Donadea 50km

ultraman1

whilst bemoaning the lack of ultra distance races this side of the country,iv organised 1.....
This year it is invitational only,free,limited to 25 runners and its full already.Its on in donadea forest on 26th february,its 50km on a 5km forest trail,accurataly measured and timed and is IAU approved.there is a few from here doing it a a few helping out on the day with lap counting and marshalling etc.It will be an open race next year all things going well this year....
Anto...


(have squared this wit mods):D

menoscemo

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Thanks for putting this on and for the invite Anto.
Really looking forward to my first Ultra.

rainbow kirby

Fair play to ya for organising it, and hope all goes well on the day

jb-ski

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Well done UM on organising this.

It's a fantastic venue so i hope all goes well.

I believe there's lots of sneaky training runs going on in my part of the world;)

donothoponpop

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Fair play to UM for organizing and getting a label. Looking forward to it (by the way, there's a typo in your heading, should read 5k I thought, sub 20mins here we come!:D)

RacoonQueen

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I'll be making the sandwiches.

Also, 50km isn't a real ultra lads

Oisin11178

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RacoonQueen wrote: »

I'll be making the sandwiches.

Also, 50km isn't a real ultra lads

Ill help, i have special sauce:D

ultraman1

many thanks to jb-ski for organising SIS to provide some energy drinks

hot to trot

I've a scheduled 50k run for the following day , so I will be with ye in spirit.
Will pencil it in for next year.
Good luck and hope it all works out well.

jeffontour

Can I be the 1st to say feck ya ultraman for organising this, now I have to run it. I enjoyed my year off ultras last year!

Should be a bit of craic, and remember the quicker you run the sooner the pain stops. This is my new mantra.

ultraman1

RacoonQueen wrote: »

I'll be making the sandwiches.

wait till u see ur apron....

menoscemo

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RacoonQueen wrote: »

.
Also, 50km isn't a real ultra lads

Feckin elitists

TheRoadRunner

menoscemo wrote: »

Feckin elitists

sure it's only a marathon followed by ~8km cool down.

The Hammer

ultraman1 wrote: »

This year it is invitational only,free,limited to 25 runners and its full already.Its on in donadea forest on 26th february,
)

Invitational?? - how about a list of those invited for *the public record*? Any big names (and that doesn't count names spelled in Capitals)

ultraman1

The Hammer wrote: »

Invitational?? - how about a list of those invited for *the public record*? Any big names (and that doesn't count names spelled in Capitals)

I dont want to put anyones name up on a public forum without their consent......there is 2 from the irish international team competing in the 2011 ACP,there is one international marathon winner,8 sub 3 marathoners,maybe an irish record holder;),3 who came top 10 in art o'neill,and some of the victorious boards WW relay team....(dont think DCM could get a line up like dat:D)

jeffontour

ultraman1 wrote: »

there is 2 from the irish international team competing in the 2011 ACP,there is one international marathon winner,8 sub 3 marathoners,maybe an irish record holder;),3 who came top 10 in art o'neill,and some of the victorious boards WW relay team

Based on this post I can finally unveil that ultraman1 is in fact memory man Jimmy Magee. Only he could describe a field so eloquently and with such insight.

ultraman1

jeffontour wrote: »

Based on this post I can finally unveil that ultraman1 is in fact memory man Jimmy Magee. Only he could describe a field so eloquently and with such insight.

just hope i got them all right,.....especially as u are in there(i didnt want to say "and and few veterans":D:D

Krusty_Clown

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there is 2 from the irish international team competing in the 2011 ACP,there is one international marathon winner,8 sub 3 marathoners,maybe an irish record holder,3 who came top 10 in art o'neill,and some of the victorious boards WW relay team..

...and a clown...

donothoponpop

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Krusty_Clown wrote: »

...and a clown...

...followed by a fat man with a squeezy water bottle... eating homemade flapjacks...

jeffontour

donothoponpop wrote: »

homemade flapjacks

The only reason I'm turning up. ultramans invite to me guaranteed me limitless flapjacks. I hope he wasn't winding me up.

donothoponpop

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jeffontour wrote: »

The only reason I'm turning up. ultramans invite to me guaranteed me limitless flapjacks. I hope he wasn't winding me up.

