Charleville Half Marathon 2017

Itziger · 14-09-2017 6:58pm

Erra, lad, leave off with the weather forecasts FFS. It's Cork in September. Not Dubai in July or Vladivostok in January. it'll be grand. And it's a Half!

Now Berlin marathon, that's been 30 degrees one or two years.

hot buttered scones · 14-09-2017 7:30pm

[quote=ItzigerIt's Cork in September. [/quote]

So your saying it'll be cold, warm, dry, rainy, windy and calm (with a chance of hail) at some stage and possibly all at once?

hot buttered scones · 14-09-2017 7:34pm

Itziger wrote:

It's Cork in September.

So you saying it'll be cold, warm, rainy, dry, windy and calm (with a chance of hail) at some stage and possibly all at once?

Itziger · 14-09-2017 7:55pm

Precisely

rodneyr1981 · 14-09-2017 7:59pm

Might sound like a dumb question but not a local..
Is there plenty of parking nearby or should I factor in extra time etc?

hot buttered scones · 14-09-2017 8:07pm

rodneyr1981 wrote:

Might sound like a dumb question but not a local.. Is there plenty of parking nearby or should I factor in extra time etc?

There's loads of parking and it will be well stewarded. The farthest parking is about a 5 minute or so walk from registration. There's a big car park by the finish and next door near the industrial units.

chrislad · 15-09-2017 2:24pm

Itziger wrote: »

Erra, lad, leave off with the weather forecasts FFS. It's Cork in September. Not Dubai in July or Vladivostok in January. it'll be grand. And it's a Half!

Now Berlin marathon, that's been 30 degrees one or two years.

Ah stop with that! I don't need to be hearing that at this stage!

hot buttered scones · 15-09-2017 5:28pm

I've lost track of whose doing this on Sunday, so best of luck everyone. Hope it goes well.

El Caballo · 17-09-2017 12:55pm

Great race again this year as usual from North Cork AC. Really enjoyed it and managed to have a decent ol run as well for a change:pac:. 1.27:13 to record my fastest half in 4 years and finally get back to threatening Pb's again. I probably should of beat it today if not for a few overenthuastic middle miles that bit back in the last 5k. unofficial 10 mile PB of 64:52 en route. Roll on Dublin.

Jakey Rolling · 17-09-2017 1:28pm

Turned out to be perfect weather for the race today. Excellent organisation and atmosphere.

Finally did myself justice and reduced my PB from 1:36:30 to 1:31:30ish. Tried for 1:30 pace the first mile but could feel it wasn't sustainable so went for plan B and ran a comfortable 1:32 pace.

Great feed in the hall afterwards.
Onwards to Dublin...

hot buttered scones · 17-09-2017 3:04pm

What a day. The weather was perfect and everything just clicked into place. My goal was 1:30:00. I reduced my PB from 1:31:55 to 1:26:37 (chip time) with unofficial 10k and 10 mile PBs on the way. I went out a bit fast but it felt comfortable so I just stuck with it and pushed on a bit from Kilmallock on. I'm over the moon. I honestly can't believe I just did that!! Full report to follow in my log. Superbly organised race again.

El Caballo · 17-09-2017 3:32pm

hot buttered scones wrote: »

What a day. The weather was perfect and everything just clicked into place. My goal was 1:30:00. I reduced my PB from 1:31:55 to 1:26:37 (chip time) with unofficial 10k and 10 mile PBs on the way. I went out a bit fast but it felt comfortable so I just stuck with it and pushed on a bit from Kilmallock on. I'm over the moon. I honestly can't believe I just did that!! Full report to follow in my log. Superbly organised race again.

Jaysis, fair play. that's some scalp to take off your PB. You must've passed me in the last mile.

rodneyr1981 · 17-09-2017 4:17pm

Great day and great race. Fair play to them very enjoyable

mrmoonlight · 17-09-2017 5:36pm

Great race that was well organised. Planned to do it in 1:45 did it in 1:40! Delighted first half marathon done and dusted

An_Reathai · 17-09-2017 5:38pm

Fantastically organised race + perfect conditions = 241 runners sub-90 mins...

https://www.sportsplits.com/home/results?c=74&r=338&e=1

boydkev · 18-09-2017 7:33am

Great race and the weather ended up being perfect, Got my PB down from 1.36.55 down to 1.33.45. So a good day

sideswipe · 18-09-2017 10:36am

Great race. Really nice to run in perfect conditions and temperature after a summer were every race I entered seemed to be a hot day!!

Not wanting to criticise any aspect of what is probably in my top 3 races- but I did think the pacers were a little over excited!
The 1:30 pacers anyway- they seemed to go out hard and ease off, both of them positive split the course, one by 1 min the other by 2 (missing the sub 1:30) I tried to keep up with them but left them off when the 1st mile was in 6:38 (It was a downhill mile I know) and they were still pulling away. There wasn't many left with them at the end.
Anyway, as I said I'm not complaining- I know they do it for no reward and it is great to have them, but it just proves that sometimes it's best to run your own race.
Some standard of runners there, you break 1:30 and theres hundreds of finishers milling around!!

RayCun · 18-09-2017 10:41am

An_Reathai wrote: »

Fantastically organised race + perfect conditions = 241 runners sub-90 mins...

https://www.sportsplits.com/home/results?c=74&r=338&e=1

66 under 80, very impressive

opus · 18-09-2017 12:28pm

Great event yet again, fair play to North Cork AC! Don't think the extra numbers made it more congested or anything either.

Charleville Half Marathon 2017

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