Carton House Trail Run 28.07.16

Lo_La

I just saw this advertised, a 6k trail run in Carton House on Thurs 28th July @ 8pm, is this a new race or has anyone done it before? Just wondering what the route is like. Carton House is lovely so it should be a nice run

fletch

Not sure what the route is yet. It's a new race organised by Dunboyne AC...here's a link to the registration page.

TommyGrealy

Going on their facebook page http://www.facebook.com/cartontrailrace - they had initially organised it for september last year but it didnt happen for some reason. Now it's scheduled for 28th July. I put a post on their FB page asking about the route, not sure if I'll get a reply.

chris85

I would imagine its on the 6.5km route walking trail on the grounds. See link below.

http://www.cartonhouse.com/files/hotel/downloads/CH-walking-brochure-v10.pdf

Firedance

TommyGrealy wrote: »

Going on their facebook page http://www.facebook.com/cartontrailrace - they had initially organised it for september last year but it didnt happen for some reason. Now it's scheduled for 28th July. I put a post on their FB page asking about the route, not sure if I'll get a reply.

chris85 wrote: »

I would imagine its on the 6.5km route walking trail on the grounds. See link below.

http://www.cartonhouse.com/files/hotel/downloads/CH-walking-brochure-v10.pdf

We'll try and get the route up here in the next day or two guys.

Firedance

Course Map as promised

Lo_La

Firedance wrote: »

Course Map as promised

Thanks looks great looking forward to it!

TommyGrealy

Thanks for that Firedance

TommyGrealy

chris85 wrote: »

I would imagine its on the 6.5km route walking trail on the grounds. See link below.

http://www.cartonhouse.com/files/hotel/downloads/CH-walking-brochure-v10.pdf

You were correct

Mulberry

TommyGrealy wrote: »

Going on their facebook page http://www.facebook.com/cartontrailrace - they had initially organised it for september last year but it didnt happen for some reason. Now it's scheduled for 28th July. I put a post on their FB page asking about the route, not sure if I'll get a reply.

Hi Tommy
That darn visitor post box on the side of the Facebook page has caught me out again - I get an alert when people comment on our posts but not when people make 'visitor posts' on the page so apologies for that! :rolleyes:

I see Firedance has posted the map - thanks FD!

Any other questions, give me a shout - I'll be keeping a closer eye on that side panel from now on

TommyGrealy

Hi! Thanks for that. I just went out to try out the route there (see my track here ) and got a bit lost at the part which is called the "river meadow" on the map. There didnt seem to be a trail along the river bank at that part as suggested by the map. So I cut across the meadow of long grass to another trail through the woods but that was wrong too!. The yellow arrows that mark out the walking trail are helpful up until that point. Might try again next week.

Mulberry wrote: »

Hi Tommy
That darn visitor post box on the side of the Facebook page has caught me out again - I get an alert when people comment on our posts but not when people make 'visitor posts' on the page so apologies for that! :rolleyes:

I see Firedance has posted the map - thanks FD!

Any other questions, give me a shout - I'll be keeping a closer eye on that side panel from now on

Mulberry

TommyGrealy wrote: »

Hi! Thanks for that. I just went out to try out the route there (see my track here ) and got a bit lost at the part which is called the "river meadow" on the map. There didnt seem to be a trail along the river bank at that part as suggested by the map. So I cut across the meadow of long grass to another trail through the woods but that was wrong too!. The yellow arrows that mark out the walking trail are helpful up until that point. Might try again next week.

Can't believe you've just been out to run it! (Lucky you, lovely day for a lunchtime trail run).
OK, so I can tell you there will be a trail there on the day! And in the meantime I will pass your message along to the person who is in charge of the trail so he's aware of that confusion point on the course.
Thanks for the feedback!

JMSE

Hey Mulbz, I see on Athletics Ireland they are fixturing this in their Runzone as a 5k, but everyone from Baltimore to Bethlehem knows its a 6k dont we?........

On the upside though, this race is the ONLY one with a link to 'online entry' from the AI site, so kudos where its due...........

Mulberry

JMSE wrote: »

Hey Mulbz, I see on Athletics Ireland they are fixturing this in their Runzone as a 5k, but everyone from Baltimore to Bethlehem knows its a 6k dont we?........

On the upside though, this race is the ONLY one with a link to 'online entry' from the AI site, so kudos where its due...........

Well spotted JMSE, I've asked them to change it as yes, it is indeed 6K.

Firedance

Looking forward to this, my first race since March (even tho I won't strictly be racing...!) Promises to be a great evening regardless

fletch

Signed up myself....really looking forward to it

fletch

Gentle reminder that this is on this evening...

JMSE

fletch wrote: »

Gentle reminder that this is on this evening...

