Great Railway Run 2016

raddo

The Great Railway Run 2016 is on Sunday 17th April.
http://www.thegreatrailwayrun.com/grrHome.php
It consists of three distances 25km from Cork City following what was the old railway line, 10km from Monkstown and 5km from Ringaskiddy all finishing in Carrigaline.


Previous years have been good and well organised.
The finish line has now been moved to the new youth centre.

This is my first year doing the 25km, looking forward to it!
Anyone else competing?

opus

Yup I'm running it with two friends, my 3rd time doing it now.

hot buttered scones

I'll be doing the 25k. Its a nice route with a couple of small pulls towards the end. I did it last year too and enjoyed the day.

livedadream

Doing the 5km, had signed up for the 10km but injury means im not fit in time, gutted coz i helps out with it last year and really wanted to run the balls of it this year.
im just gunna have to fly the 5km, dunno if ill come near the 16 minutes some child took it in last year though!
was Ahmazed by his speed!

will be nice finishing in the youth centre as well! tis fierce fancy!

hot buttered scones

livedadream wrote: »

Doing the 5km, had signed up for the 10km but injury means im not fit in time, gutted coz i helps out with it last year and really wanted to run the balls of it this year.
im just gunna have to fly the 5km, dunno if ill come near the 16 minutes some child took it in last year though!
was Ahmazed by his speed!

will be nice finishing in the youth centre as well! tis fierce fancy!

There's a bit of hill coming up out of Ringaskiddy, don't blow it all going up that!

livedadream

hot buttered scones wrote: »

There's a bit of hill coming up out of Ringaskiddy, don't blow it all going up that!

I know head wreck! they moved it this year and it was nice and flat last year, delighted to be able to run it and excited for it this year even if i am only doing the 5km instead of the 10km, hoping to do the 10km in dingle next week!

opus

Spotted on a bit of a jog earlier, think I ended up running ~8k of the route in the end.




Best of luck to everyone in the morning!

livedadream

nailed it 31:57 5km my best ever! onwards and upwards have to say it was organised amazing and the food after! jesus was like the laoves and the fishes! sandwichs, soup, fruit, cake, muffins, rice krispie cakes, cupcakes, and a run down from a physio if you wanted it.

spoilt we were!

opus

Shedloads of photos of the day via the Running in Cork blog.

Personally I had a ball, ran with two friends who are gunning for 3:45 in the Cork marathon so stuck religiously to their pace all the way & we finished within a sec of each other

After the hellish weather at the Conn Ultra the previous Sunday, I had a smile on my face all the way!

hot buttered scones

Great day for it, even with a bit of frost on the car when I woke up in the morning. By God did those few rolling bits at the end feel like mountains though! Ran the 25k in 1:50:32 - I found the last few miles very tough and was glad to have banked some time over the flattest part of the course and 17 minutes faster than last year. Strava tells me I PB'd my half marathon time as well - so I'll take that as a goal for the Cork Half in June. Very happy with how the day went. The only pity is my grimacing psycho face in the race photos :-). I really enjoy this course and some of the views over the harbour were amazing yesterday. The finish was definitely much better than last year. I have the calendar marked for next year already.