NEW: Tymon Park Run

maguic24

Hello All,

There's a park run starting in Tymon Park this Saturday if anyone is living in that area.

Linky:

http://www.parkrun.ie/tymon/

adrian522

maguic24 wrote: »

Hello All,

There's a park run starting in Tymon Park this Saturday if anyone is living in that area.

Linky:

http://www.parkrun.ie/tymon/

Nice one, not in great shape just now but may trot around the course on saturday!

maguic24

adrian522 wrote: »

Nice one, not in great shape just now but may trot around the course on saturday!

Oh don't worry I'll be the fat pasty one coming in last. :P I'm delirah, live right opposite it.

RayCun

Anyone (meno?) post up a course map that explains which direction the runners go. There's a course map on the web page, but all I can tell from that is that we're in Tymon park

davedanon

Yeah, I noticed that too. We know that park like the back of our hands, but without a few helpful arrows it's impossible to tell anything about the route.

davedanon

There's a group doing a course recce tomorrow night, and meno and probably myself will be there, so we'll be in a position to clarify the course direction after that.

menoscemo

RayCun wrote: »

Anyone (meno?) post up a course map that explains which direction the runners go. There's a course map on the web page, but all I can tell from that is that we're in Tymon park

Yep as Dave says, we will be doing a recce tomorrow night (for anyone interested see the FB Page). I will post up a garmin link afterwards.

A few already recce'd the course yesterday morning so there might already be a few garmin links floating about???

Peterx

menoscemo wrote: »

Yep as Dave says, we will be doing a recce tomorrow night (for anyone interested see the FB Page). I will post up a garmin link afterwards.

A few already recce'd the course yesterday morning so there might already be a few garmin links floating about???

http://app.strava.com/activities/135103317 this may not be the finished product but it was what Ais and Rob showed me.

I think it will be quicker than Marlay Park which should help. According to Strava there are 19m of climbing in Tymon as compared to 48m of climbing in Marlay.

RayCun

Peterx wrote: »

http://app.strava.com/activities/135103317 this may not be the finished product but it was what Ais and Rob showed me.

it doesn't include km markers either
The start is at the bottom of a hill, I presume you run up from there to the bridge? Did you turn left at the top of the hill or right?

Think I have it figured out.
Start at the bottom of the hill, beside the Sli na Slainte marker
Run north past the astroturf pitch
Left at the first junction, towards the motorway
Left again, past the footbridge and down beside the roundabout
Loop around there, past the pylon, and turn right to go downhill and through start line again
Then the big lap around the outside and back to the footbridge
Fast 100m downhill to the finish line (and straight through, braking on spectators :pac:)

Run and Jump

Looking forward to this - Tymon Park is a great place to run. If my current niggles clear up, I'll be there this Saturday morning for the first of many!

menoscemo

RayCun wrote: »

it doesn't include km markers either
The start is at the bottom of a hill, I presume you run up from there to the bridge? Did you turn left at the top of the hill or right?

Put your mouse over the elevation map and you can follow the route.

No- It looks like you do a smaller loop first running away from the hill. By the looks of it you never actuall have to run up the hill, rather the longer drags

Peterx

menoscemo wrote: »

Put your mouse over the elevation map and you can follow the route.

No- It looks like you do a smaller loop first running away from the hill. By the looks of it you never actuall have to run up the hill, rather the longer drags

Cheers Menoscemo - yes you can drag along the profile. Starts on the flat.
As I said though, this may NOT be finalised route.

RayCun

menoscemo wrote: »

Put your mouse over the elevation map and you can follow the route.

ah jaysus, that was easier than zooming in

Lucas Hood

Must make it up to this one of the weeks.

davedanon

Ah, figured it out now too. Looks like a good route, I like it.

plodder

Great news this is starting and will definitely drop over some week to do it. I think it's worth adding a more detailed description of the route (it could be the organisers hadn't finalised it before the deadline for the website). You'd be surprised how many people look at it. For a while, our course page had the instructions going the wrong direction and it caused some confusion for a visiting (sub 16 min) runner one day. The signs can be hard to read when going full belt.

crisco10

Might pop along to this since I'm doing nothing else on Saturday. Having never been to the park before, maybe someone could give me a heads up on the best place to park?