Krusty makes his own, they're delicious. There'll be a table where he'll leave his stash for the race, see you there after the first 5k.

jeffontour

donothoponpop wrote: »

Krusty makes his own, they're delicious. There'll be a table where he'll leave his stash for the race, see you there after the first 5k.

Ok, so my pacing strategy is now determined by how hungry the rest of the field look prior to the start. And how good a lock the clown has on the cookie jar

ultraman1

another sneaki xtra for yis,bernadette from clane physical therapy centre(http://www.claneclinic.com) will be on hand after the race to massage any niggles or aches out of ye(disclaimer---she deals in pain)

Krusty_Clown

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donothoponpop wrote: »

Krusty makes his own, they're delicious. There'll be a table where he'll leave his stash for the race, see you there after the first 5k.

If I can carry my stash on my back over the mountains for 26 miles, I'm sure I can hold onto it for the duration of a trot around a pretty forest. :eek:

ultraman1

ultraman1 wrote: »

I dont want to put anyones name up on a public forum without their consent......there is 2 from the irish international team competing in the 2011 ACP,there is one international marathon winner,8 sub 3 marathoners,maybe an irish record holder;),3 who came top 10 in art o'neill,and some of the victorious boards WW relay team....(dont think DCM could get a line up like dat:D)

and the 2010 portumna 100km winner;)

Abhainn

ultraman1 wrote: »

another sneaki xtra for yis,bernadette from clane physical therapy centre(http://www.claneclinic.com) will be on hand after the race to massage any niggles or aches out of ye(disclaimer---she deals in pain)

.. she'll be working on me for a while then :rolleyes:

ultraman1

Abhainn wrote: »

.. she'll be working on me for a while then :rolleyes:

and dats after jo gets her hands on ya....

jaymack75

What time does the race start?

ultraman1

11 am sharp

jeffontour

ultraman1 wrote: »

11 am sharp

That's a very reasonable time of the day to be kicking things off. Well done to the race organisers, whoever they are!

Where are we parking? Scoopage after? Will there be medals for everyone?

I'm not going if I don't get a medal. Oh and I want a cert as well, to say I'm great.

ultraman1

jeffontour wrote: »

That's a very reasonable time of the day to be kicking things off. Well done to the race organisers, whoever they are!

Where are we parking? Scoopage after? Will there be medals for everyone?

I'm not going if I don't get a medal. Oh and I want a cert as well, to say I'm great.

parking at st kevins Gaa club which is also the scoopage area......no medals ,no cert and ur only ok,but u do get a number wit ur name....

Woundedknee.

Looking forward to this now. Se you all on Saturday.

GoHardOrGoHome

I had planned to do a 1h50 on Saturday and a 2h20 on Sunday just gone. Ended up doing one measly 62 minute run on Sunday. Disaster.

On the bright side I got a massage tonight and got some tight spots worked out. I'm good to go!

Krusty_Clown

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ultraman1 wrote: »

parking at st kevins Gaa club which is also the scoopage area......no medals ,no cert and ur only ok,but u do get a number wit ur name....

If I brought my own medal and certificate, could I get someone to hand them to me?
Looking forward to the run. What's the surface like out in Donadea? Is it soggy/mucky, stoney, or tarmacy?

ultraman1

Krusty_Clown wrote: »

What's the surface like out in Donadea? Is it soggy/mucky, stoney, or tarmacy?

is all of the above....

lecheile

ultraman1 wrote: »

is all of the above....

Dont mind him KC. It's all nice compacted paths upon while buggies call easily roll and runners majestically glide. That is unless UM1 has been out liberally watering the course!

donothoponpop

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lecheile wrote: »

Dont mind him KC. It's all nice compacted paths upon while buggies call easily roll and runners majestically glide. That is unless UM1 has been out liberally watering the course!

