This year saw the inaugural IMRA Ulster Championship take place. A joint venture between NIMRA and IMRA taking in races from Mournes in County Down to Glenariffe in County Antrim through County Tyrone to...

The Northern Ireland Mountain Running Association organises the new 2025 12 race championship, with the best 7 races to count, with at least one race to be completed at each distance and 4 others...

Welcome to our ninth edition of the monthly NIMRA newsletter ‘The Mountain Runner’, and we are pleased to show off the September 2024 edition updating you with any news or highlights from the previous...

Last weekend (13-15th September), the world’s top master mountain runners converged on Canfranc, Spain, for the 2024 World Masters Mountain Running Championship. This year’s event was truly historic, marking the first time in the...

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...

Ah! The Ben. That iconic race up and down Ben Nevis. The story goes that… “In 1895 when William Swan, a Fort William barber, set off on the first recorded timed ascent and descent...

The NI/Ulster team has been announced for the upcoming British & Irish U17 and U20 championships being held in Wicklow on the 14th September. This team was selected at the trial of the 24th...

Welcome to our eighth edition of the monthly NIMRA newsletter ‘The Mountain Runner’, and we are pleased to show off the August 2024 edition updating you with any news or highlights from the previous...

Thursday 15th August saw 91 runners descend on Scrabo country park for the last short distance NIMRA race of the season. Despite persistent rain in the morning, the evening provided dry and warm racing...