I'm in

Firedance

JMSE wrote: »

I'm in

race ya :pac:

Firedance

You sign up here until midday today, or you can register at Carton this evening

JMSE

Carton is that place between Leixlip and maynooth?? ðŸ˜ðŸ˜

fletch

JMSE wrote: »

Carton is that place between Leixlip and maynooth?? ðŸ˜ðŸ˜

Yeh it's here

gman127

Anybody an idea if there is a bag drop area tonight and also where do we collect our numbers? Thanks

Firedance

I'm not 100% certain but looking at the map the start/finish area is beside the car park so I'd imagine number collection will be right there too. I doubt there's a bag drop but hopefully we won't be to far from our cars at the finish - hope the rain stays away now!

fletch

I just checked with the organisers and as Firedance said, number collection will be at a tent near the start finish line (beside the bridge across the river).
I wouldn't really expect a bag drop but I'm sure you could leave some stuff with a supporter. It's a fairly safe location so I can't see a bag of dry gear up against a tree going missing either

gman127

Thanks for the replies - looking forward to it now should be fun my first trail race. Any ideas if headphones are a no go?

fletch

gman127 wrote: »

Thanks for the replies - looking forward to it now should be fun my first trail race. Any ideas if headphones are a no go?

I don't think they're specifically not allowed but why would you....it's only 6ks so will be over quickly, some of the paths are narrow so you would need to be able to hear if someone is coming up behind you to pass you...and why not just enjoy the atmosphere and scenery instead

gman127

I am just use to running with headphones so wanted to check if they were allowed or not - and its 'only 6k' to some people - 6k is a good distance to others! Anyway thanks for the reply

fletch

gman127 wrote: »

I am just use to running with headphones so wanted to check if they were allowed or not - and its 'only 6k' to some people - 6k is a good distance to others! Anyway thanks for the reply

Ha sorry if that came across wrong/elitist, that wasn't my intention(and I'm certainly not an elite ha)...I actually tend to use earphones while out training on my own but for some reason on a trail run, I wouldn't even consider using them. Anyway, best of luck this evening, its a lovely route.

tang1

gman127 wrote: »

I am just use to running with headphones so wanted to check if they were allowed or not - and its 'only 6k' to some people - 6k is a good distance to others! Anyway thanks for the reply

Might be golfers out shouting 'four' also so you may not hear them, then again I'd say the course is off limits to golfers while the race is taking place?

Sam Hain

I had a run during the week on half of the race route and back. It is very narrow, its not great underfoot, so I'd imagine it will be very difficult to choose good ground with a lot of other runners let alone avoid the intermittent dog ****s but it is a trail run after all . As for headphones, I never run without them but this could be the time I turn the music down low because of the nature of the route. And as for golfers, it would need to be a really terrible shot to be a danger to anyone on the majority of the route. Happy trailblazing.

JMSE

Results now on 'my run results'

fletch

http://www.myrunresults.com/events/carton_house_6k_trail_run/1806/results

fletch

Can see this one being a popular run on the race calendar...made a nice change from road races and nice n close to Dublin too....excellent spread after and all round great atmosphere in a beautiful setting.

JMSE

Agree with you fletch , beautiful setting for an event. Challenging course, this isn't your average run around donadea but there's some quite fast sections too, exciting stuff. One for the 2017 calendar.

Firedance

Have to say, I was very proud to be a dunboyne ac member yesterday, a super race organized very well by my clubmates and a great post race spread, I hope everyone enjoyed it - I'm off to look for more trail races now

Lo_La

Firedance wrote: »

Have to say, I was very proud to be a dunboyne ac member yesterday, a super race organized very well by my clubmates and a great post race spread, I hope everyone enjoyed it - I'm off to look for more trail races now

Great race, really well organised well done Dunboyne AC, hopefully it will become at least a yearly event! Nice change from road races, I would also love to find similar keep us posted if there are any coming up

fletch

Firedance wrote: »

Have to say, I was very proud to be a dunboyne ac member yesterday, a super race organized very well by my clubmates and a great post race spread, I hope everyone enjoyed it - I'm off to look for more trail races now

Slippery slope

Sam Hain

It was a very good run, the course was well prepared compared to what I ran on 3 days prior. A great job was done on widening some sections. Challenging but enjoyable course and happy enough with my time. Nearly went on my ear in the muddy section, went on a bit of a slide but all part of the fun. Congrats to everyone involved in the organisation and to everyone who competed. I believe they even ran out of race numbers at registration.

JMSE

My first off-road race in oh 30 years. Defo faster now than I was doin cross country for coolmine in the 80s !!

I loved the various wildlife there - lots of peculiar club-wielding characters hiding in the long grass, looks serious

Ceekay

Some video footage from last night! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zruyZ3Z13Hc&edit=vd

Firedance

Ceekay wrote: »

Some video footage from last night! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zruyZ3Z13Hc&edit=vd

the settings seem to be private

Ceekay

Firedance wrote: »

the settings seem to be private

Sorry...should be ok now!

Firedance

Ceekay wrote: »

Sorry...should be ok now!

brilliant! thanks so much