Irish Mountain Running Association

Mountain Rescue Benefit Race

Description: A short route over Ticknock and Fairy Castle mountains first used by Mountain Rescue
County: Dublin
Date: Wednesday 31 August, 2011
Time: 7:30 PM
Climb (m): 200
Distance (km): 5.00
Event Difficulty: 5 (2,2,1) - Moderate Terrain, 200M - 500M ascent, <6Km
Race Marking:

- Route fully marked
Leagues:
Organisers Instructions: Dublin Wicklow Mountain Rescue Team and the Glen of Imall Mountain Rescue Team in association with IMRA are organising an end of Season Mountain Rescue Benefit Hill Run. As it is end of season, there will be no IMRA registration fee and new runners are most welcome. There will be several Mountain Rescue personnel from both teams in attendance so this is the race to have your tumble! There will be race prizes, sponsored by IMRA and others, several spot prizes and it promises to be a great fun night at the end of what has been a great season. Mountain Rescue in Ireland is a voluntary service, and depends on fundraising for most of its operating income. Between the two teams we respond to about 50 callouts per annum and cover an operational area from the Cooley Mountains down to South Wicklow. Please contact Brendan Lawlor 087 2432798 or Hugh McLindon 086 8520962 if you would like more information. Please support what we hope will be a great event in aid of a worthwhile cause.
Prizegiving Location: Lamb Doyle's pub

Volunteering

Current Volunteers

Role	Accepted	Run
Race Director	Brendan Lawlor	No
Race Marker	Vivian O'Gorman	No
Laptop Operator	Kevin O'Riordan	No
Helper	Fearghal Bracken	No
Helper	Gareth Little	Yes
Helper	Ger Power	Yes
Helper	Geraldine Murphy	No
Helper	Keith Fitzsimmons	No
Helper	Paul Nolan	Yes
Helper	Tamas Farkas	No

Please login to myIMRA to volunteer to help at this event. You should aim to volunteer at least once for every 10 events that you run.

Carpool

Driver Name	Location	Passing Through	Departure	Seats Available	Seats Accepted
Ronan Fleetwood	Milltown Luas Stop	Churchtown	18:30	4	1	Book
Stephen Brennan	Blanchardstown	M50	18:00	4	1	Book
James Clancy	Monkstown	N11 - Sandyford	00:00	3	1	Book

Forum Messages

Author	Date	Message
Tamas Farkas	Aug 12, 10:44PM	Hi Brendan, will you need a summit marshal on Fairy Castle? I'm first to ask for it so the role is mine. Isn't it? Cheers
Gareth Little	Aug 15, 5:15PM	Hi Tamas, Brendan is away on holidays. There will be a summit marshal required but I am unsure if this position will be filled my a mountain rescue volunteer or not. Brendan will confirm this when he is back, Rgds, Gareth
Roisin Mc Donnell	Aug 22, 10:46PM	Keith Fitzsimmons would like to volunteer to help at this race, cheers
Pawel Pentlinowski	Aug 27, 8:45PM	Hi Just a quick one. I'm not a member but I'd like to participate in the run. I am not familiar with the area where the race is, and was wondering if you could please let me know whether the start is at the same place where registration point is and how much time in advance the reg. point will be available? Many thanks for the info.
John Shiels	Aug 28, 8:36PM	The start and reg are at the same place and you can usually register from about an hour before the race start.
Brendan Lawlor	Aug 29, 1:09PM	Thanks to all of you who have offered to help with this Wednesday's Mountain Rescue Benefit race. Could you please plan to be at Ticknock by 6, or 6.15pm latest. The race route will be a slight variation on the traditional up/down route shown on the Map. People will run to the summit of Fairy Castle via the Boneshaker track and then come off the summit in a south east direction and pick up the track along the forest boundary to take you back to the aerials. It will be well marked (by that expert route marker Vivian O'Gorman!) and well marshalled. We want to avoid last years confusion. We hope as many of you as possible will mark the end of formal Wednesday night racing for 2011 with us Regards Brendan and Hugh
Declan O'Dwyer	Aug 29, 5:33PM	Hi Brendan, Would I be right in saying the slight variation of the route brings us down the trail used in the End of League Handicap, which made the Boneshaker track seem like flat tarmac, and will add about 2k to the length of the race. thanks Declan
Brendan Lawlor	Aug 29, 5:40PM	Declan That sounds right but I didn't do the handicap race. I will have copies of the route on hand on the night if we don't get a new map uploaded before then
Greg Byrne	Aug 29, 8:25PM	Brendan, from my reading of your description you will be sending runners down the new mountain bike trails, against the direction of the mbt trail. There is a rough track used by the mini-diggers to the side of the mountain bike trail, but people will invariably run on the nicer surface.
Brendan Lawlor	Aug 30, 12:14PM	Corrected map now up - thanks Greg for heads up re MTB trail, I'll warn Vivian about this, and we will make sure the route is well marshalled and marked to avoid any collisions
Declan O'Dwyer	Aug 30, 12:40PM	Brendan, Good to see the map, this does differ from the end of league handicap descent, having had a quick check on google earth, this appears to be about 6.5k in length.
seamus kilcullen	Aug 30, 7:54PM	what pub are we going to afterwards? seamus
Brendan Lawlor	Aug 30, 8:12PM	Lamb Doyles - you are on the ball as ever Seamus, like da Dubs!
michael redmond	Aug 30, 10:29PM	i hope it doesnt take 61 minutes to get the first pint
Fergal Connolly	Aug 31, 11:36AM	Hi, never done an IMRA race before. Will there be somewhere to lock a bike near the race start tonight? Thanks, Fergal
Brendan Lawlor	Aug 31, 11:38AM	Fergal - yes there will Tamas - we will send you up to Summit with a Mountain Rescuer - apologies, I missed your earlier request
Jack Layden	Aug 31, 11:41AM	Hello I Shall be driving from the shop at abbey street leaving at 6.20 or so kids back today, traffic may be bad. Enough room for 3/4 folk, depending on height/ weight/ ability to contort email shop if you want a lift cheers jack
Eamonn O'Neill	Aug 31, 4:37PM	Can't help out tonight...been gettin sick at work gone home, sorry Eamonn
Brendan Lawlor	Sep 1, 10:02AM	Thanks you to everyone who competed in last nights event - we raised over €1700 for the Mountain Rescue teams. Particular thanks to those of you who fundraised also. Our additional helpers last night ensured that everything ran smoothly so thank you to Vivian, Kevin, Ger, Keith, Tamas and Isabelle, as well as the mountain rescue volunteers from both teams We'll be back again next year with a new route Stay safe on the hills!