IMRA Season 2014

nerraw1111

Well that was a great evening for a run. That’s what Wednesdays are all about, blue skies, open mountain, lake views and a bit of bog .

Great race for topping up the vitamin D levels.

nolinejudge

nerraw1111 wrote: »

Well that was a great evening for a run. That’s what Wednesdays are all about, blue skies, open mountain, lake views and a bit of bog .

Great race for topping up the vitamin D levels.

You had a cracking run and no falls.

Great view coming down.

summit2summit

Great race last night. Great route, views and weather!

johnruns

Class running by Rathfarnhams Mark Ryan last weekend gold medal at the European Masters.

nerraw1111

Careful now, it's a jungle out there.

Details have emerged about the rescue of two hillwalkers who became trapped in a forest of Rhododendron plants in the Knockmealdown Mountains

Jimmy Barry of the South Eastern Mountain Rescue said it took two hours to battle through 400 meters of jungle-like conditions to reach the couple....He said the team was "exhausted" following the rescue

http://www.rte.ie/news/2014/0617/624367-rhododendron-rescue/

PaulieC

nerraw1111 wrote: »

Careful now, it's a jungle out there.





http://www.rte.ie/news/2014/0617/624367-rhododendron-rescue/

Heard that on the news this morning. Must've been embarrassing to get lost in a flowerbed

summit2summit

Random question, would you prefer a buff or technical tshirt?

nolinejudge

summit2summit wrote: »

Random question, would you prefer a buff or technical tshirt?

I have lots of both at this stage. A good quality tee will get more use than a buff with me.

Enduro

Buffs are useless for me. Have about 6. Use none.

Rogue Runner

summit2summit wrote: »

Random question, would you prefer a buff or technical tshirt?

Tshirt for me. Have a Buff and would say I use it about 2 or 3 times all year.

axe2grind

Don't use buffs

Great outing Saturday. B.harte here came up with a sea to summit route taking in Carrauntoohil, so at 5am 5 of us set off from the beach at Rossbeigh. 45km and 1,800+ metres of ascending later in glorious weather and surroundings we ended up back at the Climbers Inn in Glencar.

b.harte

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so at 5am 5 of us set off from the beach at Rossbeigh. 45km and 1,800+ metres of ascending later in glorious weather and surroundings we ended up back at the Climbers Inn in Glencar.

We will have to start earlier next year :-)
Can't imagine we will get Caher as dry again.

b.harte

b.harte wrote: »

We will have to start earlier next year :-)
Can't imagine we will get Caher as dry again.

It's rarely that glorious, but on the other hand the Reeks are not bad for weather, more clear days than Mount Brandon, Mweelrea, Hungry Hill and other great summits that are pretty much on the sea in the west and south west. The IMRA run this year was in very good weather.

nerraw1111

Great race last night, the organisers came up with a fantastic route, taking in four summits of Seefin, skirting seefingan, Corrig and Seehan. And not a fire road in sight.

Mostly dry on top besides the odd bog of doom. Lovely open mountain. Went out a bit too fast myself and suffered a bit in early stages.

paulocon2

nerraw1111 wrote: »

Great race last night, the organisers came up with a fantastic route, taking in four summits of Seefin, skirting seefingan, Corrig and Seehan. And not a fire road in sight.

Mostly dry on top besides the odd bog of doom. Lovely open mountain. Went out a bit too fast myself and suffered a bit in early stages.

Great race and loved the new route, much better that the out and back from a couple of years back. Was glad of the dry ground for the crossing from Seefingan to Corrig. The descent of Seefingan on the soft bouncy ground is amazing and the descent to the finish was also very enjoyable.

Roll on Ballinastoe next week!

nerraw1111

Another great race today. Similar route to Wednesday but with Kippure added on.

Got lucky with the weather with superb views and dry conditions. Seefingan to Kippure was brilliant. Lots of peat hags which took a real effort. From there back to Corrig mountain. About 600 metres from end, I went right instead of left and added an extra km or so.

The winner did the 13 miles in under 2 hours. Amazing stuff given it was all open mountain.

summit2summit

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ThisRegard

Same courses as last year Summit ? The shorter course was great, didn't have it in me at the time to do the longer one.

summit2summit

ThisRegard wrote: »

Same courses as last year Summit ? The shorter course was great, didn't have it in me at the time to do the longer one.

The longer route has a minor change near the Tibradden Ridge (see updated map) but other than that the route is the same. The new section this year is some of the nicest trail I have ever run in Dublin

nerraw1111

It's no Sugar Loaf - Alaska's famous Mt Marathon race.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHIxBCLi8jQ

Peterx

Massive weekend of domestic and international Irish hillrunning on the horizon kids.
The Irish Championship comes down to the final race with 3 lads all with a serious chance of the win on Galtymore. I was in this very position before and it's EXCITING. So it is.
That's on Sunday and with a very unfortunate scheduling clash we have the trial race for the Uphill World Championships on Saturday in Djouce Woods.

At least back in my one glorious year of fitness (fado fado) I had a week between the Irish Champs and the Internationals. The same weekend makes it next to impossible to combine the two unless your name is John or Robbie.

I have become one of those ould lads that talks about "their" time, back in the day! YUK...:D

Slogger Jogger

unfortunate scheduling clash alright. It happens often enough that Irish Champs events clash with a trial so either event is potentially being diminished by not getting all the main names to the same race. A pity.

Galtees should be good alright. It will be particularly interesting if the mist is down and weather is bad.

Peterx

Strong running by Brian MacMahon saw him win the trial race on a dry Djouce today in 31:50. Not far behind was Ian Conroy, just back from training in Italy with Brian Furey. James Kevan and Tom Hogan took 3rd and 4th.
The Leinster League joint champions Des Kennedy and Brian Furey came 5th and 6th in about 35 minutes - about 12~15 seconds between them. Killian Mooney had a storming run in the junior race and was ahead of Tom/Des/Brian to the summit.
About 35 minutes is 110% of Brian's time so hopefully (in my opinion) Des will be sent. Tim O'Donohue may or may not be either pre-selected or available.

A hard year and various injuries caught up with Barry Minnock, Emmet Jennings and Robert Malseed who all missed out on selection. I was even further back but at least I had a good view of the fight for the minor placings.
In the women there was a lot of pre selection and with Sarah Mulligan on volunteer duties after her elevation to the marathon (well done) Emma Donlon beat Laura O'Shaughnessy and Catherine O'Connor.
Fair play to the volunteers, it is a pity more people don't attend trial races.

Peterx

Well done to Bernard, Jason and Tom on filling out the Irish Champs podium.

I survived Galtymore '14!

Awful weather. Gales, hailstone, sleet, little or no visibility, saw a few tumbles as side of Galtymore was like water slide.

All in all, a great day out!

Slogger Jogger

Nav challenge this Sunday down my neck of the woods. As surveyor in chief I'd recommend it, particularly the longer of the 2 course options, which should give you about 18k of very varied hill running, unless you managed to find shortcuts that I haven't anticipated.

ocnoc

18.2km with 700m of the vertical stuff.
Highly enjoyable!

climbhigh

Great run by Killian Mooney in the WMRA Grand Prix race in Austria on Sunday - just behind a junior who got 4th in the 2013 Europeans and ahead of the junior who got 4th in the 2014 Europeans. Ian Conroy had an excellent run also.

See http://www.saalfelden-leogang.com/fileadmin/content_sale/events/asitzgipfelberglauf/2014/2014_asitzgipfelberglauf.pdf

climbhigh

Photo of Sarah Tunstall (GBR) in WMRA Grand Prix race.