Thanks

adrian522

crisco10 wrote: »

Might pop along to this since I'm doing nothing else on Saturday. Having never been to the park before, maybe someone could give me a heads up on the best place to park?

Thanks

There's a car park right by the entrance, up from the spawell on the left.

menoscemo

adrian522 wrote: »

There's a car park right by the entrance, up from the spawell on the left.

Much as Marlay ask people not to park in the front carpark (so as not to fill up the carpark for normal park users), Tymon are asking Parkrunners not to use that car park. Official parking is at the National Basketball Arena. From there it is about a 400m jog up the lane, over the M50 bridge and down the hill to the start....

http://goo.gl/maps/ozZuN

Map shows 600m but if you take the obvious shortcut over the fireld to the M50 bridge it is less...

RayCun

There is a large car park in the Spawell BUT they have been known to get clampers in when non-customers park there.
There is a car park on Tymon Road/Castletymon Road on the lawless side of the M50, and there's parking outside the school on Limekiln Road (north side of park), both only a few minutes warm-up jog from the start line

menoscemo

RayCun wrote: »

There is a large car park in the Spawell BUT they have been known to get clampers in when non-customers park there.
There is a car park on Tymon Road/Castletymon Road on the lawless side of the M50, and there's parking outside the school on Limekiln Road (north side of park), both only a few minutes warm-up jog from the start line

From Tymon Park run page:

Its getting close! We'll be posting up more details during the week. Parking for the Tymon parkrun will be in the National Basketball Arena.

adrian522

menoscemo wrote: »

Much as Marlay ask people not to park in the front carpark (so as not to fill up the carpark for normal park users), Tymon are asking Parkrunners not to use that car park. Official parking is at the National Basketball Arena. From there it is about a 400m jog up the lane, over the M50 bridge and down the hill to the start....

http://goo.gl/maps/ozZuN

Map shows 600m but if you take the obvious shortcut over the fireld to the M50 bridge it is less...

Opps. Sorry.

RayCun

I should have said
"There is also a...."

The car park near the start line and playgrounds seems like the easiest option, but it fills up very quickly, especially when there is overflow from the GAA clubs and football club. If you went to that car park and found it full you might end up tempted by the Spawell car park, and if you do that you might end up getting clamped. Better to avoid that corner of the park altogether and go to the NBA or one of the car parks on a different side of the park.

paddybarry

Would this be considered a much quicker course than Marley?

davedanon

Don't be put off by the road works on the Basketball Arena driveway - there's still access to the carpark. Just follow your nose. they're upgrading the access road (and buggering up our club race xc route in the process)

RayCun

paddybarry wrote: »

Would this be considered a much quicker course than Marley?

there is no real hill, but mile 3 is going to hurt

davedanon

The finish down the hill is going to be quadshredding-tastic.

maguic24

Wow, I didn't expect there to be so much interest in this. I can has all the boards running friends? ^___^

menoscemo

Here is the garmin link of the course as promised:
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/519413004

digger2d2

menoscemo wrote: »

Here is the garmin link of the course as promised:
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/519413004

Looks like a season's best for you there

Cleanman

RayCun wrote: »

there is no real hill, but mile 3 is going to hurt

Find me a 5k route where mile 3 doesn't hurt Ray and I'll be there with bells on! I'm in horrible shape at the moment but I plan to pop down in the morning for a shuffle round. I've never been in Tymon before so looking forward to it.

FBOT01

Best of luck with the new Tymon parkrun. Hopefully I will get out to visit you at some stage over the summer.....enjoy!!

paddybarry

Looking forward to this.

Amigaman

good luck to Tymon parkrun today , sorry I wont be there its Griffeen's 1st birthday and I'll be at the party ( somebody promised cake :-) ) but looking forward to running Tymon in the near future

AdpRo

Well done to all involved this morning, really enjoyed it, easier course than Marley as well!! One small suggestion is to try and have km markers in future.

maguic24

Weetabix wrote: »

Well done to all involved this morning, really enjoyed it, easier course than Marley as well!! One small suggestion is to try and have km markers in future.

I just live near the park, I'm actually not involved with park run.

