Devil's Glen
| Author | Date | Message |
|---|---|---|
| Angus Tyner | Feb 11 2025, 4:28pm | I looked at the course route today. Storm Darragh brought down a lot of trees and there has been no clear up to date. A 300m stretch of the route nearest the waterfall is blocked by windblow. Dozens of trees. Of the rest of the route. 1 tree across the first loop and numerous (mainly small trees) trees across path along side river until you get to the main obstruction. In my opinion no reasonable bypass/detour. |
| John Bell | Feb 12 2025, 10:36pm | Thanks for the head up Angus. I will get put for a recce soon to see if we can figure out an alternative route, but sounds like it will need to skip the river loop. |
| John Bell | Mar 13 2025, 9:20pm | Thank you to all who have volunteered. We now have enough volunteers for this event. |
| Gareth Little | Mar 14 2025, 11:13am | Hi John, will there be a junior course or short course for this event? Thx |
| John Bell | Mar 17 2025, 9:18am | Hi Gareth, yes we will have a short course. It will be one of the loops and about 4k long. |
| Ruairí Flynn | Mar 17 2025, 2:32pm | Hi John, was out today and the red route by the river is still closed and full of blow downs. First loop (heaney) seems clear though. |
| John Bell | Mar 19 2025, 9:34pm | The event page has been updated with the new route that avoids the blocked lower river path. The Short / Junior route is the upper loop at 4k long. Reminder to please car pool as there is limited car parking in the forest and it will be shared with the general public. If the car park fills up please be considerate where you park so as to not cause an obstruction and listen to the marshals. |
| John Bell | Mar 19 2025, 10:01pm | Volunteers, I've sent you an email using your address on your profile. If you didn't get it you can get me on jbell@outlook.ie |
| Henny Brandsma | Mar 21 2025, 10:08pm | Hi John, didn't see it on the event page, but is there a early start for this race,. Cheers Henny |
| James Heggie | Mar 21 2025, 11:00pm | Hi just wondering if there will be an opportunity to collect end of year prize as I haven’t had a chance to get yet ? |
| James Heggie | Mar 21 2025, 11:03pm | Just wondering if there will be a chance to collect end of year prize as haven’t had a chance to collect yet ? |
| John Bell | Mar 22 2025, 11:32am | Early start will get going at 10:30 for those who expect to be +160% of the winning time. Please make sure to let us know when registering if you are taking the early start. |
| John Bell | Mar 22 2025, 11:33am | James, we should have end of league prizes available for collection. |
| Lillian Deegan | Mar 22 2025, 11:35am | Hi James, I’ll have the EoY items in the van. See me after you’ve signed in to race. Lillian |
| Shay Foody | Mar 22 2025, 3:43pm | Has anyone got space in a car going from anywhere in Dublin? Thanks, shayfoody AT gmail DOT com |
| Keelin Holmes | Mar 22 2025, 4:29pm | Hi is there an eircode for Devils Glen ? Thanks Keelin |
| John Bell | Mar 22 2025, 5:13pm | Google maps location on the event details page, or getting there details on the Coillte site: https://www.coillte.ie/site/the-devils-glen/ |
| Tom SOMMER | Mar 22 2025, 6:06pm | Hi, Same question as Shay. Looking for carpooling anywhere in Dublin, please text me 087 039 4600. Thanks a mil! Tom |
| John Bell | Mar 22 2025, 8:50pm | There are car pool some options at the bottom of the event details page. |
| Brendan Lawlor | Mar 23 2025, 1:42pm | Thanks to John and Peter Bell and their great team of volunteers for a lovely trail race this morning. The new route was just as challenging and beautiful as the previous route so well done on figuring that new route out. |
| Jeff Swords | Mar 23 2025, 5:20pm | Results up, any issues mail IMRAResults at Gmail dot com |
| John Bell | Mar 23 2025, 7:47pm | Thanks to team of volunteers for puttingbon today's tace in Devil's Glen. Thanks to Alistar and Jeff for getting the results up so quickly. All credit goes to Sean Forsyth for redesigning the course with the downed trees. Congratulations to the winners today, on thr long course Barry Minnock, Niamh Brophy, and short course Eoghan O'Reilly and Layla Dixon. Next Trail League race is Carrikgollogan on 30th April. See you there. |
| Caoimhin MacMaolain | Mar 24 2025, 10:49am | Thanks very much John, Peter, Sean and all of the volunteers for organising such a great race at Devil's Glen. To have carved that course out of an area where so many trees are down and river access denied was some achievement. |
| Keelin Holmes | Mar 24 2025, 5:24pm | Thank you everyone for a great event yesterday! It was the first race my children took part it, so lots of excitement! They were mad for the tea and ssmbos after and Cormac was delighted with his raffle prize! Thanks Keelin, Cormac , Roisin and Pearse ! |
| Barry Minnock | Mar 25 2025, 9:33am | Just to echo words of thanks. I was wondering why we took the upper path - on running the lower path during cool-down it became clear. So much destruction. Excellent route, excellent organisation, great to have trail races as part of calendar. Top quality event - thank you John & Co. |
