Marathons in May, June or July

farrelli

Hi, myself and a friend are hoping to run a marathon next year. He would preferably like to run around the May, June or July mark so I was wondering what marathons in Ireland take place around this time, I know the Cork one is around June but would be interested to know what else is on the table? Had a look on runireland.com but their calendar isn't showing anything for 2012 yet. Thanks for your help, farrelli.

plumber77

http://www.greatlimerickrun.com/

3rd year of this and seems to be getting bigger.

Oisin11178

May 1 Limerick www.greatlimerickrun.com
May 2 Belfast www.belfastcitymarathon.com
May 15 Kildare www.kildaremarathon.ie/full_marathon.html
May 21 Burren www.clareburrenmarathonchallenge.com
May 29 Newry www.newrycitymarathon.com
June 4,5 & 6 Kilkenny 3 Marathons in 3 days www.susielonghospice.com/runkilkenny.html
June 6 Cork www.corkcitymarathon.ie
June 11 Mourne Way www.mournewaymarathon.com/
June 18 Portumna www.runireland.com/events/2010-06-26/portumna-100km-and-u-marathon
June 25 West of Ireland Marathon Series
July 6,7,8,9 & 10 Sixmilebridge 5 Marathons in 5 days www.runireland.com/events/5-marathons-5-days-race-5
July 22 Belfast 24 Hr http://www.runireland.com/events/energia-belfast-24-hour-race
July 23 Bogtrotters www.thebogtrottersmarathon.ie
July 24 West of Ireland Marathon Series
They are the dates from this year, the dates for 2012 will be slightly different by maybe a day or 2. You get the drift though:D

deisecelt

Hi, I was just wondering if.there is any full marathons inIreland next summer. I wanna my first full one a shot but it has to be before 16 August. I heard cork is next.to impossible.

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deisecelt wrote: »

Hi, I was just wondering if.there is any full marathons inIreland next summer. I wanna my first full one a shot but it has to be before 16 August. I heard cork is next.to impossible.

Cork is in june. I ran this in 2009 its a typical irish marathon NOT FLAT but nowhere near impossible. If ur looking for a flat marathon do rotterdam in April. There are very few non track races in Ireland that are completely flat im afraid.

paky

the belfast one is in may. very doable, not many hills except for an incline along the antrim road but thats about it

Mr Slow

deisecelt wrote: »

Hi, I was just wondering if.there is any full marathons inIreland next summer. I wanna my first full one a shot but it has to be before 16 August. I heard cork is next.to impossible.

At the risk of sounding smart and that's not my intention, put in the training and you won't have to worry about the course.

menoscemo

deisecelt wrote: »

Hi, I was just wondering if.there is any full marathons inIreland next summer. I wanna my first full one a shot but it has to be before 16 August. I heard cork is next.to impossible.

Cork is one of the easier marathons in Ireland.

ger664

paky wrote: »

the belfast one is in may. very doable, not many hills except for an incline along the antrim road but thats about it

That incline starts @ 7 on the falls raod all the way to the zoo @ 14. Its is nearly 300ft of a drag. Probably just a bump for some of the mountain goats here but us poor road plodders find that a struggle.

OP you will not get a Berlin type course in Ireland, so put in the work and you will be able for whatever one yeah decide to do. If its your first and only go for one of the city marathons as the experience will be better.

farrelli

Thanks a million for all the replies, very much appreciated. I didn't realise that so many took place. Cheers.