Clones 10k for 1k

cloneslad

The 1st annual 'Clones 10k for 1k' run takes place on October 1st at 3pm.

I am not really involved in the organisation of this (though I did map out the route for the organisers by running around their designated route and uploading it on mapmyrun). I'm just helping to promote it on here because I'd like to see it make the festival some money to help pay for the other events they've lined up.

The 10k run is just one of the many activities to be held over the weekend. There will be chip timing, showers, after party, drinks etc for all participants. It would be great if runners were able to hang around for the weekend and also attend the festival.

For more information go to www.clonescanalfestival.com and click on the link for the road race. Registration is done through runireland, the link can be found on the website.

heffsarmy

Is the course fast?

GoHardOrGoHome

1000 is a great prize fund. Any idea of the breakdown? (not that I'm in with a chance!)

cloneslad

heffsarmy wrote: »

Is the course fast?

It's rolling hills, small hills, and flat for quite a bit of it too.

I'd say 6-7km are flat (or slight, unnoticeable downhill).

I run various parts of the route when I go running and it's a nice run, the only bit I don't usually run is the first 1.5km. The start brings you on to a small inclining hill, then back down a hill the far side.

from 2k-4k has a bit of up and down but nothing your legs would notice.

4k-6k is pretty much flat.

6-8k has some hills, again, nothing noticeable, and wouldn't even be considered hilly by most.

8k-10k is all flat bar one uphill and then fermanagh street.

The worst part is running up fermanagh street at the end.

If you know clones, then you'll be happy to know that none of the course is as steep as fermanagh street, so that tells you how easy it is.

I ran the course to map it on monday last week, in the pissing rain, with a sore ankle and I only took it easy going around it and I did it in 49minutes, getting under 45 mins would be really easy for a 22 minute 5k runner. I will definitely be looking to get under the 45 minute mark, if my ankle heals up.

cloneslad

GoHardOrGoHome wrote: »

1000 is a great prize fund. Any idea of the breakdown? (not that I'm in with a chance!)

Im not sure if it's all going to 1st 2nd and 3rd in senior men and women, with various prizes for over 40 age categories. It hadn't been decided when I was chatting to the guy organising it.


There will be no junior category as they were told you had to be over 18 to enter the race.


I hope there's a good crowd at it, when I did the 5k in Monaghan a few weeks ago there was 115, I'd like to think the prize money and chip timing would attract more than that. Plus it'll be great for the town to have an annual race ( though I'd change the course up a bit at the start if I was designing the route)

cloneslad

I was on the website earlier and I noticed they don't have the course map in the course section of the site.

http://www.mapmyrun.com/routes/view/49321618

You can view it here.

Hoping my ankle is going to be okay to run it. I've not been able to do anything on it for over 2 weeks now, going to try a gentle run tomorrow and see how it's holding up.

I'm not putting myself out injured for a long time just to run it, I'll just let my registration fee be a donation rather than risk long term injury.

bartdonnelly

€20 is too much for this type of race. The Monaghan 5k with some good runners was only €10. too many small, festival type races are taking place and charging way too much to enter. €10 would be plenty for a race like this.

cloneslad

bartdonnelly wrote: »

€20 is too much for this type of race. The Monaghan 5k with some good runners was only €10. too many small, festival type races are taking place and charging way too much to enter. €10 would be plenty for a race like this.

The monaghan 5k was a good race but it didn't have

€1000 price fund
chip timing
medals for the finishers.

The monaghan 5k had sandwiches and some prizes, that was about the height of their expenses. You have to take each race at what they offer, and this race if offering a lot more than the clones 5k and monaghan 5k that were held last month.

I paid €40 for the warriors run in Sligo last month, it was worth the price because it's a very popular race (the 800 spots sold out in less than 6 hours), it had chip timing, t-shirts, sandwiches, tea, provided free entry into the marquee entertainment and is a well run race.

If the race is successful, I'd ask the organisers to provide free entry to one of the night time events in the pubs / hotels around town for those who are running

I've also paid over €150 to do tough guy in the UK, and less than €20 to do half marathons and 30k races in Korea. I think you need to take each race at its own merit.

By the way, online registration has now closed for this race. You can register on friday and saturday at FJD surveyors (think that's what it's called - it's across from the paragon bar). It will cost €30 to register on the day (I asked one of the organisers to leave it at €20, but they wanted people to register online so they'd have an idea of costs of medals, pasta, water etc etc).

I'm also out of this race, ankle hasn't recovered so I'll be doing something, somewehre to help out at the race.

devotional1993

cloneslad wrote: »

The monaghan 5k was a good race but it didn't have

€1000 price fund
chip timing
medals for the finishers.

The monaghan 5k had sandwiches and some prizes, that was about the height of their expenses. You have to take each race at what they offer, and this race if offering a lot more than the clones 5k and monaghan 5k that were held last month.

I paid €40 for the warriors run in Sligo last month, it was worth the price because it's a very popular race (the 800 spots sold out in less than 6 hours), it had chip timing, t-shirts, sandwiches, tea, provided free entry into the marquee entertainment and is a well run race.

