Ballycrystal run

[BShaugh]

Paul browne and myself thinking of doing mt leinster this thursday afternoon if weather is middling.
Nice and steady to the top if anyone else fancies it

[Orls]

Hi, what time on Thursday and where is the starting point? How many kms/how long will it take?

Cheers
Orla

[DavidC]

I'll leave it to Shaughs to confirm but I'm guessing this is the route... http://www.imra.ie/events/view/id/949/

[BShaugh]

Hi, what time on Thursday and where is the starting point? How many kms/how long will it take?

Cheers
Orla

Sorry Orla, week went away from me and never got going.

Starting point is here

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=52.5 ... 9,,0,10.58

It's about 14km depending on how far you go up obviously but lovely running around here and great views. How long? Depends how much you like running up the side of mountains but about 80-90 minutes. It's pretty much 7km straight up with not much flat, helps to run in trail shoes definitly on the way down. Gibbet hill is also a great place to run around (maybe some could put up the google map of the start point) and a good starting place to ease into hill running.

[Orls]

Hi, thanks for these replies and apologies for only replying now. I drove up to Ballycrystal today and it looks amazing up there. Let me know if/when anyone is going again and I'll try my best to tag along. Dena/Joy/anyone - would you fancy this one morning maybe??

[Dena]

There's actually a few of organizing this run over the next week or so, ill let u know the details

[colm mc grath]

Hi dena, if its early in the am or late in the pm let me know. Sounds like a very tough course.Thanks

[Dena]

Right guys a few of us decided to try pin down a date for this, and thinking the first sat after Xmas it's the 29th dec early morning ish.

Hopefully we can get a good crowd, what better way for everyone to catch up after Xmas (and burn off some of them mince pies)

For those who haven't done the route, there's no denying it is a toughie but very runnable and the view at the top is well worth the effort.

[t redmond]

Sounds good Dena. Count Fin and me in. Looking forward to it.

[colm mc grath]

Sounds great Dena, count me in even though it will be a struggle for me.