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The Cork City Marathon returns this year after a 20+ year absence. It's on next Monday and I'm doing it in aid of Irish Cancer Society. No explanation needed really as to why I chose this charity - I think everyone knows someone who has been affected by cancer. If you would like to sponsor me, you can do so via the following link.
Cheers,
Shedite
http://www.mycharity.ie/event/mark_cannings_event
good on you shedite, whats the marathon route and where and what time is it going from?
It starts off at 9am from Patrick Street. Out around Blackpool and down east towards the tunnel. Through the tunnel and back in along the marina. Then out past Turners Cross and over through Togher to Bishopstown, out to the guide dogs by Ballincollig and back in along the straight road.
It's my first marathon and would love to beat 3:30 but I reckon i'll be a little short of that, probably around 3:40
We'll see how it goes on the day
Have pretty much nothing to spare shedite but best of luck with it.
That's some distance.
Great Day in town yesterday, great crowd turned out to welcome the runners home.
Results here
On the down side the coverage given by RTE last night was disgraceful.
5 seconds of a report versus a full report on a Ladies Fun Run in Dublin.
How'd it go? That was some heat.Quote:
Originally Posted by shedite
The STIG relay team finished in 5:29.
Are you sure, i didn't hear anything about it, TV3 were crap aswell.Quote:
Originally Posted by razor
Fair play to Shedite, he was going great guns at the 4th water station anyway. Fair play to all that took part.
Well I finished it in 4:10 anyway. I started out way too quickly. I should have toned it down when I saw the heat. I was at halfway in 1:46
After that I started getting stomach cramps. That Lucozade you gave me Face, I threw up outside musgrave park.
Finished the race anyway which was always a goal of mine. Guess I'm gonna have to do it again now to get a better time!
Cheers for the Lucozade! :D
Lucky we had Student Mullet in reserve, or it'd have taken a bit longer!Quote:
Originally Posted by Bald Student
1:09 for my 5.7 miles stint - was rather impressed seeing as I haven't run since two weeks of middle-distance training in first year in school.
Saw one poor lad finish the first leg (5.3 miles) and just collapse to the ground; didn't even have the energy to put his hands out to break his fall and bust his nose right open.
I was just lookin through the results there and spotted that ex Cork City captain Declan Daly did the marathon in 3:33. That's some goin!
Well done Shedite!!Quote:
Originally Posted by shedite
I remember my first Full Marathon....did the same as you, coasting the first half in identical time to you, then finished in 3hours 54min.....it bloody hurt!!:eek:
I learnt from that, and my next one was London, where I did the first half much slower, ending up crossing the line in 3hours 24 mins!:)
Good luck with your next one!
Jebus ..... and it was isotonic and everything like !! :eek::pQuote:
Originally Posted by shedite
Sorry 'bout that Shedite, fair play for doing it though.
Terry Barrett, Anthony Buckley, Alan and Pat Kelly did it too. All seemed to be going great guns when they passed us.Quote:
Originally Posted by shedite
In fairness far more people did that "fun run" and its also a higher standard of compeitive running too.Quote:
Originally Posted by razor
Its the biggest day in the calander for most charities in ireland
The fun run is 10k. I ran 9k for just my leg of the marathon, and I'm a fat *******. To call 10k a mini-marathon spits on the memory of Pheidippides.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dodge
Which, I'm sure we can all agree, is far more important than earning millions of euros for 100s of charities
I get the impression that Dodge is suggesting, no money was raised by the Cork City Marathon?Quote:
Originally Posted by Dodge
I'm sure there are plenty who could correct him!
Really? I didn't get that impression. Yes, the Cork City possibly deserved some more media attention, but don't take it out on the mini-marathon.
:rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Peadar
Not at all. Fair play to anybody who did it, and I hope millions were raised for variopus charities.
I just don't see how anybody say that it was a "disgrace" a race with 1,355 finishers get less coverage than an established race featuring 40,000 runners
Nice bit of marketing there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dodge
I'll adjust it for you though.
A Marathon, with 1,355 finishers, got less coverage than a fun run, with 40,000 starters.
Or to deal with the real issue:Quote:
Originally Posted by Peadar
A race in Cork, with 1,355 finishers, got less coverage than a race in dublin, with 40,000 starters.
Run Rock Solid?
Come off it, we spent all weekend telling people we were running the Cork Marathon, leaving out the word 'relay' whenever we could.Quote:
Originally Posted by John83
It's my opinion, and I'm sure Pheidippides would agree with me, that anyone who doesn't run so fast that they die at the end of the race spits on his memory.
I'd like to point out that the event in Dublin, wasn't a "race".Quote:
Originally Posted by fosterdollar
Yes it was. The winner of the race has raced in the olympics and the "elite" standard is quite decent.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peadar
The winner of the men's marathon in Cork, on the other hand, wouldn't even qualify for the women's olympics. A very poor standard
Thierry Henry has kicked a ball around his local park, does that make it the World Cup Final? :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by Dodge
When the seagulls... follow the trawler... it's because they think... sardines will be thrown into the seaQuote:
Originally Posted by Peadar
I'm not begrudging the fun run its report but the marathon in Cork could have at least had a similar airtime.Quote:
Originally Posted by noby
I was comparing the 2 because they appeared on the same sports bulletin.
The 4,000 people that participated in Cork surely deserved more coverage.
Why? And it wasn't only a fun runQuote:
Originally Posted by razor
Because its a marathon, a major sporting event, the first in Cork since 1986 and it deserved more than the 5 seconds it received.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dodge
for 99.9% of those ladies thats all it was.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dodge
Sorry, thought you meant it merited more than the biggest race in Ireland. Yes it deserved more coverage, no it didn't deserve more than the Womens mini marathonQuote:
Originally Posted by razor
:rolleyes:Quote:
for 99.9% of those ladies thats all it was.
As I said previously, I used the ladies fun run as an example because it was in the same sports bulletin, I never said it deserved more coverage than it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dodge