By Fred Verdier “Fred, you there?”… This was Francesco’s message on messenger that popped up on my account mid May this year… Francesco is our contact at Soul Running in Italy. Over the past few months, he has been messaging me, with invitations to help promote trail running destinations and…
Chatting with Adam Chase. By Cindy Doyle. With one of those names that seems to tie into what they do (think Usain Bolt, Bill Medley, William Wordsworth…), Adam Chase has had a long and fruitful love affair with trail running which has led him to race, pace and run all…
Meeting Metzler: Picking Brian’s Brain. By Cindy Doyle. Living in beautiful Boulder, Colorado, Brian Metzler is a veteran of running journalism, a veritable mine of information. He’s also a really nice guy, down to earth and very friendly, so meeting Metzler was a really pleasant experience. He’s made a living…
By Alicia Christofi-Walshe Ticknock Tick-Tock isn’t a run-of-the-mill trail race. It’s a 12-stage race consisting of 12 x 6.5 km loops with 200m height gain per loop. The approximate total distance covered is 75k with 2,400m of height gain. On the morning of the 28th of May I stepped up…
Earlier this year, Kristin from Decathlon got in touch again asking if TrailRunningIreland.com would be happy to run another promotional campaign. This time, she asked what would be the essential gear that trail runners would need in Ireland. After a bit of consideration, we shortlisted three pieces of gear that we…
Falling Hurts! So, all you trail runners out there – I’ve often heard that you’re not considered a ‘proper’ trail runner until you have had some gnarly falls with gruesome injuries to show for it!! Falling hurts! It really does!! Am I a proper trail runner now?? 😀 When I…
Along with approximately 600 other runners, Cindy from GoWild.ie has been busily readying herself for the Debra Ireland Wicklow Mountains Half Marathon & 11K races this coming Sunday, 5th March. Today she shares one of her own blog pieces: Á la TodayFM’s Dermot & Dave, I’ve got a bit of…
IMRA (Ireland’s Mountain Running Association) has released its 2017 race schedule with the first event taking place on Sunday the 15th of January ‘Howth Winter’. Check below the full calendar for 2017. For further info on each race click on the image below, or to https://www.imra.ie/events/?year=2017
Eighteen Great Danes on tour – Wicklow trail running weekend by Charlotte Litta Jensen Eighteen Great Danes on tour – Wicklow trail running weekend A team of running friends (club HGATM grp 4) from the city of Næstved, Denmark went away for the weekend, which we had long looked forward…
In early May 2016, Paul Daly, Paul Croke andDave Ringrose ran the length of the Burren Way: 80km through County Clare with the lunar landscape of the Burren and the majestic Cliffs of Moher along the Wild Atlantic Way. This is Paul Daly’s account of the journey: “Paul Croke…
