Warriors Run 27/8/2011

Mint Sauce

Last years thread including poll result of 4.76
Race website


The Warriors Run is a 15km Multi Terrain taking place in Strandhill, Sligo, on Saturday 27th August.

Now I thought registration was opening today at midday (homepage indicates registration open), but registration page still shows about another hour till opening.

Anyhow, good luck to all entering. Places are limited to 800.

warriorsfestival.com

MoonDancer

Looks like the server/website is having problems. The page isn't loading for me.

Mint Sauce

It does appear to be, took a while, but completed mine. Got the paypal receipt anyway.

MoonDancer

A friend of mine didn't get taken back to a page to collect her bib number after registering. When I go to the website it brings me to a blank page saying "403 forbidden" haha

cloneslad

yeah, previous year's winner always gets allocated bib number 403, so you can't have it

I'm waiting until I register my 3rd and final entrant, then I'll send them off an e-mail looking for my bib numbers because I also didn't get taken back.

dna_leri

4 stars (good)

cloneslad wrote: »

yeah, previous year's winner always gets allocated bib number 403, so you can't have it

I'm waiting until I register my 3rd and final entrant, then I'll send them off an e-mail looking for my bib numbers because I also didn't get taken back.

does that mean half of the places are gone already?:eek:

i know.

cloneslad

dna_leri wrote: »

does that mean half of the places are gone already?:eek:

i know.

that's two of us getting our coats then

GeraldineN

Website crashed, have to try tomorrow

MoonDancer

Oh my goodness!! haha The same will just happen tomorrow! Why don't they have the race in different waves. That way lots more people can run.

rovers_runner

MoonDancer wrote: »

Oh my goodness!! haha The same will just happen tomorrow! Why don't they have the race in different waves. That way lots more people can run.

If only MoonDancer, if they split it into people under 85 mins / people over 85 mins for instance they could have got an extra 400 entries easily.

Plus they wouldn't have had to increase the entry fee by €10....:rolleyes:

cloneslad

MoonDancer wrote: »

Oh my goodness!! haha The same will just happen tomorrow! Why don't they have the race in different waves. That way lots more people can run.

I still don't understand why it's still being held at 3pm, if they want to allow people some time to travel down to it then why not hold it at 1pm?

Anyway, I guess I can't complain too much, it's a very successful race and others would love their site to crash due to the number of people trying to register.

€40 is a bit steep for a 15k race and a cotton t-shirt though. I was able to apply for marathons, 30kms, halfs marathons etc for less than that in Korea, get a proper running t-shirt, a windbreaker jacket, or a pair of runners. As well as getting a cert posted to me a few weeks after the race with my official time and my picture on it (though the first one they sent me had some random korean man on it :rolleyes:)

Hail 2 Da Chimp

cloneslad wrote: »

€40 is a bit steep for a 15k race and a cotton t-shirt though. I was able to apply for marathons, 30kms, halfs marathons etc for less than that in Korea, get a proper running t-shirt, a windbreaker jacket, or a pair of runners. As well as getting a cert posted to me a few weeks after the race with my official time and my picture on it (though the first one they sent me had some random korean man on it :rolleyes:)

It's not really fair to be comparing Irish prices to Korean prices but €40 is crazy money for what you're getting in the Warriors.

A cotton t-shirt and a ham sandwich is hardly something to write home about, lets not forget the majority of people working there are volunteers - so that's not consuming the budget.

/rant

MoonDancer

Hail 2 Da Chimp wrote: »

It's not really fair to be comparing Irish prices to Korean prices but €40 is crazy money for what you're getting in the Warriors.

A cotton t-shirt and a ham sandwich is hardly something to write home about, lets not forget the majority of people working there are volunteers - so that's not consuming the budget.

/rant

Exactly! I was talking to one of the committee members, and apparantly there aren't enough volunteers or time to organise a race with different waves. Surely someone must be making a lot of profit out of it.
It's just getting greedy now, they see the demand has grown but they just up the price cos they know people will pay it.

cloneslad

Hail 2 Da Chimp wrote: »

It's not really fair to be comparing Irish prices to Korean prices but €40 is crazy money for what you're getting in the Warriors.

why not? the cost of living is not much cheaper in Korea than it is in Ireland. I mean buying any running shoes, gels, shorts etc, hell even normal things like electronics, meat, fruit etc is actually more expensive than it is back home.