If we book a buggy seat, do we get to chose who pushes it? (bags Abhainn)

Weather is looking good, cool and bright.

rainbow kirby

lecheile wrote: »

That is unless UM1 has been out liberally watering the course!

Don't give him ideas :pac:

Woundedknee.

Regarding the weather. I'm told the race will go ahead even if the sun is shining.

ultraman1

Krusty_Clown wrote: »

What's the surface like out in Donadea? Is it soggy/mucky, stoney, or tarmacy?

just been around it this evening is actually all of the above so dont wear ur new runners,it

ultraman1

directions from clane.....coming from naas direction youll come into clane strauight through,turn left at esso petrol station,straight on for 2 and a bit miles to painestown petrol station,turn left at this crossroads heading for staplestown,straight through to the next crossroads,the park walls will be on ur right past a few big gafs,,keep goin through anudda crosroads and St kevins is on ur right anbout 400metres past the crossroads.....hope this helps....DP,dont get lost

RacoonQueen

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Anyone else not so confident to follow directions from ultraman?!

donothoponpop

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ultraman1 wrote: »

directions from clane.....DP,dont get lost

Bang goes my "Sorry I'm lost" phone call I was going to make at noon, from my bed. I'm fast running out of excuses here, hell, if Krusty posts his recipe for flapjacks, I'll be all out, and may have to run this thing...

Enduro

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Good luck everyone. Hope it's a great day's running for all.

jeffontour

donothoponpop wrote: »

Bang goes my "Sorry I'm lost" phone call I was going to make at noon, from my bed.

Bugger, I was going to use that one!

I'm actually looking forward to this now, should be a nice indicator of how my training is going. I haven't gotten enough longer runs in so far this year but my mileage and conisistency of running is miles ahead of any other time.

At the worst there should be a nice bit of banter and craic running round in circles. It's great to have a chance to try a looped course with other runners without having to shell out cash. I suppose I have ambitions towards 24 hour racing at some stage and this is a great way to test the format of repeated loops.

Big respect has to go out to ultraman1 for organising but he owes me one for taping his toes in Connemara a few years back!

RayCun

Good luck to everyone running this

RacoonQueen

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Well done to all out in Donadea today. All runners did really well. Cracking win aswell. :eek:

The volunteers were amazing too. :pac:

donothoponpop

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Ultraman really is DA MAN. Great race, the organization was superb. What started as soft forest trail felt harder and stonier as the laps went on. Loads of assistants, fair play to their amazingness, but Anto really delivered in spades today.

menoscemo

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Great race and fair play to Anto and the volunteers.

4:21 for me, much better than expected though I think I may pay for that in Barcelona next weekend.

ultraman1

1..keith whyte....3:26:27
2.joe cawely......3:29:03
3..john oregan....3:41:32
jim mcCormic...3:41:32
5..peter mooney..3:44:49
6..rory mooney...3:46:49
7..tony brennan...3:52:29
gary condon....3:52:29
9..pat quill..........3:55:57
10..justin mckeever..3:58:28
11..jeff fitzsimmons...3:58:52
12..niall campbell....4:21:22
...eammonn hodge.4:21:22
14..chriastian nachital..4:26:00
15..tom enright..4:41:45
16....jonh brady....4:48:18
17...eammonn dargan..4:53:30
18...finn o meara...4:54:25......first female

Oisin11178

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ultraman1 wrote: »

1..keith whyte....3:26:27
2.joe cawely......3:29:03
3..john oregan....3:41:32
jim mcCormic...3:41:32
5..peter mooney..3:44:49
6..rory mooney...3:46:49
7..tony brennan...3:52:29
gary condon....3:52:29
9..pat quill..........3:55:57
10..justin mckeever..3:58:28
11..jeff fitzsimmons...3:58:52
12..niall campbell....4:21:22
...eammonn hodge.4:21:22
14..chriastian nachital..4:26:00
15..tom enright..4:41:45
16....jonh brady....4:48:18
17...eammonn dargan..4:53:30
18...finn o meara...4:54:25......first female

Amazing quality in todays race, top 2 under 3.30 and top 11 under 4 hours. ell done everyone.