Morton mile preview and the graded meet

Woddle

Here is ecoli giving us a preview of the morton mile on Wednesday, we hope to have coverage of this and other events from the night either Wednesday night or Friday, it all depends on whether ecolis pc is compatible with my camcorder or not.
We will also hopefully be covering the nationals on the 1st and 2nd of August and much more. So who needs RTE
Thanks for this ecoli

Morton mile preview

Running Bing

Nice work lads.


Would be great to get some more coverage of Irish track races up on the net....we could have the Irish flotrack on our hands. Only a matter of time until we're videotaping shirtless workouts and backing them with obscure indie tunes:P

thirtyfoot

Good work!!

Derval O' Rourke is talking about doing the 100m flat for her tune up and comeback from injury ahead of the race in Spain at the weekend, so get there early!!!

Woddle

Running Bing wrote: »

Nice work lads.


Would be great to get some more coverage of Irish track races up on the net....we could have the Irish flotrack on our hands. Only a matter of time until we're videotaping shirtless workouts and backing them with obscure indie tunes:P

It could be a plan

fast forward to next year

me: well we're here in Belfield with RB from Boards ac, so whats the plan of todays session

RB: well I'm hoping to break my pb of 2:08 in the 800m next Wednesday, so today is all about


Can you imagine

RoyMcC

Excellent, well done both. Must try to get up there. Can you enter on the night :pac:

ecoli

RoyMcC wrote: »

Excellent, well done both. Must try to get up there. Can you enter on the night :pac:

its a normal graded meet the only races with restricted entry are th Morton mile and the development races

RoyMcC

ecoli wrote: »

its a normal graded meet the only races with restricted entry are th Morton mile and the development races

Pity, I fancied a bit of a burn-up in the mile...

TheRoadRunner

Well done lads. Can we text questions/abuse into the Woddle/ecoli hotline ?

ecoli

RoyMcC wrote: »

Pity, I fancied a bit of a burn-up in the mile...

yeah it an elite race standard of sub 4.05 was the standard to enter. Still there open 800m and 3ks if you interested?

RoyMcC

ecoli wrote: »

yeah it an elite race standard of sub 4.05 was the standard to enter. Still there open 800m and 3ks if you interested?

It was a joke ecoli - I doubt the Morton Mile people want competitors to be lapped twice

shels4ever

RoyMcC wrote: »

It was a joke ecoli - I doubt the Morton Mile people want competitors to be lapped twice

Ah go on Roy , If you run i'll run

ecoli

RoyMcC wrote: »

It was a joke ecoli - I doubt the Morton Mile people want competitors to be lapped twice

ah ya never know could always be the dark horse of the race:D

Woddle

TheRoadRunner wrote: »

Well done lads. Can we text questions/abuse into the Woddle/ecoli hotline ?

Questions to ecoli and abuse to me

DJS

Will you be videoing all the races on wednesday?

I think if you guys could get this up and running it would be fantastic irish athletics needs more coverage of meetings.

Looking forward to seeing how this develops

ecoli

DJS wrote: »

Will you be videoing all the races on wednesday?

I think if you guys could get this up and running it would be fantastic irish athletics needs more coverage of meetings.

Looking forward to seeing how this develops

Hoping to get as much coverage from the races as possible without interfering in my own warm up and race

Here is the full start list for the mile
Matt Bowser GBR
Javier Soto ESP
Chris Moss WAL
James Thie WAL
Geoff Martinson CAN
Darren Brown USA
Mark Thompson USA
Tommy Schmitz USA
Josphat Boit KEN
Sea Connolly IRL
Mark Kirwan IRL
Mark Kenneally IRL
Aidan Bailey IRL
Kevin Moriarty IRL
James McFadden IRL
Mark Hanrahan IRL

TURFMAN

The weather is looking resonable for the Morton Mile Meet tonight, so a sub 4 clocking should be on the cards.

Hopefully there will be a respectable crowd out there to create some atmosphere.

Anyone with some free time this evening could do worse than go and have a look at some top class international athletes

Stupid_Private

TURFMAN wrote: »

The weather is looking resonable for the Morton Mile Meet tonight, so a sub 4 clocking should be on the cards.

Hopefully there will be a respectable crowd out there to create some atmosphere.

Anyone with some free time this evening could do worse than go and have a look at some top class international athletes

Now you've gone and cursed the weather! I hope you're proud!!! I'd reckon every day in Dublin for the past week it's been sunny in the morning until about 11, and then it get's sh1te. We seem to have pushed past 11 today but with the schizophrenic weather that is Ireland's that means nothing!

