The second edition of the Up & Over Challenge will be help on Saturday April 14th with start & finish at Lahardane village in North Mayo. “The Nephin Up and Over Challenge is a top class open mountain running event” says Rachel Nolan from Rachel’s Irish Adventures and Female record…
It is UTMB Weekend!!! For those who do not know yet, UTMB (Ultra Trail Mont Blanc) is on this weekend. On Friday the 1st of September, 2000 participant will start at 5pm to compete in one of the toughest trail race in the world: approximately 166 kilometres (103 mi) around the…
The 4th edition of the ‘Transylvania One Hundred’ was held on the 20th of May. This was the 4th edition of this iconic race starts and finishes at Dracula’s Castle in Bran, Romania… A few Irish went to Romania and these are the various reports: Transylvania 50km – Race report by…
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…
This is the season where the Irish travel abroad to run or experience trail running races and destinations around Europe and beyond. At TrailRunningIreland.com we will try to bring a few reports and experiences from Irish runners and partners. To start the series, we are going to the Canary, in La…
In the top right corner of Co. Louth, in Ireland’s Ancient East, lies the Cooley Peninsula. It’s relatively small area, but perfect for trail runners as it’s criss-crossed with trails and not crossed by any more roads than a runner needs to give them a good selection of routes and…
The Irish Mountain Running Association’s popular Maurice Mullins Ultra and Trail took place Saturday March 25th. I was delighted to be one of the over 400 athletes who took part in the race, aptly renamed in honour of its original director, the late Maurice Mullins. The long course was 51k…
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
Sometime at the end of this month, or early next, Gary “Laz” Cantrell will light up his cigarette to signal the departure of one of the toughest race in the world : the Barkley. The Barkley is an ultra marathon (120 miles/ 160km – 54,000feet / 16,000m positive climb)…
Liam Vines, ART O’NEILL 2016 Winner Race report by Liam Vines The difference a year makes The last race report I did was this race last year and if you find it you will see that things didn’t go to plan. Now I went on to have an amazing year…