The average wage for most of the people in the area where I lived was €4,000-€5,000 a month. The 30k run I did in the local area cost me about €13 including goody bag, medal, snacks afterwards, with water - pepsi-glucose drink-bananas-jelly beans throughout the racea choice of windbreaker or shoes as a gift and then the cert with your pic on it a few weeks later.

Even the seoul dongA international marathon, which is massive event offering $80,000 for first place , $40,000 for second and so on (both male and female), gets tens of thousand of entrants, each of whom get a technical running shirt, medal, goody bag etc etc and it's only $40 to enter. They have to close down seoul city centre for this race, yet it is cheaper than the warriors run, and more importantly it's is 2-3 times cheaper than what could be considered equal to it, the Dublin marathon.

dna_leri

4 stars (good)

GeraldineN wrote: »

Website crashed, have to try tomorrow

Anyone know when tomorrow will come?

woody1

3 stars (average)

just got registered there, no major drama,
had to wait 14 minutes for the page to refresh , and then all went fine, which is good cos until i saw this page yesterday i had completely forgotten about it..
as of 5 minutes ago there were 270 odd registered so there are a good few places left..
maybe a wave start would be a good way to go next year if the interest keeps up

GeraldineN

Don't know what's wrong with my machine - I'm still getting the same message?! suppose I'll just keep trying!

woody1

3 stars (average)

yeah i opened it a couple of times and got the come back tomorrow message or i got a blank page
but when i tried going straight to the registration page i got in with a countdown on the page


try this
http://www.warriorsfestival.com/register-online

GeraldineN

Thanks for the link - tried it and was brought onto the website, but it's now told me that I will be re-directed back to the site in 35 mins! Suppose I'd better do some good training now after all this wait!!

petermijackson

GeraldineN wrote: »

Thanks for the link - tried it and was brought onto the website, but it's now told me that I will be re-directed back to the site in 35 mins! Suppose I'd better do some good training now after all this wait!!

48minute wait for me - they should have let Run Ireland or a website that was able to take the capacity to deal with registration

GeraldineN

Well I'm finally registered! Now all I have to do is the training!!

dna_leri

4 stars (good)

Got in too after 34 min wait. Had 333 runners registered before I got there. So if you are waiting hang in there.

MoonDancer

Registered myself might see you again on the Mountain Gerladine!

GeraldineN

For sure!

Mint Sauce

Just noticed the website is back down again, over 300 registered as per the facebook page.

MoonDancer

Registering a friend now & finished the queue of almost an hour & page is closed, gonna have to queue again
FIRE the I.T guys!!

DULLAHAN2

4 stars (good)

It's abit of a joke trying to register for this race.

DULLAHAN2

4 stars (good)

Just regestired for this what a nightmare!!!

T runner

In fairness, they werent expecting this traffic. 511 registered now. The Ballycotton of the North west it seems

DULLAHAN2

4 stars (good)

T runner wrote: »

In fairness, they werent expecting this traffic. 511 registered now. The Ballycotton of the North west it seems

Yeah think you may be right. i was very frustrated earlier on. 638 now registered. It will be sold out by tomorrow i would say

nerraw1111

Only about 150 places left.

About 130 places went in the last hour

Slogger Jogger

4 stars (good)

Registered. 680 places gone. Set Club as Boards too if anyone else is interested.

DULLAHAN2

4 stars (good)

Slogger Jogger wrote: »

Registered. 680 places gone. Set Club as Boards too if anyone else is interested.

Damn never taught of that when i entered. 712 places gone

Slogger Jogger

4 stars (good)

DULLAHAN2 wrote: »

Damn never taught of that when i entered. 712 places left.

If you popped them an email they might oblige you.

DULLAHAN2

4 stars (good)

Slogger Jogger wrote: »

If you popped them an email they might oblige you.

Yeah will do. I will wait until i get BIB number and see if they will. Only 52 places left it will be sold out tonight

Mint Sauce

17 places left. Did anyone ever expect it to fill this quick?

DULLAHAN2

4 stars (good)

SOLD OUT!!!!! I wouldnt say it was open for 12 hours alltogether.

