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VHI Women's Mini Marathon - 1st June
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21-05-2015 9:42pm#1Doesn't seem to be a thread for this? I did search but maybe I missed it
Anyway, I'm running this for the second time and hoping for a good day! I'm more confident about it for having had a of training and the last two months of marathon training. We'll see!!0
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Ahhh just what I have been looking for, thanks TFGR
Couple of questions: the course map on the website is not very helpful. I'm quite familiar with the area but anyone want to do a Bungy Girl/ Tunguska-style overview of the course?
Also do we still have to go over the footbridge?! :eek:
Finally, where is the turn back point, I'm guessing Fosters Avenue?
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Ahhh just what I have been looking for, thanks TFGR
Couple of questions: the course map on the website is not very helpful. I'm quite familiar with the area but anyone want to do a Bungy Girl/ Tunguska-style overview of the course?
Also do we still have to go over the footbridge?! :eek:
Finally, where is the turn back point, I'm guessing Fosters Avenue?
Tia
We don't have to go over the footbridge again this year, TG!
Turning point is at Fosters Avenue again - they probably will have a mat to run over for your timing chip to make sure you don't scoot under the tape on the Stillorgan Road.
Looking forward to it again this year - have done it a few times but in the last year I have been running more regularly, a lot of 5k's, a couple of 10Ks under the belt since then too so hoping next Monday goes well. I'm scared to get my hopes up to much, nothing as bad as a race not working out for you on the day.0 -
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Sunny Dayz wrote: »We don't have to go over the footbridge again this year, TG!
Turning point is at Fosters Avenue again - they probably will have a mat to run over for your timing chip to make sure you don't scoot under the tape on the Stillorgan Road.
Looking forward to it again this year - have done it a few times but in the last year I have been running more regularly, a lot of 5k's, a couple of 10Ks under the belt since then too so hoping next Monday goes well. I'm scared to get my hopes up to much, nothing as bad as a race not working out for you on the day.
Thanks Sunny Dayz! Best of luck, it sounds like you'll do well (ps start conservatively and start to build after you warm into it ex 3-4k in) 0 -
Couple of questions: the course map on the website is not very helpful. I'm quite familiar with the area but anyone want to do a Bungy Girl/ Tunguska-style overview of the course?
Hey DG, I ran this last year (first year of the revised course) and while the memory is too hazy for a detailed report (I'm a northsider after all
) I do remember a couple of things that might be useful. BTW that map on the WMM website doesn't look to be to scale at all: Km 4 to Km 5 looks to be underestimated and, as mentioned below the stretch from the turn at Nutley Lane up to the turnaround point goes on for a lot longer than it looks on the map :rolleyes:
Km 1 is very fast (too fast!). Very easy to go off like a bullet especially as you'll be up front with little or no congestion. Nothing of note then until Nutley Lane which has a tough enough long drag. Once you turn the corner until the turnaround I think this is actually the hardest part of the course. It's long and as far as I remember there's a dip in the road so you go down and up before you turn around, then same again as you head back towards town. Once you hit the 7Km mark or even a bit before I remember being able to get into a rhythm again and the last 3Km were pretty fast.
HTH. I didn't have a particularly good run here last year but I thought the route was pretty good and worked better than the original one which had more twists and turns.
Hope to be out cheering on Monday. Probably Donnybrook as lots of places to get a decent coffee.
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It's still too early for an accurate weather forecast for Monday. Leave till Friday at least before starting to panic on that front!
I would agree. It was scheduled to rain all day for the Limerick run. While the forecast was correct, from the point of view that there was a torrential downpour, it didn't start until about 5 mins after I finished my half 0 -
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Has anyone printed out their letter yet and if so does it have a bar code on it? When i click mine it has 2 x's where pictures should be but i cant see what they are and from recollection i think one of them might be a bar code.
Does that make sense to anyone? 0 -
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I know, and here's me off to Umbria for my warm weather taper :rolleyes: Best of luck Monday!I know!!! It was so warm the last two years, though, maybe rain will be better? (Though I did do a 10k race in Washington DC in the heat last weekend that I thought would prepare me for a hot WMM. Oh well!)
