River Moy Half Marathon 16th May 2015

Running Fool

This is next Sat - lining up myself and hoping to break my 1.32 PB.

Apparently a flat enough course. There are some hills but seem to be mainly in only one section based on reports.

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snailsong

Yes, quite a nice course. Unfortunately might be a bit windy on Saturday.
There will be pacers for 1.30 if you want to go with them.
I'll be pacing 1.50. Good luck.

Running Fool

Ugh - fingers crossed for no wind - pointless as it may be to say that!

dublin runner

Really good race. Just one very sharp short to negotiate. Asides from that, a typical country route with ups and downs.

Running Fool

dublin runner wrote: »

Really good race. Just one very sharp short to negotiate. Asides from that, a typical country route with ups and downs.


*I hope they have a runner pacer for the 1.30 as last year it was a cyclist. Far from ideal.

Nuts, don't like the sound of that.

dublin runner

Running Fool wrote:

Nuts, don't like the sound of that.

It's a really good course. Really enjoyed it the last two years. The last few miles are quick.

Running Fool

dublin runner wrote: »

It's a really good course. Really enjoyed it the last two years. The last few miles are quick.

Fingers crossed, hoping for a PB but have had a few stumbles in the last few weeks. Will line up with the 1.30 person anyway.

dublin runner

Running Fool wrote:

Fingers crossed, hoping for a PB but have had a few stumbles in the last few weeks. Will line up with the 1.30 person anyway.

Have s good one. One of my favourite races.

Just watch out for the trad band around 8 miles! Gave me a great laugh the first year. Brilliant.

Running Fool

Great race. Well organized, friendly.

Got in at 1.30.02 - over 2mins PB and was pretty comfortable up till mile 9. Just couldn't push it for the last mile and a half. Sprint finish, but those 2 secs were gone.
Was very windy in sections, particularly one very exposed section about mile 5 or 6, also quite a lot more hills than I expected. Some rain too, but that was cooling more than anything else.

Certainly on a flatter course I would have done better. But also it put to bed a couple of bad races recently when I thought I should be doing better.
Just lining up with the 1.30 pacer was a great idea, and leaves me confident of the possibility of A Lot of training putting me into the 1.20's or so.

Also the pacer doing 1.30 was great, very chatty, kept group morale up.

Def a race I'd recommend.

snailsong

Running Fool wrote: »

Great race. Well organized, friendly.

Got in at 1.30.02 - over 2mins PB and was pretty comfortable up till mile 9. Just couldn't push it for the last mile and a half. Sprint finish, but those 2 secs were gone.
Was very windy in sections, particularly one very exposed section about mile 5 or 6, also quite a lot more hills than I expected. Some rain too, but that was cooling more than anything else.

Certainly on a flatter course I would have done better. But also it put to bed a couple of bad races recently when I thought I should be doing better.
Just lining up with the 1.30 pacer was a great idea, and leaves me confident of the possibility of A Lot of training putting me into the 1.20's or so.

Also the pacer doing 1.30 was great, very chatty, kept group morale up.

Def a race I'd recommend.

Well done on the big pb. Pity about the 2 seconds, it'll make the 90 all the sweeter when it happens.

Paced 1:45 in the end, very enjoyable and got a good few in on time.

Tigerandahalf

2 guys ran it in 68 minutes. Seriously impressive stuff. Did one of those guys run the marathon in manchester recently or have I the wrong guy?

Krusty_Clown

Tigerandahalf wrote: »

2 guys ran it in 68 minutes. Seriously impressive stuff. Did one of those guys run the marathon in manchester recently or have I the wrong guy?

You might be thinking of last year's second place? This year Ultrapercy was in second in 72 mins (assuming the results are correct).

Tigerandahalf

Is today's winner targeting rio for the marathon?

Itziger

Tigerandahalf wrote: »

Is today's winner targeting rio for the marathon?

1.08.54 wouldn't be good enough, brutal and all as that may sound.

Which leads me to ask, what would you have to be running for a Half?

1.05?

ultrapercy

Itziger wrote: »

1.08.54 wouldn't be good enough, brutal and all as that may sound.

Which leads me to ask, what would you have to be running for a Half?

1.05?

He is indeed targeting Rio. He is running Berlin in September. He has a marathon pb of 2.19 which he is hoping to improve. I wouldn't read too much into yesterday's time, he is just coming back from injury it was a tough course with lots of long draws and some forrest trail to deal with. Also he was Running solo with his nearest challanger (me) over 3 mind behind.He looked fluent and relaxed I'm told. He has a strong outside chance of 2.17 so Rio is not a ridiculous ambition for him.

woody1

Running Fool wrote: »

Great race. Well organized, friendly.

Got in at 1.30.02 - over 2mins PB and was pretty comfortable up till mile 9. Just couldn't push it for the last mile and a half. Sprint finish, but those 2 secs were gone.
Was very windy in sections, particularly one very exposed section about mile 5 or 6, also quite a lot more hills than I expected. Some rain too, but that was cooling more than anything else.

Certainly on a flatter course I would have done better. But also it put to bed a couple of bad races recently when I thought I should be doing better.
Just lining up with the 1.30 pacer was a great idea, and leaves me confident of the possibility of A Lot of training putting me into the 1.20's or so.

Also the pacer doing 1.30 was great, very chatty, kept group morale up.

Def a race I'd recommend.

looking through the results , a lot of people i know locally ran pbs, the wind whilst bad enough on the way out mustve been pushing ye back in a bit too..
not a hilly course as such, but theres a long drag from town up and most of the time in the wind to where you turn off the main road..
was driving through town when a lot of the 1.48-1.50s were running through was great to watch a big crowd running through town..

snailsong

woody1 wrote: »

looking through the results , a lot of people i know locally ran pbs, the wind whilst bad enough on the way out mustve been pushing ye back in a bit too..
not a hilly course as such, but theres a long drag from town up and most of the time in the wind to where you turn off the main road..
was driving through town when a lot of the 1.48-1.50s were running through was great to watch a big crowd running through town..

It was more of a cross wind on the Killala Road. Km 10-13 ran pretty fast with a tailwind and downhill, most picked up.a few seconds here.