Rock ‘n’ Roll Half Marathon Dublin 2019

ewc78

Actually I do have another gripe. At the end there was several people filling their bags with the provided snacks. I seen people basically empty full boxes of stuff into their bags, with no thought about leaving stuff for people who haven't finished yet. I saw one guy when I was walking back to the car with a full box of the Lindor Chocolates. I hope he chokes on them.What gets into people that makes them so greedy they need to do that?

saffron22

ewc78 wrote: »

Actually I do have another gripe. At the end there was several people filling their bags with the provided snacks. I seen people basically empty full boxes of stuff into their bags, with no thought about leaving stuff for people who haven't finished yet. I saw one guy when I was walking back to the car with a full box of the Lindor Chocolates. I hope he chokes on them.What gets into people that makes them so greedy they need to do that?

I also saw a girl grab 2 entire boxes of the nut bars and a full thing of magnesium water. On a side note I didnt even see the lindor chocolates. I love those things. Whyyyyyyyy

tea and coffee

Had great fun again this year. Lots of toilets at 10km start (which I appreciate is eff all use to anyone in the Fitz)

Parked handy in the park again today, 10km cadence seemed fine esp as I had done zero training - quite doable.

Good "loot" afterwards. Hate the scabs taking 10 of everything.

Kids and I enjoyed a picnic and then did the fun run. (At the end of the fun run one of the volunteers asked my son if he wanted a bag of drinks - I guess they didn't want to pack them up so that was nice)

Weather held, chilled atmosphere and lots of fun bling. It is expensive but I found it enjoyable (And I'm not there to pelt along )

Final observation: I thought the half and 10km merge was cleverly done.

G Shock

I thought it was a great day out, perfect day for a 10k trot around the park. Jerry Fish put on a good show afterwards too. I'll defo sign up for the half next year, really enjoyed the whole experience.

AlanPat

Have to have a rant...waited 30 mins for a shuttle bus in Phoenix Park to arrive. When it did arrive at 710am I got to the start for 740am, dropped bag off to find that there were about a total of 10 portaloos available. Meant queuing and missing the start or just getting in with it. Resulted in a pit stop in KJH and lost time. Course was tough but enjoyable. Really thinking of not entering next year as they continually have issues at the start which is a shame as the bands were great again this year along the route.

ISOP

ewc78 wrote: »

Actually I do have another gripe. At the end there was several people filling their bags with the provided snacks. I seen people basically empty full boxes of stuff into their bags, with no thought about leaving stuff for people who haven't finished yet. I saw one guy when I was walking back to the car with a full box of the Lindor Chocolates. I hope he chokes on them.What gets into people that makes them so greedy they need to do that?

That is incredibly ignorant

Caprica

Did the 10k this morning. Kinda funny that as the leading half marathoners were finishing we were just heading off. The merging of the 10k and the half worked well but it must have been very annoying for the half marathoners ( the 2hr runners) to see all the fresher 10k people sailing past. However there was lot of weaving in and out round people.

Got my remix medal for doing the two races. It was quite a busy collection point so there must have been a lot of people doubling up. I had have two complaints;

1. The baggage pick for the 10k was chaos. There seemed to be no logic as to how bags were placed in sequence. You were left queuing for along time. They could look at that for next year. Staff were very friendly but were going to have a tough day.

2. Was people taking multiples of everything, as was said previously. I’m not sure what would be left for the back markers. I did a cool down and there was still a steady stream of finishers around the 3hr mark. I doubt there was many bars or Lindt left. Very selfish and ignorant behavior but I’ve seen that before at this race.

I took one Lindt. It was disappointing, not up to their usual standards.

Caprica

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kc87

Caprica wrote: »

Did the 10k this morning. Kinda funny that as the leading half marathoners were finishing we were just heading off. The merging of the 10k and the half worked well but it must have been very annoying for the half marathoners ( the 2hr runners) to see all the fresher 10k people sailing past. However there was lot of weaving in and out round people.

Completely agree. Only started running this year so don't have much experience in bigger races but found having 10km runners whizzing by quiet disheartening and also the added volume of people on narrow roads was rough at times aswell.

Very hilly course but taught was enjoyable aswell

Centralrunner1

I enjoyed the race but toilets at the start were ridiculous for the amount of people running. I missed my wave start due to queueing. Liked the water stations and bands. The queues for t shirts, beer and engraving were so long at the end. Shuttle buses seemed to be a nightmare before and after the race. A great atmosphere though and enjoyed it.

G Shock

There's probably still people queueing in the park waiting to get their medal engraved.

Shlippery

Enjoyed the 5 & 10ks but definitely didn't seem as well organised as the previous years (and they had problems too)

The band for the 5k consisted of one lad in a tent playing songs on an ipod??? Not quite rock n roll, and the finishers zone on the Saturday was fairly sparse. Pretty sure we got a free non alcoholic erdinger both days last year :P (what's the story with non alcoholic beer post-races is that just an Irish thing?)

Missed the city part of the 10k this year too but overall enjoyed it. It's gas how many Yanks travel over for it. All lovely people though, just seems daft to travel so far!

