Rock & Road Kinvara 2014 - Half & 10k

stampydmonkey

Couldn't see a thread for this.

Anyone running this tomorrow? Doing the half marathon. The weathers not supposed to be great but looking forward to it. Heard it's sold too so should be busy.

Traffic can be mental beforehand and the parking is a bit out so give yourself plenty of time.

Duanington

I'm running this one Stampydmonkey (10k)- once we don't have gales I'll be happy enough !

Its sold out alright, a couple of pals of mine tried to register last night with no joy

Mr Freeze

Doing the half.

It falls perfectly in our Marathon plan for Limerick in May, so just gonna jump into the 1:40 pace group.

Hopefully the weather is ok, I hate having to layer up for a race.

ciaranmac

It'll be my first ever 10k.

stampydmonkey

So how'd ye find it? Was grossly over layered and suffered from mile 8 on. Lost the 1:40 pacers round mile 9 and struggled back for 1:44 on my watch.. Same time as last year but thought id knock something off it. Anyhow well organised and lovely tee shirt too.

Mr Freeze

Thought it was a fairly flawless setup by the organisers, hats off to them, well done.

Can't believe the weather was so good, I had to ditch a layer in the tea tent before the race, as I was roasting after warming up.

Stuck with the 1:40 pacers till 12 miles, and picked up the pace a bit then to get under 1:40, the pacers were class, the pace was bang on the whole way around, that was my first experience running in a pace group, and thought it was great.

Foxychick

Ya thought it was extremely well organised only complaint I have is no bananas left or food in tent for late finishers. While a gang of about 20 of us who finished later than most were going in for tea/coffee all trays of biscuits etc were being finished off by children and a few people who were dressed in normal clothes (apologies if they were competitors who finished very early and had showers and had time to put makeup and then got food) Just was disappointing after doing half marathon not a thing to eat which I wouldn't mind as much if it was the people who paid the entry fees who ate it all. (winge over)

Amazing day for running like the two posters above I had too many layers on, route really good condition very well signposted, water stations perfect locations, start of race had no stress involved smoothly run event.

Overall brilliantly organized, only down point was my time was crap got a really bad stitch early on and paid dearly for it:(

Any idea when results will be put up?

martyboy48

Results are up on precision timing website( sorry, on phone, can't link).

Enjoyed it myself, well organised event.. Weather spot on. Will be back..

Foxychick

martyboy48 wrote: »

Results are up on precision timing website( sorry, on phone, can't link).

Enjoyed it myself, well organised event.. Weather spot on. Will be back..

Cool thanks

BeepBeep67

Great win by Abhainn today, sets him up nicely for London.

rok

Very well organised and marshaled.
Weather was perfect.
Bananas and tea at the end were great but other food could be improved

Just before the finish line there was a steel Banner that looked like the finish line.
I saw loads of people that stopped there and then had to go again when the crowd would point out the correct finish line to them.
Suppose they should have known better, watched it for the chip mat, but still twas confusing for them.

Abhainn

BeepBeep67 wrote: »

Great win by Abhainn today, sets him up nicely for London.

My 3rd time at Kinvara. Great event. Great buzz around the start. Lovely (not easy) half marathon route. Nice win and bagged a PB. A good day

Duanington

2nd time running Kinvara and it won't be the last, well organised, great atmosphere and a beautiful part of the world.

Don Beezie

Hey all, great day alright. Very well organised with no fuss, just turn up and run. Ran the 10k and Managed to clock a decent time considering I was out until 2am the night before so delighted with that! Any idea where we can see pics from the day?

stampydmonkey

Don Beezie wrote: »

Any idea where we can see pics from the day?

they usually have loads on Facebook and also on the official website after a few days

Duanington

My brother is a photographer and took quite a few shots on the day.

Looking at the shots, first half is the start of the HM and the rest are the finishing line ( 32-50 minutes 10k I would guess).

http://www.paulduanephotography.ie/race/kinvara.html

ciaranmac

Did the 10 in 67:03 which I was happy enough with. I hadn't run the distance in training in nearly a year, so I was just glad to finish. Though I did have to walk some of it

Really well put together event, couldn't fault the organisation or stewarding, and the cuppa and banana afterwards really hit the spot

Don Beezie

Thanks for that, he snapped myself and my brother crossing the line looking worse for wear!