Run in the Dark 2015 - Cork, Dublin, Belfast - 5k or 10k - November 11th

Pink11

Just wanted to warn anybody who plans on doing this to sign up as soon as you're sure you want to do it. Last year it sold out really quickly and very early. I was on the waiting list for weeks and still didn't get a spot. I registered back in Feburary this year. Taking no chances

I'ts for a very good cause and anyone who is a fan of mid week races will love this. This year they announced that every entrant gets a free tech top (hear that aquinn!?). This is the first year we'll get a tee.

This event is on Thursday 11th November, 2015 in Cork, Dublin & Belfast.

Link: http://www.runinthedark.org/

Sign up: http://www.runinthedark.org/#where-section

Has anyone signed up for it yet? Did you enjoy it last year?

heebusjeebus

I didnt enjoy it last year as I spent the first KM or two trying to get around walkers. It was a clusterf**k at the start line of the Dublin event.

Pink11

Oh I'm treating it as a fun run. Nothing serious. It's for a good cause and a 10k mid week is always good for me.

Run and Jump

Based on the new course map on the website, the Dublin 10K route is much improved compared to last year's - no lap of Ringsend Park with its tight, slippery corners. And the merge with the back of the 5K field comes much later in the race, almost at the finish line.

The Belfast route is TOUGH! Up the hill of Stormont - once for the 5K and twice for the 10K!

Auntie Matter

I swore I was never again doing Run In The Dark after last year. I lost count of how many walkers I nearly tripped over in the first 2K, some of the unlit streets were downright dangerous and the 5K course wasn't measured properly.

However, the course for this year looks a lot better, there's a long sleeve top for early entries and there aren't many other races in November that would suit me. So I think I might be tempted!

Pink11

I'm dying to see the new long sleeve tech top we'll get this one.

Pink11

Calling all tech top collectors. Anyone who joins before August 31st gets a free long sleeve tech top!

Auntie Matter

Pink11 wrote: »

Calling all tech top collectors. Anyone who joins before August 31st gets a free long sleeve tech top!

I've succumbed to the pressure of the RITD emails and signed up already. It was good fun last year despite all the organisational glitches.

Pink11

Auntie Matter wrote: »

I've succumbed to the pressure of the RITD emails and signed up already. It was good fun last year despite all the organisational glitches.

It's my post marathon fun run with a few friends. It'll be fun and it's for a good cause sure!

Aisling(",)

I did the great pink run yesterday and signed up for this today.
Going to try make 10km a bit less painful by then

Yay for the free t-shirt

Auntie Matter

Collected my race pack today in Lifestyle Sports in Mary St.

If you entered early enough to get a tech top, be warned that the tops have been left out of some of the race packs. They sorted it out for me there and then but I suspect if there are a lot of packs without tops they'll run out of spare ones by Tuesday.

Top is long sleeved, deep blue with the RiTD logo and Lifestyle logo printed with reflective ink. Quality doesn't look that great but I've seen worse.

JohnDozer

Pop up event in Limerick too

jasonb

I signed up for the 5k one a couple of weeks ago, so the Dublin event at least hadn't sold out by then. After I signed up for it I read lots of bad reports about last year's race, but as people have commented here, some of the issues seem to have been addressed with the new course etc.

This is my first race since I start running again (after a 9 year break) and it'll be my fifth run in total. Just decided to do a race instead of 5k on my own to see what it's like and to run in the City at night. So I'm looking forward to it!

J.

KielyUnusual

I've signed up for this with a few people from work. Long time since I've ran a 5k on the road so interested to see how it goes.

My big concern with these city centre races is the course length. So often, I've seen them go wrong. You can get it officially measured and all that but you still have to lay out the course correctly on the evening. From stewarding at the Grant Thornton, I know there is very little time between road closures and the race start to get everything laid out so people need to know what they are doing. Hopefully they get it right on the night. Only one turnaround point so if they get this and the start/finish right then there shouldn't be any issues.

Auntie Matter

Auntie Matter wrote: »

Collected my race pack today in Lifestyle Sports in Mary St.

If you entered early enough to get a tech top, be warned that the tops have been left out of some of the race packs. They sorted it out for me there and then but I suspect if there are a lot of packs without tops they'll run out of spare ones by Tuesday.

Top is long sleeved, deep blue with the RiTD logo and Lifestyle logo printed with reflective ink. Quality doesn't look that great but I've seen worse.

Also had the same issue, despite registering very early on, spent 15m trying and eventually getting the top.
I think they entered the date in backwards.

raddo

My wife and I both registered for this in Cork, but somehow we got 2 large tech tops.
I rang the organisers but was told that they couldn't help as she was registered for large and there wasn't enough spares.
So just chancing my arm and wondering if there is anyone that would like to swap a Medium Tech Top for a Large one??

Sunny Dayz

My local town is having a pop up Run in the Dark. Tempted to enter but would only be able to do the 5km as I'm working late all week and will only finish work at 7 on Wednesday evening. But just wondering does anyone else find the price for the pop up event a little bit steep at €25? It's not chip timed, you get a Run in the Dark buff (whatever that is) and a flashing armband, no technical t-shirt like the main events, and a bottle of water and a snack at the end. I know Darkness into Light is about the same price but you get a tshirt, a little candle light and some spread put on afterwards.
On the plus side, Run in the Dark is on a route I would like to get a run on. But just not sure I can hand over €50 for myself and the son to run 5k...

jasonb

Just got an email from RITD saying there's going to be 9,000 people at the Dublin event tomorrow. That's a lot bigger than I thought.

