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Donore Harriers Jingle Bells 5K 2013
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16-10-2013 3:20pm#1
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Last year's route was roughly as follows:-
Start on the Acres Road beside the soccer pitches. Head for Chesterfield Avenue and turn left at the Phoenix roundabout, then left at Mountjoy roundabout onto the Ordnance Survey road. Continue straight through the junction with a long downhill stretch, finishing with a short little rise as you approach the finish line, which IIRC is at the bottom of the steps up to the Cheshire Home. Very much downhill overall, and as others have mentioned, great PB potential
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RacoonQueen wrote: »A mug.
Any post race cake requests kids?
Try see if you can muster up a yuletide log
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It was my first race too, a few years ago...
There are toilets in the Donore clubhouse, but none near the race start, and it is about 15/20 minutes walk from the clubhouse to the start line
It could be cold waiting around at the start line. If you bring a bag, you can wear warm clothes to a few minutes before the start, then take them off and put them in a bag. There's a van at the start line that will bring the bags around to the finish area.
Look around you at the start, and make sure you're not starting too close to the front. If the people around you are all skin and gristle, and wearing two handkerchiefs worth of clothing, you're probably too close to the start. If the people around you are wearing rain coats etc, they're going to be walking, so you're too close to the back.
Don't get carried away by the excitement of the start and go too fast. Take it easy at the start, and plan to get a bit faster all the way around.
Most of all, enjoy it 0 -
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fruit salad wrote: »Signed up! First 5k race...looking forward to it! Do alot of people dress up in Christmassy gear for this or are the majority in the usual running gear?
Most people will do it in running gear. Santa, Mrs Claus, Elf suits etc also allowed 0 -
Thanks RayCun and Ososlo, some great advice there. Obviously I am terrified about coming last, at the minute I'm doing 4K in 32 minutes (Very slow). But I have to pace myself or I burn out.:(
I reckon its better to run it all as slow as a god's horse rather than fly for the first Km and then have to walk the rest! I'm doing it with my bestie who started running with me so we both in the same boat. At least it'll be joint last lol
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MissyMooki wrote: »Thanks RayCun and Ososlo, some great advice there. Obviously I am terrified about coming last, at the minute I'm doing 4K in 32 minutes (Very slow). But I have to pace myself or I burn out.:(
I reckon its better to run it all as slow as a god's horse rather than fly for the first Km and then have to walk the rest! I'm doing it with my bestie who started running with me so we both in the same boat. At least it'll be joint last lol
Just seen your location, get yourself down to Dunleer AC and we'll get you into training! 0 -
It was my first race too, a few years ago...
There are toilets in the Donore clubhouse, but none near the race start, and it is about 15/20 minutes walk from the clubhouse to the start line
It could be cold waiting around at the start line. If you bring a bag, you can wear warm clothes to a few minutes before the start, then take them off and put them in a bag. There's a van at the start line that will bring the bags around to the finish area.
Look around you at the start, and make sure you're not starting too close to the front. If the people around you are all skin and gristle, and wearing two handkerchiefs worth of clothing, you're probably too close to the start. If the people around you are wearing rain coats etc, they're going to be walking, so you're too close to the back.
Don't get carried away by the excitement of the start and go too fast. Take it easy at the start, and plan to get a bit faster all the way around.
Most of all, enjoy itthis was my first race also 2 years ago when I was on week 7 of c25k so had never run more than about 3k in one go at that stage, if even that. My main concern was being able to get around in one piece and not to come last which I did easily enough on the day.
Advice: get there in plenty of time so you can use the loo (there will be huge queues but plenty of bushes/trees in the park if you don't want to queue!). I'd get there an hour in advance or maybe a bit less if you know the park well.
When I did it there was a sub25 min section. I hadn't seen the sign for sub25 and went into that section by accident. Complete rookie mistake and a cardinal sin amongst runners. thankfully I realised my mistake in enough time to get outa there and position myself near the back but not at the back. This is a great race for your first race as there's a huge field of runners so there'll be loads of runners/walkers behind you, so you know you won't come last. That was my BIG FEAR:D
Best of luck!Just seen your location, get yourself down to Dunleer AC and we'll get you into training! Baby Steps! 0 -
RacoonQueen wrote: »A mug.
Any post race cake requests kids?
I'm very partial to your chocolate biscuit cake:) but as pconn says.... any cake will do, just lots of it!:D Really looking forward to this race especially now that I know RQ is making cake:)0 -
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