If the race is successful, I'd ask the organisers to provide free entry to one of the night time events in the pubs / hotels around town for those who are running

I've also paid over €150 to do tough guy in the UK, and less than €20 to do half marathons and 30k races in Korea. I think you need to take each race at its own merit.

By the way, online registration has now closed for this race. You can register on friday and saturday at FJD surveyors (think that's what it's called - it's across from the paragon bar). It will cost €30 to register on the day (I asked one of the organisers to leave it at €20, but they wanted people to register online so they'd have an idea of costs of medals, pasta, water etc etc).

I'm also out of this race, ankle hasn't recovered so I'll be doing something, somewehre to help out at the race.

30e to race on the day is a bloody disgrace. Only a complete idiot would pay that. the CELTIC TIGER days are over ! Ive raced aprox 300 races in 10years all over the country. Drop your price gain extra numbers and be realistic. keep it as a race,not a big pasta party pretending to cost money.After all its a short race not a marathon.

bartdonnelly

30euro is a disgrace on race day regardless of the Chip Timing etc. The Blackwater 10k has Chip Timing, Prizes etc and is 15e if I remember rightly.
This Clones race is mostly a fun run - it's not a credible 10k - we don't even know if it's accurate. Charging 20e is a joke and 30e on the day is mad.
The difference with the Monaghan 5k is that it is a real runners race which the local talent look forward to running on a fast course.
Have a look and you will see that real races charge realistic prices and the 'trendy races' for the fun runners overcharge grossly.
I'll not be running it, I'm going to the County Chamionships on Sunday instead.

Domer

Cloneslad

If you want to come on here and promote your own race, please do, but DO NOT put down other races in the locality. This is unprofessional and goes against everything that this forum stands for. I am heavily involved in both the Monaghan 5k and the Blackwater 10k and I disagree with some of the comments thus far.

The Monaghan 5k is held as a fund raiser for Monaghan Phoenix Athletic Club and as such we do our best to keep costs down, while deliverying a top quality event. The prize fund for this race was over €700 euro and we award prizes in all catagories including 1st and 2nd in Junior and in 5 vets catagories for both male and female. We also had significant expenses like renting the Timing clock, paying for the "few sandwiches", tea, etc. We also had to pay for the hall, contribute to local organisations who helped with the event, not to mention numbers, pins, advertising, printing, PA, etc. We managed to do all this charging €10 entry fee and still made a small profit that goes directly to supporting athletics in the area. I cannot find anywhere what catagory prizes this event will be offering.

The Blackwater 10k is run annually as a charity event, and as such all proceeds go to local charities (nothing goes to the Athletics Clubs, but Monaghan Phoenix and Glaslough are still heavily involved in its organistion). This event has over 1000 participants each year, and is a great event for the whole community. We have significant overheads over and above what the 5k would have, but we still make a profit which goes to the local charities.


If you wish to promote your own event, please do, but I would suggest that the moderator take a stern view of your attempt to claim that your event is better then another, thus justifying your chosen entry fee. I dont know if you are involved in organising the race, but you are not helping promote it to local clubs by taking the approach you have chosen.

cloneslad

Domer wrote: »

Cloneslad

If you want to come on here and promote your own race, please do, but DO NOT put down other races in the locality. This is unprofessional and goes against everything that this forum stands for. I am heavily involved in both the Monaghan 5k and the Blackwater 10k and I disagree with some of the comments thus far.

The Monaghan 5k is held as a fund raiser for Monaghan Phoenix Athletic Club and as such we do our best to keep costs down, while deliverying a top quality event. The prize fund for this race was over €700 euro and we award prizes in all catagories including 1st and 2nd in Junior and in 5 vets catagories for both male and female. We also had significant expenses like renting the Timing clock, paying for the "few sandwiches", tea, etc. We also had to pay for the hall, contribute to local organisations who helped with the event, not to mention numbers, pins, advertising, printing, PA, etc. We managed to do all this charging €10 entry fee and still made a small profit that goes directly to supporting athletics in the area. I cannot find anywhere what catagory prizes this event will be offering.

The Blackwater 10k is run annually as a charity event, and as such all proceeds go to local charities (nothing goes to the Athletics Clubs, but Monaghan Phoenix and Glaslough are still heavily involved in its organistion). This event has over 1000 participants each year, and is a great event for the whole community. We have significant overheads over and above what the 5k would have, but we still make a profit which goes to the local charities.


If you wish to promote your own event, please do, but I would suggest that the moderator take a stern view of your attempt to claim that your event is better then another, thus justifying your chosen entry fee. I dont know if you are involved in organising the race, but you are not helping promote it to local clubs by taking the approach you have chosen.

It's not my own race, as I said before, I have nothing to do with it. I am not in charge of the price, what is being offered, the course, the people running it or anything like that.


