Sean Craven Memorial 5K - Dundalk - April 9

dingonerd

Mountpleasant AC

Sean Craven Memorial 5k Road Race
Easter Monday 9th April 2012

Childrens Races start at 12noon
Senior Race Starts at 1pm..

All categories catered for incl teams

Pay on the day..usually €10..for senior race

No frills race. No tshirts/medals but you'll get a good
5k race and Refreshments afterwards and there is prizemoney.

- Mountpleasant Hall is just north of Dundalk on old Newry Road

pconn062

Good club race, looking forward to it.

NiallG4

This is last years garmin link of the race

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/81671087

tonyangelino

looks good race-by the way your splits on the bush track are 800s not 600s looking at it there??

NiallG4

tonyangelino wrote: »

looks good race-by the way your splits on the bush track are 800s not 600s looking at it there??

Thanks Tony. I changed it there for you. It was in fact 6 x 800m.

digdeep

Hoping to do this 5k. Have only done a few 5k's and 10k's so new to the runnning events. PB for 5k was 19:54 in the Patsy Kelly last weekend which was a great event. I'm gearing myself towards the half marathon in dundalk, i'm up to 11 miles but also enjoy sprint duathlons.

Not sure which is the best way to run these events! Should i go hard at the start and see what happens or keep at a steady pace the whole way around, thats what i did for the Patsy Kelly event. Can any of you more experienced runners give me any advise which would be greatly appreciated.

NiallG4

digdeep wrote: »

Hoping to do this 5k. Have only done a few 5k's and 10k's so new to the runnning events. PB for 5k was 19:54 in the Patsy Kelly last weekend which was a great event. I'm gearing myself towards the half marathon in dundalk, i'm up to 11 miles but also enjoy sprint duathlons.

Not sure which is the best way to run these events! Should i go hard at the start and see what happens or keep at a steady pace the whole way around, thats what i did for the Patsy Kelly event. Can any of you more experienced runners give me any advise which would be greatly appreciated.

19.54 is good for someone new. It is hard to advise not knowing your background/age/current training levels etc. I am no expert but just be careful of the 1st K in Mountpleasant. It is quite fast to the Ballymac roundabout and the 4th K is uphill from the Ballymac turn so save something for the downhill finish. It is a quite similar course to the PK 5K so you should be close to your PB. Maybe if you get another one or two races under your belt you could experiment and try and go out a bit faster for a 5K. The Seatown and Carlingford 5Ks are quicker courses so try and target one of those later in the Summer.

tonyangelino

NiallG4 wrote: »

tonyangelino wrote: »

looks good race-by the way your splits on the bush track are 800s not 600s looking at it there??

Thanks Tony. I changed it there for you. It was in fact 6 x 800m.

Good lad i knew you where quicker than that. be god.

digdeep

Thanks NiallG, looking forward to it on Monday. I will defo try and get to those other races cheers.