'Great' Ireland run 2016

RayCun

I was planning on running it this year - haven't run it in 4 or 5? - but I'm away all weekend

youngrun

Great race and great course, a real test, National 10k so we have a good few giving it a go . Gemma steel running v finn britton, laura shaugs, christie should be irish champ imho.

ooter

Has anyone got a course map for the 5 k race, will be doing my long run early Sunday morning so want to avoid the masses?
Can only find the 10k course on the gir site.

RayCun

ooter wrote: »

Has anyone got a course map for the 5 k race, will be doing my long run early Sunday morning so want to avoid the masses?
Can only find the 10k course on the gir site.

this it?
http://www.greatrun.org/great-ireland-run/great-ireland-run-5k

Running Fool

youngrun wrote: »

Great race and great course, a real test, National 10k so we have a good few giving it a go . Gemma steel running v finn britton, laura shaugs, christie should be irish champ imho.

Sundays weather looks ok.
Am guessing its not a PB course is it?

sideswipe

Looking forward to this. Never ran it before but hoping to give it a good lash, looks like a few hills over the last few k but hoping for a pb so trying not to let that psych me out.

Bottleopener

Really looking forward to this, my first race in the park since I started running, and living nearby its all on routes I train regularly on! Going to be cool to see it during a race - hopefully the weather will be decent!

ene

Picked up my race pack and realised I am in the pink or last wave.... think i was very pessimistic over my possible time. Hoping to run it in under a hour but may be hard if surrounded by walkers!

ooter

2nd half of the course much tougher than the first in my opinion, once you hit the magazine fort it's game on.

JMSE

Am doing the 10k hopefully, never done this race before, I do feckall hills so that cud kybosh my plans for world domination. I'm ok with it not being a club event, hope to support a good few of those over the year either way, if I wasn't doing this race it'd be the bhaa 4 miler Saturday morn for defo but it is what it is as they say in Dubai. Good luck fellow athletes!

scotindublin

Am I correct in thinking AAI entries have to be collected on the day?

Good luck to all.

JMSE

no it's lifestyle sports in blanch until 7pm tonite, from 10am to 4pm tomorrow or failing that you can collect from the information tent Sunday morn from 8.30, that's the info I took down when I applied

scotindublin

Thanks JMSE.....one of the lads from the club picked it up in Blanch today.....I had it in my head that collection on the day was the only option.

JMSE wrote: »

no it's lifestyle sports in blanch until 7pm tonite, from 10am to 4pm tomorrow or failing that you can collect from the information tent Sunday morn from 8.30, that's the info I took down when I applied

Running Fool

So with hills etc in 2nd half... advice on strategy for running this race?

Trimm Trabb

Having only raced flat courses before found the 2nd half of that v tough..

My PB is 44:57 and was 8 seconds slower than that this time out even though I have done a lot of training since then. Doing a flat course next week so hoping without hills I will be able to take a bit off my PB.

Enjoyed the event and thought it was well laid out and organised overall but I was annoyed there was no toilet paper in toilets 30 mins before race.

CassieManson

I really enjoyed it today. Very well organised. The hills were not as tough as I had expected. Weather was perfect too.

ene

I enjoyed it but really agree with the lack of toilet paper and basically disgusting facilities!

Finished in a hour and 23seconds

Bottleopener

Lovely race today - PB so I'm happy! Very close to sub 50, but that can wait til another day I guess! Good afternoon all round and hope everyone else enjoyed it too!

Bananaleaf

Bottleopener wrote: »

Lovely race today - PB so I'm happy! Very close to sub 50, but that can wait til another day I guess! Good afternoon all round and hope everyone else enjoyed it too!

If you were close to sub50 on that course, you will definitely pick it up somewhere flatter.

I enjoyed the race and I liked the route. It was a mentally and physically tough one for me because at km2 I had to make the decision of slowing down completely because I could feel discomfort in my legs from overtraining (my own fault, I know) I was on course for a PB and everything was right, even the weather, but I just knew right there it wasn't going to happen.