Also, I'm a little confused, does everyone get a t-shirt, or just the people who entered early? Or are there two t-shirt types, one for early entrants and the other for everyone?

J.

Domo1982

Collected my race pack last night and it contained my race number and 4 safety pins!!!!....Is that all you get for the €30?

Do you get a t-shirt or a medal at the end?

Murph_D

Looking forward to all the giving out about this race tomorrow.

average_runner

Domo1982 wrote: »

Collected my race pack last night and it contained my race number and 4 safety pins!!!!....Is that all you get for the €30?

Do you get a t-shirt or a medal at the end?

Needed to sign up early for your top

average_runner

Murph_D wrote: »

Looking forward to all the giving out about this race tomorrow.

Its a fun run and not a race for a time, going by past reports

jasonb

Domo1982 wrote: »

Collected my race pack last night and it contained my race number and 4 safety pins!!!!....Is that all you get for the €30?

Do you get a t-shirt or a medal at the end?

Did you not get a flashing led armband as well? The pack I got in the post had my number, 7 safety pins (!) and the armband.

As far as I know, there is some sort of 'goody bag' or something when you finish, but I don't think there's a medal as such, and as someone else said, I believe the t-shirts only went to the early registers...

J.

average_runner

jasonb wrote: »

Did you not get a flashing led armband as well? The pack I got in the post had my number, 7 safety pins (!) and the armband.

As far as I know, there is some sort of 'goody bag' or something when you finish, but I don't think there's a medal as such, and as someone else said, I believe the t-shirts only went to the early registers...

J.

I got 3 safety pins!!!!

jasonb

Ha! You can borrow some of mine if you want...

J.

Domo1982

Thanks!....Will swap safety pins for tech t-shirt(M) if anyone interested:)

average_runner

Domo1982 wrote: »

Thanks!....Will swap safety pins for tech t-shirt(M) if anyone interested:)

It was actually a long sleeve techincal top!!

menoscemo

KielyUnusual wrote: »

I've signed up for this with a few people from work. Long time since I've ran a 5k on the road so interested to see how it goes.

My big concern with these city centre races is the course length. So often, I've seen them go wrong. You can get it officially measured and all that but you still have to lay out the course correctly on the evening. From stewarding at the Grant Thornton, I know there is very little time between road closures and the race start to get everything laid out so people need to know what they are doing. Hopefully they get it right on the night. Only one turnaround point so if they get this and the start/finish right then there shouldn't be any issues.

Looking at the map of the course(s) for dublin there is just no logical way both courses can be the correct distance. The 5 and 10k courses appear to split at a point just a few hundred metres away from the 5k marker on the 10k course, yet there seems to still be a long way to the 5k finish!!

Hopefully it's just a glitch in the graphic.

http://static1.squarespace.com/static/53a44202e4b01c88f6aaea8c/t/55781c09e4b0f3b4bae252dd/1433934865666/?format=1500w

Saint Sonner

Quick question the missus is driving into collect me and maybe watch the finishers in Dublin. Where could she park? Not great with that area of dublin?

jasonb

menoscemo wrote: »

Looking at the map of the course(s) for dublin there is just no logical way both courses can be the correct distance. The 5 and 10k courses appear to split at a point just a few hundred metres away from the 5k marker on the 10k course, yet there seems to still be a long way to the 5k finish!!

Hopefully it's just a glitch in the graphic.

http://static1.squarespace.com/static/53a44202e4b01c88f6aaea8c/t/55781c09e4b0f3b4bae252dd/1433934865666/?format=1500w

I see what you mean, the 5k marker for the 10k runners does look a lot closer to the split point than the finish line for the 5k runners is. But I assume it is just a bad graphic, especially as the 6k then looks a little too far away from the 5k. I'd guess the 5k marker will be farther than the road tonight than it is on the map.

I did read about there being issues last year, with the 'joint' finish line actually being a couple of hundred metres farther down the road than the 5k distance, so that 5k runners actually ran 5.x km. But I believe this is a different course, and they've fixed that issue.

Saint Sonner wrote: »

Quick question the missus is driving into collect me and maybe watch the finishers in Dublin. Where could she park? Not great with that area of dublin?

Probably the closest car park that definitely won't be affected by road closures would be Fleet St or Andrew's Lane, which is only what, 10 minutes walk/warm up away. I know there is a Car Park at the Irish Life Mall on Abbey street, but I don't know if that might be affected by the road closures or not...

J.

average_runner

menoscemo wrote: »

Looking at the map of the course(s) for dublin there is just no logical way both courses can be the correct distance. The 5 and 10k courses appear to split at a point just a few hundred metres away from the 5k marker on the 10k course, yet there seems to still be a long way to the 5k finish!!

Hopefully it's just a glitch in the graphic.

http://static1.squarespace.com/static/53a44202e4b01c88f6aaea8c/t/55781c09e4b0f3b4bae252dd/1433934865666/?format=1500w

Saw that, it was apparently 5.5k last year.