Stupid_Private

dammit... now its raining!

shels4ever

Stupid_Private wrote: »

dammit... now its raining!

No its not , its sunny

Running Bing

Stupid_Private wrote: »

Now you've gone and cursed the weather! I hope you're proud!!! I'd reckon every day in Dublin for the past week it's been sunny in the morning until about 11, and then it get's sh1te. We seem to have pushed past 11 today but with the schizophrenic weather that is Ireland's that means nothing!

Ah but it usually gets a bit better then in the evening. Just part of the joy of living in this tropical paradise island we call Eire.:P

ecoli

Hey guys got lots of footage from the races so hoping to get them up in the morning (hopefully)

Racing Flat

Most results up on www.dublinathletics.com now. They've missed 2 800 races unfortunately. A great night of racing, some great races and finishes. Development 800 was the pick of the bunch for me.

RoyMcC

No sub-4 then Great turnout for the other track events though.

Racing Flat

Performance(s) of the night has to go to Mark Kenneally, 4.08 in the mile, followed by 8.06 in the 3000m :eek:.

Stupid_Private

Racing Flat wrote: »

Performance(s) of the night has to go to Mark Kenneally, 4.08 in the mile, followed by 8.06 in the 3000m :eek:.

Lesson of the night - don't celebrate your win until you cross the line... that lad in the 800m lost €25 on that!

I've got a few photos of the night online

thirtyfoot

Racing Flat wrote: »

. Development 800 was the pick of the bunch for me.

Fiona Kehoe really dug in and pulled out that one. On at least 4 occasions it looked like Ciara Durkan was going to take the win on the homestraight but Kehoe really dug in. 2:10 was good running for these two as both have PB's of 2:09 so they were there or thereabouts.

The mens 800 was great, the juniors really lauding it. Robinson is great. He lost it but I love his style, never say die and always give it a go. He fell at the National Indoors Senior in Belfast and got up and tried to catch the field and continue. He cuaght the field but was then banjaxed. He is only 18!! He made the classy move at 200m, going from 4th to Alan O' Brien's shoulder in the space of 5m. He blew it but Darren McBrearty never gave up. Whatever they are doing in Letterkenny is working, they have a great crop of halfmilers. We have a junior (Patterson) going to Euro Juniors in the 800m and he was only 3rd junior last night despite running close to his PB, good depth starting to come in at that age :cool:

thirtyfoot

Stupid_Private wrote: »

Lesson of the night - don't celebrate your win until you cross the line... that lad in the 800m lost €25 on that!

I've got a few photos of the night online

Great shot (number 19) of the pole vaulter Houlihan!!

ecoli

Over 220 athletes competing last night. Great to see such numbers it's what we need to see on a regular basis

Stupid_Private

Tingle wrote: »

Great shot (number 19) of the pole vaulter Houlihan!!

Cheers, I took them all from where I was sitting - If I was there primarily for photos I would have got a bit closer to the pole vault competition and got right in their faces when they were jumping!

thirtyfoot

Stupid_Private wrote: »

Cheers, I took them all from where I was sitting - If I was there primarily for photos I would have got a bit closer to the pole vault competition and got right in their faces when they were jumping!

Worked perfect for that shot, looks like he is jumping onto the terrace!!

Running Bing

Great turn out last night, and fantastic to see such a range of events (I enjoyed watching the pole vaulters).

My only criticism is I think the communication could be better. Last night the schedule was delayed, nothing wrong with that at all (especially given the reason why it was delayed) but it would be nice if they would inform athletes of the changes a bit better. It makes it very hard to judge warm ups otherwise.

RunToFart

Running Bing wrote: »

Great turn out last night, and fantastic to see such a range of events (I enjoyed watching the pole vaulters).

My only criticism is I think the communication could be better. Last night the schedule was delayed, nothing wrong with that at all (especially given the reason why it was delayed) but it would be nice if they would inform athletes of the changes a bit better. It makes it very hard to judge warm ups otherwise.

It was an excellents nights racing. Extremely enjoyable. However saying that there is nothing wrong with the event being delayed is miles wrong. There is no excuse bar some exploding of spontaneous combustion for a track meet being delayed. Why set a time table if you cant stick to it. Expecting athletes to stay warmed up for or guessing what time they should be warmed up for is really unfair.... and will affect performances. If the high performance team in the aai cared about high performance... races would run on time to give every athlete a chance to pull out a performance. Besides the excellent cork city sports this is the only other international event for track and field in ireland... surely on this one day an extra effort should have been made to run it on time...

