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Rock ‘n’ Roll Half Marathon Dublin 2019

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    #62
    G Shock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29 ✭G Shock


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


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    #63
    Shlippery
    Registered Users Posts: 2,259 ✭✭✭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!


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    #64
    Burkie1203
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    Shuttle buses were a joke

    They need to start/finish in same location in future

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


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    #65
    tea and coffee
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    @shlippeey: There was non alcoholic erdinger. Big tent in the field. Free ticket was attached to your bib.


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    #66
    Tchaikovsky
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    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.


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    #67
    ewc78
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    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.


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    #68
    Burkie1203
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    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


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    #69
    G Shock
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    Do they post up photos anywhere, anyone know?


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    #70
    dominatinMC
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    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.


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    #71
    Damo 2k9
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    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.


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    #72
    Shlippery
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    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?


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    #73
    WayneEnterprise
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    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


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    #74
    Dubliner2019
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    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...


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    #75
    Burkie1203
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    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.


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    #76
    Damo 2k9
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    Burkie1203 wrote: »
    They should just put on goody bags instead.

    Yep, 100% agree.


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    #77
    ewc78
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    WayneEnterprise wrote: »
    Yep on https://www.finisherpix.com/home.html

    They're not up just yet though

    Photos are up now.


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    #78
    Kissy Lips
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    2 photos of me and about 15 of some aul one with the same number. Must have been doing the 10km?


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    #79
    Glencarraig
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    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.


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    #80
    Big Bad Wolf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35 ✭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...


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    #81
    WayneEnterprise
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    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


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    #82
    tea and coffee
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    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 :-(


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