The Breffni Challenge 2010 - Sat 31st July

2nd Row Donkey

http://www.breffnichallenge.com/

Anyone competeing in this run on the August bank holiday weekend.

Cavan->Ballinagh (7k)-Arva (+13K) = 20K

I did it last year and even though its advertised as 20km its actually 22km (when I clocked it with my car and GPS the next day).

Actually there's a road sign 500m from the start of the race thats says "Arva 24Km" but thats a whole other story - Cavan eh? :rolleyes:

2nd Row Donkey

*Bump*

Anyone at a loose end this weekend who wants to do a race/run might be interested.

Its actually 22KM in total with plenty of hills in the last 8KM

It free to enter but its for chariteeeee .. st Luke's hospital. If you can't raise a few quid before saturday you could chuck them 20quid at the registration - Thats what a lot of people did last year.

Mr Marenghi

Yeah looking at driving home Friday evening and doing for this.
Should be fun but those hills ater Ballinagh, in particular the one at Garrymore after Ballinagh football pitch should be interesting !!!!

The Hammer

this is on the same day as the Cavan Marathon (32 marathon challenge), i wonder will the races cross each others, as i think they could be using the same route as some point.

Art of Noise

I did this last year and really enjoyed it. The whole community of South Cavan seem to really get behind it. Looking forward to doing it again this Saturday.

2nd Row Donkey

Mr Marenghi wrote: »

Yeah looking at driving home Friday evening and doing for this.
Should be fun but those hills ater Ballinagh, in particular the one at Garrymore after Ballinagh football pitch should be interesting !!!!

Tell me about it! most hills are usually followed by a downhill/dip but the ones from ballinagh to Arve just seem to go up and up and up and on forever until the last kilometer.

took me 2hr 20mins last year.

i've more training done for it this year but I did 20K a few weeks ago and did'nt improve on that time much :mad:

2nd Row Donkey

The Hammer wrote: »

this is on the same day as the Cavan Marathon (32 marathon challenge), i wonder will the races cross each others, as i think they could be using the same route as some point.

Really?

Did'nt know that.

the Brefini challange starts at 2pm and should finish around 6pm for those walking etc.

2nd Row Donkey

Well then.

Did anyone else do it?

The Hammer

didn't do either, was talking to a fella who was doing the 32 marathon challenge thing alright, and he said he ran by where they were starting the breffni challange race from. but the 32 marathon crowd changed the route so as not to get caught up in the Breffni challenge.

i think you might be hard pressed to get results for the race as it was describes as "not that kinda race"

2nd Row Donkey

The Hammer wrote: »

didn't do either, was talking to a fella who was doing the 32 marathon challenge thing alright, and he said he ran by where they were starting the breffni challange race from. but the 32 marathon crowd changed the route so as not to get caught up in the Breffni challenge.

i think you might be hard pressed to get results for the race as it was describes as "not that kinda race"

Yeah... sure they don't supply timing chips which is a shame as its a well established event (10 years now) and gets a reasonable turnout - 200-300 i think.

I'm sure if they had the timing chips and actually measured the damn course properly it could be more of a success.

Mr Marenghi

I did it, really liked it, some challenging hills between Ballinagh and Arva, not really the big ones though. I think the smaller ones were underestimated and wore me out.

The atmosphere and sense of fun among the people and locals was great and tons of food at the end was a welcome sight.

The only negative was the course length, I wasn't even in Arva when my Garmin read 13miles- which i did in 1hr 44mins.

2nd Row Donkey

Mr Marenghi wrote: »

I did it, really liked it, some challenging hills between Ballinagh and Arva, not really the big ones though. I think the smaller ones were underestimated and wore me out.

The atmosphere and sense of fun among the people and locals was great and tons of food at the end was a welcome sight.

The only negative was the course length, I wasn't even in Arva when my Garmin read 13miles- which i did in 1hr 44mins.

Yeah, I think the final distance is 14.1 miles (according to my mate. I did'nt clock the route personally myself)
As hit the 13 mile mark around the same time so we must have been pretty close.