I missed it this morning because I was on a late night hike yesterday evening! Gutted!! But hopefully will start getting out a bit after next week.

menoscemo

I was time keeping this morning, everything went really well bar a few little things we learned. 160 finishers which was more than expected. Build it and they will come!!
Results are already uploaded and should be live very soon.

Edit: Results already up!! http://www.parkrun.ie/tymon/results/latestresults/

adrian522

Well done today, very enjoyable run !

paddybarry

Well done all volunteers today, your efforts are much appreciated. Excellent course. First couple of miles are quick. I went off too hard and was cooked for the last mile.

FBOT01

maguic24 wrote: »

I just live near the park, I'm actually not involved with park run...YET

I missed it this morning because I was on a late night hike yesterday evening! Gutted!! But hopefully will start getting out a bit after next week.

Just corrected your typo:D

AdpRo

menoscemo wrote: »

I was time keeping this morning, everything went really well bar a few little things we learned. 160 finishers which was more than expected. Build it and they will come!!
Results are already uploaded and should be live very soon.

Edit: Results already up!! http://www.parkrun.ie/tymon/results/latestresults/

So your the reason I missed my target that I have been trying to get for 18 months by 1 second today after missing by 5 seconds the last time I really went for it in Santry just before christmas!!!

How would you compare todays course to Kilcock? Ran a small PB today and hope to do the same in Dunshaughlin and Kilcock in the next 2 weeks.

davedanon

Thought today went very smoothly. 160 runners is a good start, and it can only grow from here. All concerned deserve great credit. Just squeaked under the 20 today, Derry still in the legs obviously, but it was almost good enough to get in the top 10 all the same. Might have half an eye on the age-graded league table this year.

menoscemo

Weetabix wrote: »

So your the reason I missed my target that I have been trying to get for 18 months by 1 second today after missing by 5 seconds the last time I really went for it in Santry just before christmas!!!

How would you compare todays course to Kilcock? Ran a small PB today and hope to do the same in Dunshaughlin and Kilcock in the next 2 weeks.

Haha, my timing was not needed today (I was backup) so you can't blame me!!

Kilcock would be significantly faster. Tymon is a fair course but Kilcock has no climbs at all. Tymon also finishes a few metres above the start while Kilcock is the opposite.

paddybarry

Nice turnout again this morning. Very well run and organised.

menoscemo

claralara is going to be Race Director at this next week.
Allegedly (courtesy of TRR) her pre-race briefing is going to go something like this:

"so roight goys you are running this way and there's, loike a hill and OMG it's really steep. Nearly as steep as the slope I skied in Verbier, Switzerland. So loike keep on running, loike really fast. For those of you who are interested the nearest starbuckies is loike in Dundrum. OK goys have a good one"

Should be good fun :pac:

FBOT01

menoscemo wrote: »

claralara is going to be Race Director at this next week.
Allegedly (courtesy of TRR) her pre-race briefing is going to go something like this:

"so roight goys you are running this way and there's, loike a hill and OMG it's really steep. Nearly as steep as the slope I skied in Verbier, Switzerland. So loike keep on running, loike really fast. For those of you who are interested the nearest starbuckies is loike in Dundrum. OK goys have a good one"

Should be good fun :pac:

I am pretty sure Starbucks in Nutgrove is closer than Dundrum but I'm from DNS so couldn't be sure:)

menoscemo

FBOT01 wrote: »

I am pretty sure Starbucks in Nutgrove is closer than Dundrum but I'm from DNS so couldn't be sure:)

Yeah but loike OMG Nutgrove is sooooo common

paddybarry

I think Tymon is tougher than Marlay.........................

davedanon

menoscemo wrote: »

claralara is going to be Race Director at this next week.
Allegedly (courtesy of TRR) her pre-race briefing is going to go something like this:

"so roight goys you are running this way and there's, loike a hill and OMG it's really steep. Nearly as steep as the slope I skied in Verbier, Switzerland. So loike keep on running, loike really fast. For those of you who are interested the nearest starbuckies is loike in Dundrum. OK goys have a good one"

Rosie O'Carroll-Kelly?

TRR

davedanon wrote: »

Rosie O'Carroll-Kelly?

ya, totes amazeballs!

davedanon

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