Tubbercurry 10k (17/3/13)

ecoli

Anyone have a course profile of this one or even just know what roads it runs along?

Running this next week but can't find any info on the actual course

Abhainn

ecoli wrote: »

Anyone have a course profile of this one or even just know what roads it runs along?

Running this next week but can't find any info on the actual course

I think I got some info from T Runner on this last year but can't locate it now.
Route is not flat but then I don't believe any major hills on the course either.
PM the man himself , I think he got on the podium last year

ecoli

Abhainn wrote: »

I think I got some info from T Runner on this last year. Not flat but then I don't believe any major hills on the course.
PM the man himself , I think he got on the podium last year

Cheers. not looking for flat just like to know where I am going Know the area well enough and there is no real drastic hills about the place though a few nice gradual climbs depending what roads taken

conseng

tubber course.jpg

This is a screenshot from map my run, basically a 1 mile loop in town, out mountain road, take a left over to R294, left again and back to town. Not a flat course but a nice downhill finish.

Last years course, I assume it hasn't changed.

petermijackson

ecoli wrote: »

Anyone have a course profile of this one or even just know what roads it runs along?

Running this next week but can't find any info on the actual course

My garmin link from last years race, assume its the same.

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/159665154

Enjoy the large selection of cakes & treats afterwards!!!

T runner

petermijackson wrote: »

My garmin link from last years race, assume its the same.

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/159665154

Enjoy the large selection of cakes & treats afterwards!!!

Peters pacimg is good there. You can see that the second half is a lot faster than the first. If you can sit into a group slightly within yourself to where it turns at the highest point around 3-4k you can push on from there and pick off places. There was a good 34-5 min group last year. The last k is downhill and lightening fast. No matter how tired you are you can run it under 3 mins and get more places. Its worth jogging up and down that last section so you know exactly what to do when you reach that point. Its a wee gem of a race.

W.B. Yeats

Forecaast for the weekend is very mixed- cold, snow etc
Can you register on the day?
I'm not 100% convinced about signing up, it could end up as a week of 3 races which is slightly crazy- 10km, BHAA XC and Dunboyne-

cloneslad

Just back in the girlfriend's parent's house after doing this run. Despite the windy conditions in the hilly part from 5.5-7.5k I thought the running conditions were very good.

The organisers did a fantastic job, this was definitely the best locally (most likely best all round) organised race I've taken part in. The stewards were great, the chip timing and course were very accurate, the finish line area was well marshalled, the people in kilorans pub were extremely friendly and there was an absolute abundance of tasty looking buns, cake and sandwiches. I even noticed a stream of the race being shown in the corner of the pub.... EDIT- Though this may have been last year's race as I think I saw t-runner winning it, but he's not in the results list.

Chip timing, proper running t-shirts, an accurate course, finish time available at the bar, mountain of food and a very friendly atmosphere, all for €15. Some race organisers could do worse than getting in touch with these guys and seeking their advice.

I'll definitely be making the trip down for it next year too. I'll just try not to play a rugby match the Friday night before it like I did this weekend.

T runner

cloneslad wrote: »

Just back in the girlfriend's parent's house after doing this run. Despite the windy conditions in the hilly part from 5.5-7.5k I thought the running conditions were very good.

The organisers did a fantastic job, this was definitely the best locally (most likely best all round) organised race I've taken part in. The stewards were great, the chip timing and course were very accurate, the finish line area was well marshalled, the people in kilorans pub were extremely friendly and there was an absolute abundance of tasty looking buns, cake and sandwiches. I even noticed a stream of the race being shown in the corner of the pub.... EDIT- Though this may have been last year's race as I think I saw t-runner winning it, but he's not in the results list.

Chip timing, proper running t-shirts, an accurate course, finish time available at the bar, mountain of food and a very friendly atmosphere, all for €15. Some
race organisers could do worse than getting in touch with these guys and seeking their advice.

I'll definitely be making the trip down for it next year too. I'll just try not to play a rugby match the Friday night before it like I did this weekend.

I ran last year allright but emmett dunleavy was first. A great all round race. Hoping ill be around for lisadell/carney over easter....another good one.

cloneslad

T runner wrote: »

I ran last year allright but emmett dunleavy was first. A great all round race. Hoping ill be around for lisadell/carney over easter....another good one.

Damn him and his quickness!

W.B. Yeats

Ran this: found it tough going but I was very happy with my time- 42.05 all things considered. Great value race, lovely spread afterwards, missed getting a tshirt but not too worried by that, course was accurate and timing/results available almost immediately at the end in Kilorans.

I PBed (funnily enough I had never actually raced a 10km before) but thought it was neither a PB course nor a day for PBs. It was cold and very windy - we turned a corner around 5km in, to go downhill for a bit and were met by a gale- and the hills kept going and going and going, the downhill at the end didn't feel like it made up for the previous uphills!

A small gripe about traffic on the course during the race- one guy passed me out and then he had to weave in and out of runners because there were cars parked on the opposite side of the road, another guy shot out of a side road just in front of me when there was a gap between runners.

I'd do it again, there seemed like a very decent set of club runners and if you could grab onto a group you'd be in good stead to go fast.