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Long run Dublin Mountains

  • 28-01-2011 02:51PM
    #1
    loghlin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9 ✭


    Hi, Im looking to do a 15 miler on Sunday in the Dublin Mountains. I have no idea of the trails or the best place to park the car. I have never ran up there before but I wanna start.
    So I'm looking for a bit of advice on trails, training groups (on a Sunday) and directions.
    I'll be doing about 6.30 miles for 15 if anyone cares to join me.
    Cheers


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  • #2
    Cool Running
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 451 ✭✭Cool Running


    Have a look at this route from the Dublin Mountain Plod last July

    Cracking 13 miler which is slightly less than your looking for but you could just add on a small bit

    Starts and finshes in Marley Park so you can park there and hit for hills

    http://www.imra.ie/events/view/tab/maps/id/804/


  • #3
    loghlin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9 ✭loghlin


    Cheers. Is it easy enough to follow or is there a danger of geeting lost?


  • #4
    ocnoc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 830 ✭✭✭ocnoc


    loghlin wrote: »
    I'll be doing about 6.30 miles for 15 if anyone cares to join me.
    Cheers

    Just a quick word of warning... 6:30miles on the flat does not equal 6:30 miles in the mountains


  • #5
    loghlin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9 ✭loghlin


    Ok...I'll be going at the same effort level of doing 6.30 miles on the flat.


  • #6
    Cool Running
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 451 ✭✭Cool Running


    loghlin wrote: »
    Cheers. Is it easy enough to follow or is there a danger of geeting lost?

    Ya it's handy enough to follow. I think but not sure that there is Dublin Mountain Way markers once ya hit the mountain.

    Best thing is print the map and bring it with ya in case ya go off course

    This thread actually has a lot of useful info on the route

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=65873974


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  • #7
    Antigrav
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 119 ✭✭Antigrav


    There used to be a few doing this as their Sunday plod - hence the name of the IMRA race. PeterX was one, but it may be off season for them.

    If you are doing this route, watch out for traffic on Tibradden Lane near the start as there are a couple of blind corners. The only other slightly tricky place for navigation is Massey's wood, but as long as you keep going up hill and keep left (along fence line) you should be OK.

    After Massey's it's all Dublin Mountain Way and Wicklow Way, so should be easy enough to follow.

    Good trails all along this route although could be mucky in Masseys. Road runners will do.

    Enjoy :D


  • #8
    Krusty_Clown
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,504 ✭✭✭✭Krusty_Clown


    The Dublin Mountain Way is a great long run too, but there's no way you could sustain 6:30/miles, as once you get into the hills the terrain can be very boggy. It's 26.4 miles long (which has a nice ring to it!). Here's my google map. Lots more info from the Dublin Mountain Partnership here.


  • #9
    climbhigh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 115 ✭✭climbhigh


    The Wicklow Way has plenty of runnable trails for someone new to the hills and junctions on the the route are marked with yellow figures on wooden posts. A good first run would be from Glendalough towards Glenmalure and back (turn around before you start to descend into Glenmalure valley). See http://www.wicklowway.com/trail-maps/glendalough-glenmalure.php for more information.

    Come along to watch an IMRA race to make contacts and get advice.


  • #10
    ocnoc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 830 ✭✭✭ocnoc


    climbhigh wrote: »
    Come along to watch an IMRA race to make contacts and get advice.

    I'm sure what climbhigh meant to say was "come along and run an IMRA race to make contacts and get advice" ;)


  • #11
    onimpulse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 350 ✭✭onimpulse


    Just found this tread now - thinking I'd like to do a few trail runs myself... just for a change of scenery. This might be a stupid question - but are the trails mentioned safe for a girl on her own?


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  • #12
    Micilin Muc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,842 ✭✭✭Micilin Muc


    onimpulse wrote: »
    Just found this tread now - thinking I'd like to do a few trail runs myself... just for a change of scenery. This might be a stupid question - but are the trails mentioned safe for a girl on her own?

    I reckon they're all safe, unless running in the middle of the night!


  • #13
    brownian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,741 ✭✭✭brownian


    onimpulse wrote: »
    Just found this tread now - thinking I'd like to do a few trail runs myself... just for a change of scenery. This might be a stupid question - but are the trails mentioned safe for a girl on her own?

    There's less bottle-throwing skangers, idiots with cars and so forth on the trails. Certainly if you were planning to molest someone, you coudl be a long cold time waiting in the hills; I'd guess parks and dark streets are way dodgier.

    When you see some of gear I wear when trail running - if anyone was going to get attacked it'd have happened to me:D

    All joking aside, there's also reasonable traffic (levels of walkers etc) on the DMW and the WW close to Dublin, at least at the weekend. This is good from a broken-ankle no phone perspective, as well as giving a sense of security.


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