Dublin Marathon 2022

Anyone have a course profile of the upcoming 10km in Swords? Not familiar with the area just wondering is it hilly etc.

It's as flat as you'd want for a 10k. Slight drag in opening km and near the end, but nothing to worry about.

650 finishers in the Irish Runner 10 mile today in the park, the three euro shakedown seems not to have gone unnoticed.

Half of the number of finishers in 2018/2019. Large events would want to get their act together and stop gouging or else we are heading for 2012 again.

Edenderry (Co Offaly) 10 miler was on yesterday also - 245 ran. Roscommon 10 mile on the weekend before - 413 ran.

Roscommon crowd were never coming to Dublin, a bus load of them maybe. Edenderry, possibly 100 or so of them from midlands.

Is the cost of fuel having that much of an impact seeing as race entry fees are generally the same?

I know hotels alone are making a trip from the west of the country to Dublin for an early start a no go now, all the DCM race series mean a silly o'clock start leaving the house for a 9AM race. Swords should be hit hard again next week.

Edit:

I do see Clontarf had a huge entry for 1/2 marathon and 5 mile a week earlier, so the Dublin market is alive and well after all.

Quote: Im already starting to figure out how I will get to Dublin for the marathon and I only live in Louth.

I would suggest the train as the best option but Irish Rail will as usual plan some "essential" engineering works for that weekend.

The 3rd paragraph is the key in my opinion. Yes costs are up, yes people are away, but people were away at the same time in 2019 when the same events were on and they had much bigger turnouts. Granted the starting time is probably relevant but some differences are around 40% lower. Thats more than just a start time.

It doesn't really make sense to say that people are budget conscious but also out living it up instead of entering an event costing €25 or whatever. Parkrun participation is also well down on pre-lockdown for the same time of year and has been persistently lower for months. These are local events at no cost.

Even just with my own observations I see a lot less people out on the roads that 2019.

COVID is a bit of a catch-all for everything these days but people are more aware of the reality of this for most healthy people at this point. Its a cop-out. The simplest explanation is that lockdowns have knocked the habit out of people and they aren't taking it back up (yet).

I believe there was a public representative for hoteliers stating that hotel occupancies in Ireland were exceptionally high resulting in remaining rooms going for sky high prices.

https://www.breakingnews.ie/amp/ireland/shortage-of-dublin-hotel-rooms-resulting-in-high-rates-says-irish-hotels-federation-1320419.html

The answer is revealed but not explicit. These hotels have high occupancy but tourism rates have gone down.

These rooms have been hoovered up by government agencies to house people of their choice. That's why prices are so high. The hotel model is not an organic supply and demand one akin to what it was 15 years ago. These hoteliers are somewhat scarred and are prepared to agree to all sorts of deals for long term stays with various government agencies.

People are free to agree with these policies but therein is the outcome.

Dont believe the hype completely. Giving the hotels up to Ukranians certainly affects availability but it doesnt have to affect prices. Irish companies love to hide behind 'supply and demand' as if they have to increase their prices.

Their costs havent gone up more than any other industry. Its good old Irish gouging, its as simple as that. They claimed the poor mouth in COVID and this is how they repay people. Its a disgrace the price of hotels.

i gather the staffing level is key. I've heard that many hotels are so short in staff that they are often not opening all their rooms. This is a main driver of the shortage of rooms and the high prices.

Is it possible to transfer your ticket, I missed the deadline to get a refund.

What’s the reason they don’t allow an official transfer ? Do you know ?

No idea. But imagine itd be a serious pain in the hoop and a load of admin work, so maybe thats why