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Training in Limerick

  • 08-01-2010 5:11pm
    #1
    martindisc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11 ✭


    Hey,

    Does anybody running in limerick know if people are allowed run on the racecourse, or on the castletroy golf course? The later is unlikely, but in some places it is allowed as far as i'm aware.

    Also does anybody know of any hilly routes, preferbly on grass or any parks around? Can only find one park, which is very small.

    Thanks


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  • #2
    Rio 2016
    Closed Accounts Posts: 178 ✭✭Rio 2016


    I doubt that you would be allowed to run on either the racecourse or the golf course and the race course would be in a very bad way after the Christrmas racing.

    I have run in Shelbourne Park for the last couple of days and found it to be perfectly safe (I hope that this isn't the park that you are refering to) as it is only 750m around. The only other place that I can think of is the UL track or on the road in the Castletroy industrial estate, which had been gritted the last time that I was there, a few days ago. The riverbank appeared to be lethal when I walked down there yesterday.

    I would recommend that you keep away from the grass for the time being. Every place seems to uneven and would only cause an injury.


  • #3
    --amadeus--
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,096 ✭✭✭--amadeus--


    The Shannon riverbank from UL down to the Corbally road is fine - small bit of ice on the white bridge over the canal but other than that it is totally fine. I did 10 on it today and didn't come close to slipping once.

    If you want to run off road you can leave UL and go right at the river at the back of the sports buildings and run a few hundred yards up and you go through a gate into a field at the back of Hamilton House. You can run by the river for a couple of miles up to some pitches. Around teh pitches and back and run past UL and you're on gravel paths all the way to the Corbally Road (about 3 miles from UL). Across teh zebra crossing and down the back of St Munchins and you have a mile on concrete paths to Corbally Cottages, up teh Mill Road (bit of a hill), left at Scoil Ide and back up to the bridge. Should be 8 - 10 miles of a loop.

    The off road bit is harder than concrete at the minute and very uneven so Rio is right it's an accident waiting to happen, your safer on the gravel paths.

    In terms of hills it depends on where in Limerick you are - plenty of them but not on grass.


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