne, can you look into this? If someone started the clock late they would probably have noticed. There was a person calling splits as well. Maybe you could check with all the different people involved in the timing to see if there was some discrepancy. I'd like to know whether the time on the results is more accurate than the time on the track clock.

cfitz · 16-09-2008 11:55am

I'm starting to feel like a bit of a git bringing this back up again and again, but I'm getting no response from the BHAA. So if anyone here can help me please do!

For anyone here who ran in the A race at the BHAA 3000m in Irishtown on 13 August:
If you timed yourself, can you please compare your time with the time on the BHAA website to see if it is accurate and post your findings here.

(It seems that the clock visible on the track was showing a different time than the results showed. I want to know which (if either) was accurate.)

Thanks very much!

BHAA Irish Life & Permanent 3000m track on Weds, 13 Aug at 7:30pm

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