I ended up finishing in my worst time ever but I know it was for the greater good. Will be back next year.

hawkwing

Worst time ever for me too in 11 attempts but i like the course and thought i would be even slower:o 6+ months to DCM '17,a new focus starts now!

Bananaleaf

hawkwing wrote: »

Worst time ever for me too in 11 attempts but i like the course and thought i would be even slower:o 6+ months to DCM '17,a new focus starts now!

AMEN! Not in the running for a marathon just yet but will be trying her half-sister this year - will be my first attempt at that distance.

Nice t-shirt - colour and artwork are lovely.

JMSE

That was my 1st 'real' Phoenix park race I.e one that took in those hills - that's a tough 5k although the 1st 5k is a dream. I'm pretty sure I wud have lay down on the tar if there'd been one more climb. Happy to have done it, now to beat the time next year.

TommyGrealy

Running Fool wrote: »

So with hills etc in 2nd half... advice on strategy for running this race?

Um, a bit late for this year but for anyone doing it in 2018... Here's my advice:
Arrive at the 5k mark having run at a comfortable pace.  The last 500m of km 4-5 is a big downhill. People will pass you here.. LET THEM!!! You need to use this hill to recover for what is ahead of you on the back 5k. When you are on the back 5k you will loose speed and drop some time, but remember there are only 3 big hills and there is some recovery time between each of them. The last of the 3 is the steepest but also the shortest. The last K is nice (it was for me anyway:) ), you can see the finish line from the 9k mark which is nice in some ways. I really enjoyed this years race. Good condiditons

ooter

If the wind is blowing the wrong way the last 1km can be pretty nasty.

Trimm Trabb

TommyGrealy wrote: »

Um, a bit late for this year but for anyone doing it in 2018... Here's my advice:
Arrive at the 5k mark having run at a comfortable pace.  The last 500m of km 4-5 is a big downhill. People will pass you here.. LET THEM!!! You need to use this hill to recover for what is ahead of you on the back 5k. When you are on the back 5k you will loose speed and drop some time, but remember there are only 3 big hills and there is some recovery time between each of them. The last of the 3 is the steepest but also the shortest. The last K is nice (it was for me anyway:) ), you can see the finish line from the 9k mark which is nice in some ways. I really enjoyed this years race. Good condiditons

As someone who ran the first 5k in 21:00 and second 5k in 24:00 I probably could have done with this advice. What should my splits of looked like to get a better time?

Like if had done the first 5k in 22:30 should I then we looking at doing the second 5k in 22:00 even with the hills?

diego_b

Trimm Trabb wrote: »

As someone who ran the first 5k in 21:00 and second 5k in 24:00 I probably could have done with this advice. What should my splits of looked like to get a better time?

Like if had done the first 5k in 22:30 should I then we looking at doing the second 5k in 22:00 even with the hills?

FWIW I used the strategy as above by TommyGrealy and ran the first 5K pretty comfortable in 22:37 (my 5K pb is about a min quicker) and ran the second half in 23:25. Going on what I knew of the course and what I read on previous reports I expected to lose 30-60 seconds on the second half. I ran the course on the Thursday night last week for a refresher.

JMSE

Something similar to you DiegoB, I lost over a minute on the 2nd half. Looking back I cant believe my pace dropped only 35 seconds in both miles 4 and 5. It sure felt a lot worse, although my 'plan' was to do my best to be quick on the downhills after a slog on the ups, I've heard an online coach recommending your heartbeat on the uphills should ideally be the same as on the downhills. That doesnt mean I even looked at my heartrate once, but I took the advice and let the uphill do what it would to my pace as long as I'd give it a bit of welly going down.

conavitzky

Ran the first half in 17:01 ( 5k pb 16:50). Ran second half in 18:05 (for a new pb). Found the hills torture in second half. It was a case of survival. Every bit of me wanted to stop!