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Awards: Race of the year

  • 02-12-2014 1:11pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,370 ✭✭✭


    National Track and Field Championships (Santry)
    Morton Games.
    DCM 2014
    BHAA K club 10k
    Dunshaughlin 10k
    Wicklow Way Relay
    Jingle Bells 5k
    Stook 10 mile
    Raheny 5
    Parkrun series

    Feel free to discuss your decision, but remember no-one asked to be nominated so please don't talk down their selection/performance.

    Polls will be open for one week!

    Race of the year 59 votes

    National Track and Field Championships
    0% 0 votes
    Morton Games.
    3% 2 votes
    DCM 2014
    16% 10 votes
    BHAA K club 10k
    22% 13 votes
    Dunshaughlin 10k
    15% 9 votes
    Wicklow Way Relay
    5% 3 votes
    Jingle Bells 5k
    5% 3 votes
    Stook 10 mile
    5% 3 votes
    Raheny 5
    13% 8 votes
    Parkrun series
    13% 8 votes


Comments

  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 16,192 Mod ✭✭✭✭adrian522


    How is a race that hasn't happened on the list? I'm sure it will be great and all but still


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,610 ✭✭✭yaboya1


    Surprised the Beer Mile isn't nominated since it pushed the DCM close last year.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,454 ✭✭✭Clearlier


    adrian522 wrote: »
    How is a race that hasn't happened on the list? I'm sure it will be great and all but still

    Might have been one last year?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 213 ✭✭lukeeman


    Staplestown 50, a very well organised race


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 472 ✭✭Amigaman


    I wont deny I am biased but the numbers speak for themselves , so far. -781 events - 26,453 runners running 126,908 times for a combined distance of 634,540 km in 22 locations around the Republic of Ireland and all of that in 25 months , for a small little event parkrun has had a huge impact on a lot of lives, including my own - that's why it has my vote :-) - Ed


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,742 ✭✭✭ultraman1


    lukeeman wrote: »
    Staplestown 50, a very well organised race
    Why didn't u bleedin nominate it,,....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,900 ✭✭✭KielyUnusual


    Amigaman wrote: »
    I wont deny I am biased but the numbers speak for themselves , so far. -781 events - 26,453 runners running 126,908 times for a combined distance of 634,540 km in 22 locations around the Republic of Ireland and all of that in 25 months , for a small little event parkrun has had a huge impact on a lot of lives, including my own - that's why it has my vote :-) - Ed

    ....but it's not a race. :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 213 ✭✭lukeeman


    ultraman1 wrote: »
    Why didn't u bleedin nominate it,,....

    sorry ultraman1 havent been on here for awhile:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 472 ✭✭Amigaman


    ~I agree you are not racing anybody else in a parkrun ...bar yourself ...week in week out you race the toughest competitor you'll ever face ....he knows all your weakness's - he knows when your just dialing it in he know when you should have done better but when you best him and shave a couple of seconds of that P.B. there is no better feeling ...and parkrun allows you to throw down the gauntlet to yourself every week and say " Do Better" , and it does this week in week out - run by volunteers for runners completely free... :-)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,601 ✭✭✭Wubble Wubble


    Where's the Terenure 5 Mile? I probably enjoyed that one more than any in Ireland this year. Much as I like Raheny, my performance there in January was wojus. I'm not running Jingle Bells on Saturday, and didn't do any of the others listed apart from about 10 Parkruns. So Raheny it is...


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,340 ✭✭✭TFBubendorfer


    Where's the Terenure 5 Mile?

    As someone else said 3 posts ago:
    ultraman1 wrote: »
    Why didn't u bleedin nominate it,,....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,601 ✭✭✭Wubble Wubble


    I don't seem to have an option to add it to the poll (maybe limited to mods) and I only saw the thread this morning. (Un)fortunately I don't have the time to be checking these things morning, noon and night.

    I nominate Terenure 5. Surely it will get a vote or two.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,915 ✭✭✭✭menoscemo


    I don't seem to have an option to add it to the poll (maybe limited to mods) and I only saw the thread this morning. (Un)fortunately I don't have the time to be checking these things morning, noon and night.

    I nominate Terenure 5. Surely it will get a vote or two.

    There was a nomination thread, stickied at the top of this forum for over a week. The only way to get a race on the poll was for someone to nominate it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,704 ✭✭✭✭RayCun




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 606 ✭✭✭Slow_Runner


    K-club 10k is there for the cheesecake:D. Great race as well


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,697 ✭✭✭Chivito550


    I can't warm to this award. It will go to the one that most people ran (DCM). That doesn't mean it was the best race or meet. The sight of Barr beating the World Champ, English setting a stadium record, and a 3:51 mile by Leer at Morton Games far eclipses anything I witnessed at DCM. Nationals this year were excellent also with athletes going to Zurich having to race their own distance to gain selection. That 400m was absolutely stacked.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,791 ✭✭✭Enduro


    Chivito550 wrote: »
    I can't warm to this award. It will go to the one that most people ran (DCM). That doesn't mean it was the best race or meet. The sight of Barr beating the World Champ, English setting a stadium record, and a 3:51 mile by Leer at Morton Games far eclipses anything I witnessed at DCM. Nationals this year were excellent also with athletes going to Zurich having to race their own distance to gain selection. That 400m was absolutely stacked.

    It's funny how much we actually agree on! It's almost an impossibility for this to be anything other than a participation vote. With DCM the almost guaranteed winner the 2nd place is a more interesting outcome. I usually vote for the race with the least commercial / most grassroots base. So last year it was parkruns, this year probably the WW relay.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,704 ✭✭✭✭RayCun


    perhaps instead of warning us of the perils of democracy:), people could write a bit about what makes their chosen race/event special and deserving of people's votes?

    Too late for me, I already voted :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 558 ✭✭✭ECOLII


    For me Morton Games was highlight of the year for many reasons;

    - Fastest non Diamond League mile race of the year in the world

    - Seeing John Traver's with a breakthrough run leading a top quality field in the penultimate lap coming down the back straight

    - Seeing Irish athlete's be competitive across the international schedule (2 wins/ 2 stadium records and another 4 sub 4.01 milers)

    - Seeing Thomas Barr come back at the World Champion and beat him

    - Seeing Irish officials running a top notch international event and it running like clockwork.

    - Hearing the positive feedback from the international athletes (the ones that spoke English anyway) first hand and their willingness to come back year after year (without it just being empty words as have had some repeat athletes on the plinth the last two years.

    There is definitely a great buzz around the mass participation events like DCM but there seems to be a nostalgic feel around the magic of a top quality international track and field meet.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,370 ✭✭✭pconn062


    ECOLII wrote: »
    For me Morton Games was highlight of the year for many reasons;

    - Fastest non Diamond League mile race of the year in the world

    - Seeing John Traver's with a breakthrough run leading a top quality field in the penultimate lap coming down the back straight

    - Seeing Irish athlete's be competitive across the international schedule (2 wins/ 2 stadium records and another 4 sub 4.01 milers)

    - Seeing Thomas Barr come back at the World Champion and beat him

    - Seeing Irish officials running a top notch international event and it running like clockwork.

    - Hearing the positive feedback from the international athletes (the ones that spoke English anyway) first hand and their willingness to come back year after year (without it just being empty words as have had some repeat athletes on the plinth the last two years.

    There is definitely a great buzz around the mass participation events like DCM but there seems to be a nostalgic feel around the magic of a top quality international track and field meet.

    Yup, got my vote too. It was by far the most entertaining evening of athletics I've seen all year and the men's mile race alone was my race highlight of the year.


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