RacoonQueen

Fudge sake. Why didn't I open this thread earlier. :rolleyes:

MoonDancer

DULLAHAN2 wrote: »

SOLD OUT!!!!! I wouldnt say it was open for 12 hours alltogether.

Not even close! They opened for 20 mins yesterday before the site went down & almost 200 registered in that time, today they more or less opened again at about 5:45 as they had lots of problems earlier & it's sold out now just after 9.
That is mental!!

Mint Sauce

DULLAHAN2 wrote: »

SOLD OUT!!!!! I wouldnt say it was open for 12 hours alltogether.

Was open for about an hour or two yesterday, and from 2pm today, if that due to all the crashes. Stand bys or transfers are the only way in now.

cloneslad

Ebay tomorrow

FOR SALE: Place in warriors run, sligo 2011, price €500.

Mint Sauce

cloneslad wrote: »

Ebay tomorrow

FOR SALE: Place in warriors run, sligo 2011, price €500.

I'll take 250 for mine.

acummins

cant understand the demand increase in this from last year to this year. it took months before the 800 was filled last year. web design very poor!!

ThisRegard

This was on the back of my mind basically forgotten about until I got a reminder from someone about it. Was hmmming and hawwwing about it and there was near enough 300 places left. Decided to register and it had plummeted to only 70 or so at that stage. Completed payment and redirected to the homepage and in that space of time it had dropped to 11 !

Quickest registering I've ben involved in bar concert tickets.

Peterx

acummins wrote: »

cant understand the demand increase in this from last year to this year. it took months before the 800 was filled last year. web design very poor!!

ahh yes but no one will be racing the web:) it's a great route, in a great location and the festival fun is mighty.

I am going to beat that upstart T runner into the dust beneath my asics.;)

cloneslad

Peterx wrote: »

ahh yes but no one will be racing the web:) it's a great route, in a great location and the festival fun is mighty.

I want to thank this part

Peterx wrote: »

I am going to beat that upstart T runner into the dust beneath my asics.;)

I want to see this part, alas I'll be home about 25 minutes after you so I'll have to get eye witness accounts from those watching it

Slogger Jogger

4 stars (good)

Peterx wrote: »

I am going to beat that upstart T runner into the dust beneath my asics.;)

Thems fighting words Looking forward to seeing that tussle.

T runner

acummins wrote: »

cant understand the demand increase in this from last year to this year. it took months before the 800 was filled last year. web design very poor!!

Dont underestand the correlation between web design poorness and how fast reg fills this year or last. The demand is more than last year for sure. But last year the last 400 places sold in only a few days: when people realised there would be a rush.

There was no illusions this year and with half of Dublin and all of Sligo determined not to be left out the rush happenned immediately.

The website design is mediocre. The content needs to be improved by lots. They need a server or for it to be professionally hosted to handle the traffic.

Peterx wrote: »

ahh yes but no one will be racing the web:) it's a great route, in a great location and the festival fun is mighty.

I am going to beat that upstart T runner into the dust beneath my asics.;)

Youll need grips on those asics this year! Should be good crack.

broders3

That website is a pile of xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx! Ran up there for the last 2 years and everytime I went to the site since May 9th it has been down. Now I cant even get my name on the standby list. Ridiculous. You would think for €40 they would have put some kind of a proper server up.

cloneslad

Although the website crashing was annoying, you must remember that this is a small local race of only 800 competitors, they don't have the resources both financially and physically to run a 100% efficient operation online, they do organise a great race without any hitches, give them a few years to get it right and I'm sure they will have all the small problems sorted out to prevent anything like this happening again, in fact, I'm sure they'll have learned their lesson for next year.

The reserve list hasn't opened yet, keep an eye on the facebook page LINK as they are keeping everyone informed there. They have updated recently to say that they hope to have the reserve list registration open at 12:30pm

broders3

Hey Cloneslad.

I do admit it is a small local operation. The only reason I’m so annoyed is that I really want to run it. I pretty much base my years training around the last Saturday in August! I do a lot of hill running in Dublin during the summer to get ready. Hopefully I can get something on the standby list. Not trying to have a go at the owners, my disappointment is because it is such a great race. 800 people obviously feel the same way