**Wicklow Way Race**
Forum Messages
| Author | Date | Message |
|---|---|---|
| Rex Brillantes | Mar 16 2025, 4:05pm | Hi. Are results can be use for UTMB RACES? Just asking because cannot find it in my trail results UTMB index. Thank you |
| Lillian Deegan | Mar 22 2025, 11:38am | Hi Rex, Pól O’Murchu is due to upload to the UTMB site. Feel free to check back in again if you don’t see them in a week or so. Lillian |
| Alex Lee | Mar 29 2025, 10:54pm | Hi, when will purchase be possible for this event? |
| Lillian Deegan | Mar 29 2025, 11:03pm | Hello Alex, Entries will open about a month or so in advance of race night. I’ve a few odd bits to tidy up on the event page. I hope to reach on all that jazz in the next week ish. Keep an eye out for updates on here. Thanks, Lillian |
| Paul Flynn | Apr 1 2025, 12:46pm | Hi Lillian, For those of us planning our summer holidays around this race, is the July 18th date set in stone? Thanks, Paul |
| Lillian Deegan | Apr 1 2025, 5:28pm | Hello Paul, I know of no issues around a need to review the date. Saying this in the hope I have the various permits signed off on for July 18th this year. Good luck making the decision for your best kind of downtime :) Lillian |
| Paul Melville | May 20 2025, 12:51pm | Hi, Was just wondering whether this will be any transport available for this event? It appears in the past people have organized mini buses from start/finish. |
| Lillian Deegan | May 20 2025, 1:39pm | Hello Paul, Yep, a bus from Marlay Park will likely be organised to run down to the Clonegal start line. I’ve been really really lucky in recent year’s with my deputy RD taking charge of the prep for this aspect of the event. So… Afternoon IMRA folk, Thanks a lot to those who have hopped in already to help on this 80 miler. Fair play guys! Anyone fancy taking on DRD for this gig. I can promise the 20 odd hours + of racing will fly by ultra fast. And with thanks to Joe O’Leary at Lauragh on the Beara last Friday night, I’m gonna ask the money man at National can I buy tonnes and tonnes of incense sticks for Avril & Mick H’s aid stops They work an absolute treat keeping the midges away off. |
| Michael McSweeney | May 20 2025, 2:06pm | Ah Lillian, They didn't have the incense burning to keep away the midge. That was just a secondary benefit. ;-) |
| Lillian Deegan | May 20 2025, 11:09pm | Oh now Michael, the whiff took my breath away leaving me speechless for a bit. I kid you not :) So WW Race day hopefuls, the race page has been updated. • The shop will open on June 4th and close on July 4th. • We have an extra ask in here this year on Support Runners - a need for them to be IMRA members for insurance purposes. Along with mention of any participant who takes a support runner from Glendalough onwards not being in contention for a prize. I’ll get other odd bits ‘n bobs posted in the coming weeks. Something to consider for the immediate - if you are looking for a nice handy last long race jaunt, the Tucker is a great option. The shop for GTT is open at the mo and will close in a few days. Once it’s closed, it’s closed. Trackers and the like need to be finalised ahead of event day by the RD and his team. All the best with your race prep for July 18th folks. Lillian (& my silent DRD for now) |
| Eamonn Hodge | May 21 2025, 2:21pm | Hi Lillian, Is it still a 9pm start even though it's in the summer? I'm hoping to be able to enter this year. Eamonn |
| Lillian Deegan | May 22 2025, 1:18pm | Hola Eamonn, Yep, gun time of 21h it is for sure. Main reason would be due to Marlay Park closure times along with me not wishing to have our volunteers drive home feeling whacked akin to the runners with 80 milers in their legs. Having an 18h course closure time feels more reasonable I’d be thinking. It’s been a good few year’s since we’ve had the midnight gun time. Back then we used to get a special dispensation from the park rangers for our after hours needs kinda jazz. These days getting special allowances in odd spots feels like a trickier ‘n trickier business. Even last year with that the film crew on site same time as us, made our access and exiting permissions a tad difficult for our helpers. I’m all about keeping everything as simple as I can atall for all of us. It’s great to hear you are looking to give the south/north route another rattle - whoop whoop! |
| Lillian Deegan | Yesterday, 1:45pm | I see we’ve got ourselves a DRD for this one - thank you very much Conor ;) We’ll got down to the big prep jazz in short. Aideen B - great to have you about the volunteer team too - thx a mil. Our shop opens for entry on June 4th at 9am and will close on July 4th at 18h. As far as I know for now, we’ve only one major diversion on the race route ATM. When up about the Mucklagh area a few weeks back, the 2 forestry harvesting site notices said works were due to complete at the end of May. I’ll tip back up over the next two weeks to be sure. Rowan at Primal Tracking reviewed the race route with me this week and I’ll stick it up here once I’m sure the forestry works about Mucklagh are complete. And lastly for the mo - Conor and I will look at transport options from Marlay Park for the Clonegal start mat to update on here in a bit. Keep an eye out for news over the coming week's. Enjoy the long weekend everyone. |
| Mick Hanney | Yesterday, 7:18pm | Mucklagh diversion still in place. I spoke to a guy there and he suggested they should be out of there in a week or so. I'll update here. |
