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Cork City Marathon 2017
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Can anyone translate this from local knowledge of the Cork road system into the same road names that appear on Google Maps?
I'm assuming that the Blackpool Bypass is the N20?
What road are they calling the North Link Road as I can't find it, or the "exit further to the east" is not making sense as the N20 appears to come into the city from the north west.
Spot on, the Blackpool Bypass is indeed the N20. I'm guessing by North Link Road they mean the North Ring Road as you could head further east on that and say come into town via Ballyhooly Road.
If I was coming from Limerick direction that morning, I'd be tempted to get off the N20 at Blarney & come into town further west via this route.
Remember Cork is really just a big town so you'll never be too far from the marathon start in any case
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Spot on, the Blackpool Bypass is indeed the N20. I'm guessing by North Link Road they mean the North Ring Road as you could head further east on that and say come into town via Ballyhooly Road.
If I was coming from Limerick direction that morning, I'd be tempted to get off the N20 at Blarney & come into town further west via this route.
Remember Cork is really just a big town so you'll never be too far from the marathon start in any case
Perfect, thanks for that. It's the support crew that are going to be a less mobile so need to get the car as close to the centre as possible, otherwise I'd just park a few miles out and use that as the warm up. 0 -
Perfect, thanks for that. It's the support crew that are going to be a less mobile so need to get the car as close to the centre as possible, otherwise I'd just park a few miles out and use that as the warm up.
If you're into town before 8am you can park in the aforementioned Carrolls Quay Car Park or there should be parking at that hour on the surrounding streets as well. It's as close as you can get to the start and can view 3 or 4 different stages of the race within a couple of hundred yards at most.
EDIT: It's 400 mt to the start line from there. The race passes the front entrance of that car park on the way out to Blackpool and again on the way back in. The latter stages of the race can be seen the either at the North Gate Bridge area (500mt upstream) or back again at the finish line.
It's an ideal area to park for those who may not be so mobile and will most likely be as close as you can get to the city centre on the day.0 -
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Hi all. Won't get to cork til 6pm tomorrow. Will I have time to get my number? I think its says it stays open until 8pm?
Also any idea what the wind is like in terms of course? I see winds of 15-24 km/hr forecast, buy no idea if that's strong or likely to be against us for much of the route.
As you may have guessed taper fever/ nerves getting the best of me 0 -
Hi all. Won't get to cork til 6pm tomorrow. Will I have time to get my number? I think its says it stays open until 8pm?
Also any idea what the wind is like in terms of course? I see winds of 15-24 km/hr forecast, buy no idea if that's strong or likely to be against us for much of the route.
As you may have guessed taper fever/ nerves getting the best of me
6pm should be fine.
Wind speeds:
https://www.windfinder.com/wind/windspeed.htm
So a moderate to fresh breeze, but probably ok.
The wind is forecast as WSW, so roughly at our backs on the straight road for the last few miles and also when we're heading towards the tunnel. This does mean we'll be running into it for a good bit of the second half, but I reckon we should be fairly sheltered for most of that, and it will be cooling. The Norwegians (yr.no) are giving the humidity at 73% and 63% for 9-10 and 10-11 am, which is very good. So a bright (with some cloud cover), coolish morning with low humidity and a gentle breeze at your back in many parts, and no rain forecast. Temperatures of 12 deg at 9am rising to 15 by 12am - a great forecast if it sticks.
Having said that, the forecast is changing every six hours so I'd wait until about 9am Sunday morning to see what the weather's going to be like.
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hot buttered scones wrote: »6pm should be fine.
Wind speeds:
https://www.windfinder.com/wind/windspeed.htm
So a moderate to fresh breeze, but probably ok.
The wind is forecast as WSW, so roughly at our backs on the straight road for the last few miles and also when we're heading towards the tunnel. This does mean we'll be running into it for a good bit of the second half, but I reckon we should be fairly sheltered for most of that, and it will be cooling. The Norwegians (yr.no) are giving the humidity at 73% and 63% for 9-10 and 10-11 am, which is very good. So a bright (with some cloud cover), coolish morning with low humidity and a gentle breeze at your back in many parts, and no rain forecast. Temperatures of 12 deg at 9am rising to 15 by 12am - a great forecast if it sticks.
Having said that, the forecast is changing every six hours so I'd wait until about 9am Sunday morning to see what the weather's going to be like.
Great stuff. Thanks a million. Good not to have to run against the wind for the last bit, hopefully we get big gusts at that point. If I'm still standing, I'll need them0 -
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