I did the race in Vancouver a few years ago and it was some difference in organisation!

Burkie1203

Shuttle buses were a joke

They need to start/finish in same location in future

Route was excellent. Was 5min8s quicker then last year.

tea and coffee

@shlippeey: There was non alcoholic erdinger. Big tent in the field. Free ticket was attached to your bib.

Tchaikovsky

Portaloos along the route cannot be underestimated when it comes to other races! I presume the really early start was to get everything cleared up in the city before the traffic built up. Decent enough race; I was lucky enough to be able to get the Luas in so didn't have to bring a bag. I heard that the bag drop would be a problem.

ewc78

What was the problem people had with the shuttle bus? I parked up near the Castleknock entrance to the park, walked down to where the shuttle bus was and hopped on one straight away and it brought me to the start area no problem at all. I thought it was all very smooth.

Burkie1203

ewc78 wrote: »

What was the problem people had with the shuttle bus? I parked up near the Castleknock entrance to the park, walked down to where the shuttle bus was and hopped on one straight away and it brought me to the start area no problem at all. I thought it was all very smooth.

There was hundreds of people queuing at the zoo and parkgate street who were left standing for an hour before being collected. There should have been busses starting at these points too. I was of the park at 6.40am. We got a bus at 7.30am. Arrived at the start line at 7.55. No chance to get any sort of warm up in.

Queue for loos were insane. That whole side of Fitz Square needed to be lined with portaloos.


The race series 10k a few weeks ago had none of these issues. If they are organised right it's simple. The Irish Runner 10 mile the same. None of this nonsense that always exists with RnR. And your paying far more for the race number

G Shock

Do they post up photos anywhere, anyone know?

dominatinMC

ewc78 wrote: »

What was the problem people had with the shuttle bus? I parked up near the Castleknock entrance to the park, walked down to where the shuttle bus was and hopped on one straight away and it brought me to the start area no problem at all. I thought it was all very smooth.

The fact that the buses didn't drop people back to the start line was a joke. I (and a few others with me) parked in Stephens green car park - assuming that the shuttle buses would be dropping us back to the start point again once the race was over. Obviously, this was not the case and we had to make our own way across town to get to our cars. If a race doesn't start & finish at the same point, provisions should be made for people to return to the start point again. We were up from the country, so that's we we decided to drive, and parked in the location recommended to us by the organisers.



Other than that, I thought it was well run, and enjoyed the route for the most part.

Damo 2k9

Going past some of the finishers of the 5k in the park on Sat morning and I couldnt get over the boxes of stuff people were walking away with, and these werent last finishers either. Admittedly, in the past I have taken an extra 'kind' bar maybe if it was ok with the volunteers, but nothing to the extent of what I saw on Saturday morning. 3/4 cases of powerade, 5 or 6 bottles of juice, a box of bars, loads of water etc, crazy.

Shlippery

tea and coffee wrote: »

@shlippeey: There was non alcoholic erdinger. Big tent in the field. Free ticket was attached to your bib.

Oh I know yeah, just last year they had it both days.

I was more so wondering is there a law that says it has to be non-alcoholic for Irish races?

WayneEnterprise

G Shock wrote: »

Do they post up photos anywhere, anyone know?

Yep on https://www.finisherpix.com/home.html

They're not up just yet though

Dubliner2019

Burkie1203 wrote: »

Shuttle buses were a joke

They need to start/finish in same location in future

Route was excellent. Was 5min8s quicker then last year.

The start/finish at different locations is very annoying, the shuttle just took the people back to the entrance of Phoenix park, my car was miles away...

Burkie1203

Damo 2k9 wrote: »

Going past some of the finishers of the 5k in the park on Sat morning and I couldnt get over the boxes of stuff people were walking away with, and these werent last finishers either. Admittedly, in the past I have taken an extra 'kind' bar maybe if it was ok with the volunteers, but nothing to the extent of what I saw on Saturday morning. 3/4 cases of powerade, 5 or 6 bottles of juice, a box of bars, loads of water etc, crazy.

They should just put on goody bags instead.

Damo 2k9

Burkie1203 wrote: »

They should just put on goody bags instead.

Yep, 100% agree.

ewc78

WayneEnterprise wrote: »

Yep on https://www.finisherpix.com/home.html

They're not up just yet though

Photos are up now.

Kissy Lips

2 photos of me and about 15 of some aul one with the same number. Must have been doing the 10km?

Glencarraig

G Shock wrote: »

Do they post up photos anywhere, anyone know?

You will get an email from Finisherpix offering you a variety of photo bundles. Mine are shocking and I somehow turned into a woman in some of them.

Big Bad Wolf

My photos were a load of sh¡te, I'm not even in some of them. The prices are a joke too...

WayneEnterprise

Big Bad Wolf wrote: »

My photos were a load of sh¡te, I'm not even in some of them. The prices are a joke too...

Yeah crazy money, just took screenshots of the good ones myself

tea and coffee

WayneEnterprise wrote: »

Yeah crazy money, just took screenshots of the good ones myself

I’m missing loads. None of several family members who took part :-(