Wicklow Way Relay - Good Luck!

[DavidF]

Now John Dempsey has done an unbelievable job getting his relay team together for the WW relay in Saturday. Best of luck to everyone, do us proud!

For those of you who don't know who's taking part, here you go

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[don]

Great stuff David, although I'm slightly thankfull I wasn't one of the participants for this collage, I'd say there wouldn't be a chopstick body atatched to my photo . The very best of luck to all taking part, it's a fantastic race with some serious organisation done by John. We even have the great Tom Hogan as part of the team (still can't get my head around that Marathon Time), who is an even better hill runner . Best of luck everyone, the race report will be interesting to say the least.

[DavidC]

Jaysus Furlong you have waay too much time on your hands! Well done John fo rpulling this together. Best of luck to all on Saturday!! It'll be a day to remember.

[johnd]

Nice job Furlong
Hopefully we can nail a good race and a great day on Saturday
Anyone wanting updates during the day I'll try and post up some info here as we go along
Looks like ot could be a scorcher of a day!!

[DavidF]

Am I right in saying the finish is in Shillelagh, not Clonegal?

[johnd]

Yes, finishes in Shillelagh @ Parkview pub
The winners will probably come in 1/2 minutes either side of 2pm
We will likely finish sometime around 3:15pm
See you for a pint?

[BShaugh]

If anyone finds half of John's shoulder in the wicklow mts let us know?!

Looked nasty but the man kept battlin on for a great leg.

Looks like a top ten is on the cards all going well. Joy and Larry.motored along for great legs, frank nearly finished his soon

[frankb]

Great day, great event, great result and great organiser ..hats of to John Dempsey ...Oh captain my captain

[johnd]

Captain oh captain me eye!!

Racing 795, 5th (maybe 4th??), 8:28:48 finish time

Thanks everyone who ran today ye all did a fantastic job putting in a huge effort
We can be very proud of our days racing and a sub 8:30 finish in that heat is fantastic
35 teams started this morning including some of the biggest athletics clubs from around the country, a few mountain running specialist teams, and also a few orienteering clubs who run in the mountains every weekend anyway. And our little triathlon/mtb/whateveryouwant club came home 5th - unbelievable
no official results or times up yet but will likely be there tonight or tomorrow.
General consensus seems like there will be another team next year, I'd love to run but ye may find a new captain me thinks
Special thanks also to Larry Murphy of Tinryland AC who stepped in at a weeks notice and ran a stormer of a leg 4 for us, making up 3 places while he was at it

[Tom]

Next years captain will have Huge boots to fill. Unbelievable work by Dempsey every time I ran out of water there he was in the middle of no where bananas, gels and water in hand .and all after running his own leg and leaving part of his shoulder on the hills.

Great day out and great effort by all.

Count me in for next year.

Only problem now is that after finishing 4th pressure is on for a podium spot next year