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Art O'Neill Challenge 2014

RayCun · 2013-12-30 13:30:03

55km from Dublin Castle to Glenmalure, leaving at midnight and follows Art O Neill and Red Hugh O Donnell's escape route in 1592 http://www.artoneillchallenge.ie/ Previous threads 2009 2011 2012 2013

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55km from Dublin Castle to Glenmalure, leaving at midnight and follows Art O Neill and Red Hugh O Donnell's escape route in 1592

http://www.artoneillchallenge.ie/

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#2 02-01-2014 12:44pm
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lots of discussion of this year's event on Outdoor Pursuits
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057042596

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#3 03-01-2014 3:46pm
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How is everyone fixed?

For the craic, the long term forecast for Dublin and Wicklow is for decent weather, no rain during the event, moderate wind. Looks to be dry from Monday evening onwards which might good for river crossings easier.

http://www.yr.no/place/Ireland/Leinster/wicklow/long.html

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#4 05-01-2014 11:05pm
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nerraw1111 wrote: »

How is everyone fixed?

For the craic, the long term forecast for Dublin and Wicklow is for decent weather, no rain during the event, moderate wind. Looks to be dry from Monday evening onwards which might good for river crossings easier.

Looking forward to it now, fingers crossed for the weather on the night. Ran the Clonakilty marathon in Dec so should a bit better prepared this year.

Best of luck to everyone for next Sat!

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#5 12-01-2014 6:20pm
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Talking about this now on Radio 1 Sunday Sports show

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#6 12-01-2014 9:21pm
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The RTE Report (audio)

https://soundcloud.com/user590094777/art-oneill-2014?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=facebook

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#7 12-01-2014 10:43pm
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Superb event.

Really good interview on radio one earlier. Questions beyond the "you must be mad."

Love the course. It's full on for the whole race.

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#8 12-01-2014 10:47pm
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nerraw1111 wrote: »

How is everyone fixed?

For the craic, the long term forecast for Dublin and Wicklow is for decent weather, no rain during the event, moderate wind. Looks to be dry from Monday evening onwards which might good for river crossings easier.

ok, was thinking of doing this next year until I saw this ^,are we talking proper rivers or does the flow depend on the recent weather?

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#9 12-01-2014 10:53pm
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99% of the time you can simply hop onto a stone or two and you're across the two rivers in question.

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#10 13-01-2014 12:39pm
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Trek & Hybrid start. Note the guy dragging the tyre in the trek!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nbSktyTnNg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eTyKbX8X8g

Hopefully that's not the end of it as an organised event as we were told at the start

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