DCM map with the luas stops

HardyEustace

Is it possible to get a map of the Dublin marathon route and the luas stops nearby it?

Have checked the website but no joy.

Krusty_Clown

Here's my DCM map from 2008. The route has changed slightly (start/finish), but is mostly accurate. If you change the map type (in the top right of the map screen) to OpenStreetMap, you can see the Red and Green Luas stops.

Hope that helps.

robinph

If your wanting to get between multiple points for cheering someone on then rent one of the Dublin Bikes for a couple of hours.

HardyEustace

robinph wrote: »

If your wanting to get between multiple points for cheering someone on then rent one of the Dublin Bikes for a couple of hours.

That sounds like a great idea. However, will just have to figure out how to avoid the route. I'd hope that I'm race savvy enough not to get in the way of people racing.

However, last year the course was covered in idiots on bikes (possibly because there were more racing due to anniversary year, maybe because of Dublin bikes). I emailed the organisers about the problem so I'd hope that they will be far stricter this year.

That said, I'd feel somewhat bad about "flouting" the rules just because I'm not racing this year and I want to cheer on my pals.

robinph

Just stay inside the route at all times and you should be fine. I did have trouble finding a bike after the start though and although there were three stations I think near St. Stephens Green there was only one bike left after I'd watched every one go past at the beginning. I still got out to the 11mile'ish point in plenty of time though and after filling up a couple of memory cards of pictures I then made it back to the centre only missing the first couple of finishers.

If your going to watch for a particular person though, rather than the taking thousands of pictrures as I was, then you've got loads of time to get around to several places.

grimbergen

A good option is Milltown luas stop - course goes right by it and if you're cheering somebody on you can be on the luas and back in town to see them finish as well. My wife was there last year and it's a good spot as it's 18 miles in approx. when the mental demons are starting to take over....

aero2k

HardyEustace wrote: »

However, last year the course was covered in idiots on bikes (possibly because there were more racing due to anniversary year, maybe because of Dublin bikes). I emailed the organisers about the problem so I'd hope that they will be far stricter this year.

One of them almost took me out of it on Merrion Road last year.

They had marshalls on bikes for the 10 mile and half in the Phoenix park - I think they were practice runs for DCM, so hopefully the problem of unofficial bike escorts will be less this year.

HardyEustace

aero2k wrote: »

One of them almost took me out of it on Merrion Road last year.

They had marshalls on bikes for the 10 mile and half in the Phoenix park - I think they were practice runs for DCM, so hopefully the problem of unofficial bike escorts will be less this year.

My personal take-you-off-the-bike-and-bludgeon-you moment would have to be the small hill where you go under a small underpass (St.Laurences Rd?) where a puffing woman in leggings several sizes too small (another image burned onto my retina for a few hours) who was struggling up the hill, over took me and then cut straight in front of me so I almost fell over her and her stupid bike.

Then she managed to find enough energy to be just slightly slower than me so I basically had to hop and shorten my stride, but just fast enough that I couldn't over take her without using up mucho energy or more importantly getting run down due to her lack of bike skill and control. Getting annoyed even thinking about it now. I'm fairly sure I wasn't the only one wishing evil things to happen to her, the least being that she fall off the bike and get the f*** off the course.