Running Bing

RunToFart wrote: »

It was an excellents nights racing. Extremely enjoyable. However saying that there is nothing wrong with the event being delayed is miles wrong. There is no excuse bar some exploding of spontaneous combustion for a track meet being delayed. Why set a time table if you cant stick to it. Expecting athletes to stay warmed up for or guessing what time they should be warmed up for is really unfair.... and will affect performances. If the high performance team in the aai cared about high performance... races would run on time to give every athlete a chance to pull out a performance. Besides the excellent cork city sports this is the only other international event for track and field in ireland... surely on this one day an extra effort should have been made to run it on time...

well I think last night the reason it was delayed was because so many turned up, more than they were expecting. Maybe it should've been planned better but I can forgive that.

Thing that annoys me though is they dont make any effort to inform people and just expect you to be warmed up. As I said on another thread, have a big board and update it with the schedule and announce changes over loudspeaker in between events.

The other thing I noticed last time is that some races were merged and so the schedule was moved forward. I dont see why they do this? You might get the odd five minute gap here and there but why not just stick to the schedule?

I've only done two meets and I am amongst the slowest runners there so dont want to rock the boat, in general I think they are tremendously well run events, I just feel with one or two minor tweaks they could be a lot better for the athletes.

RunToFart

Agree with you entirely about informing everyone. The board is a good idea but hard to implement. Nick on the mike could easily keep everyone updated....

Woddle

Here is the first of the uploads, again a big thanks to ecoli, he crashed his car to make this happen

Womens 100m

More to follow

Woddle

Here is the first of the uploads, again a big thanks to ecoli, he crashed his car to make this happen

Womens 100m
Mens 100m

More to follow

DJS

Correction WE crashed to get these films, keep them coming man! Im dying to see my 800m race

DJS

Eh is it just me or does it say error has occured for the mens 100m

Woddle

DJS wrote: »

Eh is it just me or does it say error has occured for the mens 100m

Its still processing in youtube, should be along shortly, I just threw up the link in advance as I need to leg it to Wexford now, will put the rest up sometime next week, I've no internet connection in Wex and I've been tyring to upload pics aswell so my apologies for the delay, I'll make sure I run a tighter ship for the nationals

Also the video quality will improve once its fully processed.

DJS

Awh lads, u need to get them up quicker! U shud have emailed me the video's and I would have had them up the next morning

Woddle

DJS wrote: »

Awh lads, u need to get them up quicker! U shud have emailed me the video's and I would have had them up the next morning

Thats gratitude

Only messing you have a fair point but I am actually on holidays in Wexford with no connection, only came up yesterday to drop my little brother home and take pics of the 5 miler and poor ecoli has had car trouble and work to contend with. Will sort it out for next time, its a learning experience in time management.

ecoli

DJS wrote: »

Awh lads, u need to get them up quicker! U shud have emailed me the video's and I would have had them up the next morning

:mad:

Given the circumstances i think you can give me a little slack as at the moment uploading videos was the last thing on my mind

DJS

Ur excused ecoli, not woodle lol

ecoli

DJS wrote: »

Ur excused ecoli, not woodle lol

i had the cam so it all on me im afraid

RealistSpy

Well done boys keep it up. I missed the garded meeting again. I got called into work am so pissed off but i need the money

RealistSpy

All we need now is a good web developer to make a dedicated website.

Running Bing

RealistSpy wrote: »

All we need now is a good web developer to make a dedicated website.

Interesting link today on flotrack, made me think of this

http://www.flotrack.org/sc/flonetwork

Might be worth enquiring but all I know is whats written above.

p3-fitz

good job videoing them i look forward to when they all online. Yeah ecoli come on like u really slacked up nt gettin the videos up , they obviously should of been your main concern:p

thirstywork

http://www.flotrack.org/videos/coverage/view_video/235258/194337

some good interviews with thomas chammney.
looks like himself and Campbell don't like each other very much:D

Woddle

Here's a few more

Womens 100m
Mens 100m
Mens 1500m
Womens 800m race 1

Peckham

What's the subliminal split second image at the end of the women's 100m clip? Are you trying to communicate hidden messages in your race coverage?! :P