Water Water Everywhere, but no drinking fountains

PhoenixParker

So I'm reaching the point, and the weather is reaching the point, where drinking some water on a long run is advisable.

What equipment and strategy does everyone use?

normal water bottle, running water bottle, belts, stopping in a shop, dropping off a bottle, grabbing something out of the car . . .

Are there any belts/bottles that are better than others?
If you drop a bottle off somewhere, where do you hide it?

Are there any shops convenient to the gates in the Phoenix Park?
I kinda went looking today but didn't see anything.
(And are there any water fountains anywhere?)

RayCun

PhoenixParker wrote: »

Are there any shops convenient to the gates in the Phoenix Park?
I kinda went looking today but didn't see anything.

Yes, at the gate where North Road/Infirmary Road/North Circular Road meet (where the marathon enters the park) there's a shop, that's where I bought all my water on my LSRs last year...

tunney

fuel belt revenge series. Got a three bolt version. Have tried alot over the years and this is the only one worth a damn.

PhoenixParker

RayCun wrote: »

Yes, at the gate where North Road/Infirmary Road/North Circular Road meet (where the marathon enters the park) there's a shop, that's where I bought all my water on my LSRs last year...

Had forgotten about that one.
The Londis on Parkgate street is too much "on the way home" for me, and if I head there I won't head back into the park. I can definitely work out a 5k loop that leads to the one at the top of Infirmary road, and there'd be a lovely downhill afterwards.

Are there any over towards Castleknock or Chapelizod?

RacoonQueen

PhoenixParker wrote: »

Are there any over towards Castleknock or Chapelizod?

As you go up the hill on the upper glen road, theres a pedestrian gate to your left. Small newsagents about 100m outside that gate and a spar across the road from that.

PhoenixParker

tunney wrote: »

fuel belt revenge series. Got a three bolt version. Have tried alot over the years and this is the only one worth a damn.

Thanks, I'll keep an eye out for them next time I'm in a gear shop and see how it fits.
What is it you like about it/didn't like about the others?

RacoonQueen wrote: »

As you go up the hill on the upper glen road, theres a pedestrian gate to your left. Small newsagents about 100m outside that gate and a spar across the road from that.

Found it.
That looks perfect for a midwayish stop off.

mloc123

I bought a bottle of water and a 99 from the ice cream van in the park on Saturday, parked in the pope cross car park

RacoonQueen

PhoenixParker wrote: »

Found it.
That looks perfect for a midwayish stop off.

Thats the one, you get to run up a hill when you go back into the park. Punishment for your mini rest while buying your water!

PhoenixParker

mloc123 wrote: »

I bought a bottle of water and a 99 from the ice cream van in the park on Saturday, parked in the pope cross car park

Was that a van in the papal cross car park?
I thought I could see one in there but I knew there was definitely one beside the zoo so I opted for that instead. Then the fizzy orange was too tempting. Then I realised I couldn't run with the fizzy orange. So I walked home.

ecoli

Polo grounds there is a water tap/fountain (cant remember which)

RacoonQueen

The park used to have these, pretty sure none of them are around anymore...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cldulay/1411184056/

Edit: Though this one suggests different, maybe someone can email him and see where this mythical creature resides

http://www.flickr.com/photos/10413717@N08/5837114611/in/photostream/

PhoenixParker

Judging from the monument in the background, that's in the People's gardens in the park.
I think it may still be there, I'll be near enough later and I'll have a look for it and the one in the Polo grounds.

Sandwell

If I'm doing a long run in the Park I'll park on Khyber Road and leave a couple of water bottles in the car. It's a central enough point to loop back to for a drink every few miles or so.

nomadic

RacoonQueen wrote: »

As you go up the hill on the upper glen road, theres a pedestrian gate to your left. Small newsagents about 100m outside that gate and a spar across the road from that.

I'd avoid the spar, the water's not very nice. A very nice chap works in the newsagents at the weekends who's totally understandable when you hand him a sweaty note of fire money at him in a hurry.