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Corona Virus and events

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    #812
    sideswipe
    Registered Users Posts: 2,431 ✭✭✭sideswipe


    I take it that this means a lot of Parkruns could be back?


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    #813
    average_runner
    Registered Users Posts: 12,851 ✭✭✭✭average_runner


    sideswipe wrote: »
    I take it that this means a lot of Parkruns could be back?

    Not sure as they mention distancing also. Will avoid races for july anyhow


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    #814
    robinph
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,092 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    sideswipe wrote: »
    I take it that this means a lot of Parkruns could be back?

    Would need a limit of more than a couple of hundred for parkrun as there are enough events bigger than that in Ireland and they won't bring it back until there is no social distancing requirements in the country under parkruns current policy. I'd also now expect parkrun to wait until NZ has been going for several weeks even if Ireland was for some reason to lift all restrictions immediately.

    Don't get your hopes up just yet.


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    #815
    average_runner
    Registered Users Posts: 12,851 ✭✭✭✭average_runner


    robinph wrote: »
    Would need a limit of more than a couple of hundred for parkrun as there are enough events bigger than that in Ireland and they won't bring it back until there is no social distancing requirements in the country under parkruns current policy. I'd also now expect parkrun to wait until NZ has been going for several weeks even if Ireland was for some reason to lift all restrictions immediately.

    Don't get your hopes up just yet.

    But I would say it's time to focus the training more. Races in sept for sure


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    #816
    pc11
    Registered Users Posts: 975 ✭✭✭pc11


    RacoonQueen wrote: »
    Feck. Has anyone been doing interval sessions/tempo runs? :pac:

    You may jest, but as a frontline worker doing some 24 hour shifts and working full-time all along, I've been training 5-6 days per week including tempos and timetrials all through this. And I'm very much a mid-pack runner.

    I'd have very little sympathy for people 'stuck' at home who haven't! :D


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    #817
    echancrure
    Registered Users Posts: 606 ✭✭✭echancrure


    pc11 wrote: »
    I'd have very little sympathy for people 'stuck' at home who haven't! :D

    It is great that you have been to continue your training during this period, but perhaps judging others who live in different circumstances is not so wise.

    Being genuinely stuck at home is not a comfortable situation, it is tough on your mental, may raise anxiety and worries levels.

    One thing we know for training is that routine is good: being furloughed, working from home, having to look after children at home or caring for others are just some examples of situations that are not easy to deal with.

    We all need more sympathy at this time not less.


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    #818
    Snodge
    Registered Users Posts: 87 ✭✭Snodge


    Does anyone have handy information about a race in mondello next week? Overheard someone talking about it while out running the other day


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    #819
    Dudda
    Registered Users Posts: 1,541 ✭✭✭Dudda


    Snodge wrote: »
    Does anyone have handy information about a race in mondello next week? Overheard someone talking about it while out running the other day

    Thread on it here
    https://touch.boards.ie/thread/2058087196/1/


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    #820
    robinph
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,092 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    pc11 wrote: »
    You may jest, but as a frontline worker doing some 24 hour shifts and working full-time all along, I've been training 5-6 days per week including tempos and timetrials all through this. And I'm very much a mid-pack runner.

    I'd have very little sympathy for people 'stuck' at home who haven't! :D

    So basically life has been exactly the same as normal for the last few months then, which is nice.


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    #821
    opus
    Registered Users Posts: 4,988 ✭✭✭opus


    Will be interested to see what happens with the Cork city 10 mile race scheduled for Aug 22nd, attracted over 1k participants last year. Announcement coming at the end of the month.

    IMG_20200619_190308_776-1024x833.jpg


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    #822
    Guill
    Registered Users Posts: 3,331 ✭✭✭Guill


    Kilbeggan 10 mile is on.


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    #823
    Sunny Dayz
    Registered Users Posts: 5,328 ✭✭✭Sunny Dayz


    Guill wrote: »
    Kilbeggan 10 mile is on.

    A limit of 500 participants. Heard from someone involved in the event that the entries have been flying in.


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    #824
    Guill
    Registered Users Posts: 3,331 ✭✭✭Guill


    I signed up, only out the road from me. Great to have a target again :D


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    #825
    sideshowbob321
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    The rescheduled Spring Manchester Marathon - now October 11th. Not yet cancelled with final decision July 17th !! Anyone still signed up ? Can't go ahead can it ??


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    #826
    Unthought Known
    Registered Users Posts: 850 ✭✭✭Unthought Known


    sideshowbob321 wrote: »
    The rescheduled Spring Manchester Marathon - now October 11th. Not yet cancelled with final decision July 17th !! Anyone still signed up ? Can't go ahead can it ??

    I'm signed up. I reckon they're waiting to see what London does.
    Hard to know what will happen really. Easing of restrictions seems to have accelerated here and in the UK lately so who knows what will be in place come October.

