mens mini marathon

thirstywork

think its on this weekend.anyone doing it?

dtipp

Ya. Entered today.

Hope there's a decent crowd, though hopefully nothing like the cattle mart that was the Great Ireland Run.

It starts at 10am on Monday in the Phoenix Park.

gmurran

Doing it myself. Anyone know what course it is? I suspect it's the Aware 10K course but not sure.

thirstywork

have you got the link to enter?
id say its the aware course,did u run that gmurran?

dtipp

thirstywork wrote: »

have you got the link to enter?
id say its the aware course,did u run that gmurran?

http://www.activeeurope.com/Events/index.cfm?AC=EventDetails_V2&E=73980

I don't see anything saying what the course is.

milligank

Course is the Aware 10km.

Over 500 registered....

And you can register on the day (8 - 9.15)

Thanks

gmurran

Fantastic thanks for the update. Good course for anyone looking for a PB. Good long view of the finish at the end.

I ran 36:09 last time. Hope to take a good 40-50 seconds off that on Monday.

robinph

Didn't realise it was on already. Doing the BHAA race this weekend though so I'll just head along with the camera on Monday instead rather than running this one.

dtipp

Ran the race this morning.
Thought it was going to piss rain on us all, but it dried up almost right at 10am and so the soaked starters at least didn't have to contend with the rain for the race.

Very enjoyable, but have a big question.

Was it really a 10km race?
I'm pretty sure someone, somewhere has made a big mistake and that the race was, in fact, only around 9km - otherwise I had my pace completely wrong, and in fact I'm far fitter than I thought I was!

A sign saying '5km' appeared to be at the 4km spot, and a few other runners near me queried it too.

Hopefully, I'm completely wrong, but doubt it.

milligank

garmin says 9.32km

My mates says 9.31km

dtipp

Just see in another thread that a mistake by the lead car/marshall led to the race being 700m short.

So a 9.3km race.

Oh, well, can't stop the training yet so.