Northern Ireland Mountain Running Association Blog

British Championship 2023: The Mourne Marauder

The Mourne Marauder This year Northern Ireland Mountain Running Association British Championship race will start in Donard Park, Newcastle Co. Down on the 25th March 2023. It will visit Slieve Donard Summit, Chimney Rock...

NIMRA CHAMPIONSHIP 2023

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

WMRA Masters Championships 2022 Report

WMRA Masters Championships 2022 Report

21st World Masters Mountain Running Championships, Comeragh Mountains, Clonmel, Co Tipperary 3rd September. A number of NIMRA runners made the journey to Clonmel to compete in this great event.  Stand out results were Jim Patterson who...

Bronze Sunset in Ambleside

Photos courtesy of Dave Woodhead Back to Ambleside two years in a row, though last year was for the scaled back Home Countries International U18. No complaints from us, Duncan Richards puts on a...

Mourne Mountain Marathon Volunteer Request

This year’s event is rapidly approaching and once again we are looking to the mountain runningcommunity to help us out. We could do with volunteers to help at the event centre on Saturday morningand...

N.I. & Ulster U20 & U17 Team Selection

NIMRA would like to congratulate the following athletes on their selection to represent N.I. & Ulster at the U20 & U17 British & Irish Mountian Running Championship being held this Saturday, 3rd Sept in Ambleside,...

Scrabo Race Report

The Scrabo Hill Race hosted by Ballydrain Harriers AC returned for it’s 2nd year on Thursday 18th August. The race is one of the short distance category events in the 2022 NIMRA championship. Despite...

Alice and Adam, Hard as Flint!!

A settled forecast bode well for this year’s Seven Sevens and it was correct for we enjoyed one of thebest days ever on the course. The ground was dry following a month of below...

International Snowdon Race 2022 Report

We knew it was going to be hot. In the days leading up to race weekend, the news had been full of dire warnings about the impending heatwave… “a danger to life” warned the...