Team Geared Up

Editor: Please welcome our new guest blogger! Irish Ultra Marathon runner Aisling Coppinger!

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - Yesterday saw the running of the Connemara Half, Full and Ultra Marathon and it was my 3rd time at the Ultra. It’s a race I’ve absolutely loved from start to finish! All 39.3 miles of it! It’s a case of letting the mind wander off and the legs just follow. Scenery wise it’s unmatched, I haven’t travelled far but it’s right up there with the Alps for levels of breath-taking-ness!

If nothing else, I’m consistent as I finish every year barrelling in the last couple of miles to make a time of about 5 and half hours. I make a point of saying hi to anyone I pass along the way and this helps the miles fly by and is really in the spirit of this event.

There was about 3000 people entered for the half which would make it the biggest half marathon in this country. The race is exceptionally well organised by Ray O’ Connor and goes without a hitch every year, manned by tonnes of eager volunteers. By the way, Ray is heading to the desert in 2009 for the world famous Marathon des Sables.; which will give him something else to think about that Spring other than organising the ”World’s Most Spectacular Marathon”.