Good luck, everyone!
No, I've emailed mine to my mam to print off. If anything like that happens the poor lil technophobe is likely to have a mini-meltdown :eek:Hannibal Smith wrote: »Has anyone printed out their letter yet and if so does it have a bar code on it? When i click mine it has 2 x's where pictures should be but i cant see what they are and from recollection i think one of them might be a bar code.
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Well done everyone!
Wet conditions but I still enjoyed the race. I went to the race with two goals in mind: 1) To run without stopping to walk and 2) to beat last year's time by 10 minutes. I definitely did the first, and pretty sure I did the second though I can't find any results online to confirm. I'm working on a race report which I'll post to my blog and training log here. 0 -
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This Fat Girl Runs wrote: »Well done everyone!
Wet conditions but I still enjoyed the race. I went to the race with two goals in mind: 1) To run without stopping to walk and 2) to beat last year's time by 10 minutes. I definitely did the first, and pretty sure I did the second though I can't find any results online to confirm. I'm working on a race report which I'll post to my blog and training log here.
Delighted to hear that, well done!!! Pretty sure results won't be up til tomorrow after they've been published (Herald. I think) :mad:
But again, congratulations, well-deserved boost for you!0 -
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Well done to all. My first time doing the WMM and I loved it despite the 50 shades of grey skies Last 2k it started p*ssing down.
Hoping I scraped in under 55 - If so, it means beat my first and last 10k from March by around 2 minutes. It was a lovely course, fair play to all the supporters and stewards who braved the elements for the afternoon. Great atmosphere in town the whole day. 0 -
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Well done to the organisers of the Mini-Marathon - it was well run yesterday. Plenty of marshalls, all very helpful. Am I the only one who thought the weather was ok, I was expecting a lot worse and I think we met it on the motorway going home.
I was in the blue section and thought the start was seemless enough, apart from dodging the disgarded bin bags and ponchos. First 3kms were difficult enough trying to dodge the walkers (why would you register to jog if you are just going to walk?!). By the time I got to the turn at Frascati Shopping Centre there was more space for running. I found the hill up from the UCD flyover very difficult and had to slow to a walk up it. Once we got around the turning point at Fosters avenue I knew we were on the home straight. No firemen out in Donnybrook
The little kids out cheering people along was great, some of them had their hands out for a high five, I made sure to get a few of them! I swear they helped me run faster!! Up Leeson St was a difficult one, the incline just not helping the tired legs. When I turned the last corner and could see the finish line I went flat out but jeez I thought I'd never get to the line, I was running out of steam.
I found the km's were passing by quick enough this year where as before I was looking around for them to see was I nearly there yet. Great atmosphere again there this year, that's one of the things I love about the Mini-Marathon. Noticed very few men dressed up at the race this year. I have never minded a few men doing the mini marathon as any I have ever seen were doing it in fancy dress and for fund raising. In prior years they used to be great banter, they would whistle and cheer as they passed and get a good cheer and a laugh and generally keeping spirits up. This year it felt like they had kept their heads down incase they got kicked out. I had a long walk after to get to the baggage area and then to Grafton St to meet my family and onto O'Connell St for the Luas to Hueston to get the car. But in good form today, tired but no aches or pains. Did plenty of stretching after the race and again after I got home and had a hot shower. I was actually scared I strained my calf with your one in the cool down area (maybe I didn't stay there long enough but she only seemed to have two moves). I went elsewhere and did my own stretches and was fine then.
Happy with my result, did it in 1hr 7 mins, big improvement on last year when I got 1hr 24 mins. I owe it to the local couch to 5k group that I joined last July. Not sure if I'll be in attendance this evening though... :P 0 -
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TRR_the_turd wrote: »Do you know if he was he allowed to cross the finish line?
I've been told he wasn't but you can see his number there in the pic
Somebody should recognise him, he should be ashamed of himself tbh. It certainly would have been preferable if he was pulled of the course before the finishing straight though that probably would have brought up a few safety issues.
There were a good few more men in the top 100-200 as well btw.0 -
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