Enniscorthy Training Routes

flo8s967qjh0nd

I'm visiting Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford in the next few weeks and need to squeeze in a 20 mile training run while I'm there (probably on a Saturday morning; I'm currently training for the Cork City Marathon).
Can anyone who trains around there recommend a safe route that I could use which doesn't have too much traffic, etc. I don't mind doing laps of a 6-10 mile route if that's what it needs. I'm sort of familiar with the locality, but wouldn't know enough to design my own route.
Thanks in advance.

glennhysen

I use the website www.mapmyrun.com for measuring runs.

flo8s967qjh0nd

Thanks Glenn,
I use that website too but I find that when you get 'on the ground' the terrain isn't what you imagined it would be like.
There's nothing like some local knowledge.

aoa321

if, like me you often do slightly different routes or variations on a theme, I find the USATF site very good ...

http://www.usatf.org/routes/map/

It's like mapmyrun but it's simpler and it's not cluttered with ads, and you don't have to sign in in - you can save your routes but I find it dead handy to quickly map out new routes that I might not run that often and check the mileage or kilometreage

RJC

Enniscorthy is at the junctions of the N11 and N30 - both are busy roads. You could do an out-and-back on the N11 towards ferns (dublin). It would be boring but flat and relatively safe as the road is wide. Otherwise the area off to the east might be quiet - behind vinegar hill - but the east and west are hilly.

I was in wexford last september and did a 19 miler. I was glat I had 10 euro in my shoe as I got lost and had a bit of a bonk at mile 17 so I had to fuel up on coffee and kinder buenos in a petrol station.

Slogger Jogger

You could head out from Enniscorthy on the Wexford road and just before Oilgate take a right which will bring you over Edermine bridge. Take a right on the other side and that will bring you back towards Enniscorthy. It will be a shorter loop that you need but you could add on extra miles around the town. You'll be on reasonably flat terrain.

flo8s967qjh0nd

Thanks slogger