I also did not put down the monaghan 5k (i mentioned it along side the clones 5k), I ran that race and I enjoyed it. If you look at my post I said they had no real expenses with the exception of a sandwiches and some prizes.I didn't say a 'few sandwiches' as you quoted and I find it quite offensive that you think I would put down someone elses race.

I also didn't try and say this race would be better run than the others, as I know it won't be, I said their expenses were bigger than the other races as they were offering more than the other races in terms of prize money, chip timing and medals.

Trust me, I wouldn't put down any other race, I love running and the only reason I've put this event up here is because I want more events to be run in the Monaghan area.

here is my entry to the blackwater thread from a few months ago.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=72130430&postcount=4

The people organising this race have never organised one before, if you would like to come and help out on the day it would be greatly appreciated, because I think it's only starting to hit home for them just what is involved on race day to ensure a smooth operation and they could do with the help of people with experience.

30euro is a disgrace on race day regardless of the Chip Timing etc. The Blackwater 10k has Chip Timing, Prizes etc and is 15e if I remember rightly.
This Clones race is mostly a fun run - it's not a credible 10k - we don't even know if it's accurate. Charging 20e is a joke and 30e on the day is mad.
The difference with the Monaghan 5k is that it is a real runners race which the local talent look forward to running on a fast course.
Have a look and you will see that real races charge realistic prices and the 'trendy races' for the fun runners overcharge grossly.
I'll not be running it, I'm going to the County Chamionships on Sunday instead.

*****As for the €30 charge on the day, as I said before, I thought this was too much for the event and I told the main organiser about my thoughts on it a few weeks ago when I mapped out the run but he seemed insistent on it.

Anyway, I was chatting to him earlier and he told me they had a problem with the chip timing, I'm sure a lot of you know, a young man in the town died during the week, the funeral was today. well the run was actually going to be cancelled, as was the festival, but it was decided that it will now go ahead. I think chip timing has had to suffer because of this as most of the organisers spent from last Thursday until this wednesday down at the cliffs of Moher helping out with the family of the deceased, and everything (festival wise) was put on the back burner.

SO I think there will be no chip timing, but I also think that on the day registration will only be €20 now.


As for the bit in bold, if you check out the website, you will see that the race is AAI approved and has been officially measured.

cloneslad

devotional1993 wrote: »

30e to race on the day is a bloody disgrace. Only a complete idiot would pay that. the CELTIC TIGER days are over ! Ive raced aprox 300 races in 10years all over the country. Drop your price gain extra numbers and be realistic. keep it as a race,not a big pasta party pretending to cost money.After all its a short race not a marathon.

don't give out to me about it. I'm sure they have an e-mail you can contact them and let them know. I'm just on here trying to get extra numbers to come to the town and let you guys know that there is a race on.

As said above though, I think (I hope) they don't carry through with the €30 charge. Some races can charge as much as they want, but they've earned that right as they've consistently held great races, This race should not be charging €30, as a runner, if I had no ties to the town, I know I wouldn't pay for it.


EDIT: It's definitely €20 to register tomorrow. Apparently it's €25 tomoorow, according to a facebook update I just read. So far it's not a big field, so if you a decent runner, this might be your chance to win a prize (or come in the top 10). Unfortunately I'm a lazy runner and I win nothing, tomorrow would be no exception. (except a pair of socks I won one time at a 10k in Sligo and that was only cos my number was pulled out of a raffle)

cloneslad

We had a great response from everyone who ran the race. There was over 60 entrants (online and on the day) with some of those who registered online not making it on the day. The race day Charity was Cavan Cystic Fibrosis. Photos can be found here and here

I was delighted to see a local winner winning the men's race, and the winner of the ladies race also ran the Clones 5k back in August.

The winners of the over 40's categories both ran great times as well and we had quite a few 10k PB's on the day, including a 30second PB for 3rd place male Raymond Johnston.

Congratulations to the winners in each category and to everyone for taking part.

1st male - Rory Maguire - 34.54
2nd male - Philip smith - 36.58 (also 1st over 40)
3rd male - Raymond Johnston - 37.12

1st female - Freda Comiskey - 44.24
2nd female - Emer Smith - 44.54
3rd female lorraine McLoughlan - 45.13

1st Male over 40 - Philip Smith - 36.58
1st Female over 40 - Nuala Reilly 45.52

For those wondering, the prizes were broken down as follow:

1st male / female - €250 each
2nd male / female - €150 each
3rd male / female - €50 each

1st male / female (over 40) - €50 each

I have attached a full set of race results and I will send them to the guys over the website so they can be viewed there too.


***I ended up being a lot more involved in the organisation on the day as I thought I would, due to the lack of chip timing. I asked around for feedback from some of the runners yesterday. I got some great advice.

If I get to help out next year from an earlier point, I will recommend dropping the chip timing, reducing the price and the prizes and attract more fun runners to make it a bigger and more enjoyable event. If possible, adding in a 6k walk (this length because it would take you along some of the running route and would be easier to steward on the day). Obviously more advertising material around the county would be a help too.

Any further feedback from those who ran the race, were there on the day, or decided against running it would be greatly appreciated.