    Just seen on this post that the Hamburg marathon is now going ahead in September. 10,000 runners plus 4,000 for the half so close enough to Manchester in size. Article says marathon will have a 2 hour starting window and they'll start in batches of 1,000.


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    #827
    opus
    Registered Users Posts: 4,988 ✭✭✭opus


    On the radio just now, the NY marathon is cancelled.


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    #828
    event
    Registered Users Posts: 16,034 ✭✭✭✭event


    Berlin gone too


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    #829
    rainbow kirby
    Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 26,928 Mod ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    sideshowbob321 wrote: »
    The rescheduled Spring Manchester Marathon - now October 11th. Not yet cancelled with final decision July 17th !! Anyone still signed up ? Can't go ahead can it ??

    Would be a miracle if it did tbh! The UK is a disaster Covid-wise.


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    #830
    Sacksian
    Registered Users Posts: 1,895 ✭✭✭Sacksian


    Via Cathal Dennehy on Twitter

    22nd/23rd August - National Senior T&F - Morton

    6th September - National Masters T&F - Morton


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    #831
    Glencarraig
    Registered Users Posts: 1,454 ✭✭✭Glencarraig


    opus wrote: »
    On the radio just now, the NY marathon is cancelled.

    Thats my year totally f****d now, was to run Paris last April and NY in November.


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    #832
    OOnegative
    Registered Users Posts: 4,834 ✭✭✭OOnegative


    All sports possible in The Netherlands from 1st of July, not sure what it’s means for Amsterdam & Rotterdam Marathons but it can only be positive.


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    #833
    pc11
    Registered Users Posts: 975 ✭✭✭pc11


    robinph wrote: »
    So basically life has been exactly the same as normal for the last few months then, which is nice.

    Yeah, normal. Except for that global pandemic thing, utter chaos in hospitals, people dying, my colleagues being out sick, a complete revolution in how we deliver healthcare, loss of cancer screening and other services and fear of getting ill every time I walk in the hospital.

    Apart from that, totally normal, yeah.


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    #834
    Chivito550
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    NI Masters the day before National Masters. Shocking scheduling.


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    #835
    Ceepo
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    Chivito550 wrote: »
    NI Masters the day before National Masters. Shocking scheduling.

    At least they'll have some track championship in NI and Leinster.
    Munster on the other hand.....


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    #836
    Seannew1
    Registered Users Posts: 979 ✭✭✭Seannew1


    Ceepo wrote: »
    At least they'll have some track championship in NI and Leinster.
    Munster on the other hand.....

    I have a sneaky suspicion Munster Athletics will reverse that decision.


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    #837
    Ceepo
    Registered Users Posts: 2,548 ✭✭✭Ceepo


    Seannew1 wrote: »
    I have a sneaky suspicion Munster Athletics will reverse that decision.

    Hopefully you're right.


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    #838
    robinph
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,092 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    pc11 wrote: »
    You may jest, but as a frontline worker doing some 24 hour shifts and working full-time all along, I've been training 5-6 days per week including tempos and timetrials all through this. And I'm very much a mid-pack runner.

    I'd have very little sympathy for people 'stuck' at home who haven't! :D
    pc11 wrote: »
    Yeah, normal. Except for that global pandemic thing, utter chaos in hospitals, people dying, my colleagues being out sick, a complete revolution in how we deliver healthcare, loss of cancer screening and other services and fear of getting ill every time I walk in the hospital.

    Apart from that, totally normal, yeah.

    What do you think the rest of us have been dealing with in our lives and jobs? It may be that not all heroes wear capes, but no heroes tell the people they are saving that their problems are insignificant and to just get over it.

    If you want to be praised then don't the rest of us we're **** at life. It doesn't help in the slightest. :mad:


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    #839
    Seannew1
    Registered Users Posts: 979 ✭✭✭Seannew1


    Ceepo wrote: »
    Hopefully you're right.

    Unless cases rise considerably and I really really hope that doesn't happen, then I can't see any reason why it won't. Significant too that athletic's Ireland have put out detailed protocols for road racing.


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    #840
    pc11
    Registered Users Posts: 975 ✭✭✭pc11


    robinph wrote: »
    What do you think the rest of us have been dealing with in our lives and jobs? It may be that not all heroes wear capes, but no heroes tell the people they are saving that their problems are insignificant and to just get over it.

    If you want to be praised then don't the rest of us we're **** at life. It doesn't help in the slightest. :mad:

    Wow, that was originally a lighthearted jokey thread. I had seen some of the vicious OTT rows elsewhere by people who had too much time on their hands and shook my head. I have no time for that so I'm out of this.
    Cheers.


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    #841
    Peterx
    Registered Users Posts: 2,116 ✭✭✭Peterx


    OOnegative wrote: »
    All sports possible in The Netherlands from 1st of July, not sure what it’s means for Amsterdam & Rotterdam Marathons but it can only be positive.

    Quite possibly!


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