Author: Phil Hodge

B&I Junior Mountain Running Championship 2024

This year’s British & Irish Junior Mountain Running Championships (also the Junior Home International) took place on Saturday 14 September in Laragh, County Wicklow.  The course offered a challenging route for participants, with bit...

A Tale Of Two Cities

NIMRA Juniors at U18 International Mountain Running Cup Last raced in the 2013 Tour de France, Semnoz less than an hour from the center of Annecy, France was to be the destination of the...

Snow stayed away for U18 Trial on Croob

Seventeen talented junior athletes travelled to Slieve Croob for the U18 Trial, to select the team for the International in Saluzzo, Italy on the 25th June. Last year saw the unusual format of a...

B&I U17 & U20 Championships – Marshall request

As you are no doubt aware, NIMRA have the privilege of hosting the above Championship, this coming weekend, Saturday 4th September. Race Venue – Happy Valley Carpark – at base of Slieves Meelbeg and...

The warning was Yellow on Meelbeg

From Yellow warnings of Thunder & Lightning, changing to warnings about rain, the Met office just couldn’t make up its mind. Once the race organisers had contented themselves, that neither Thunder & Lightning, strong...