• Number collection for the marathon and half-marathon will open at 7.00am at St. Mels College in Longford.
• The marathon will start and finish on Main Street near the Longford Arms Hotel on Sunday morning.
• First off will be the walkers in the full marathon who will set off at 8.30am.
• The particpants in the Ultra Marathon who will start at 8.30am.
• The wheelchair participants will start at 9.45am from the same location.
• The runners in the full marathon and all participants in the half-marathon will start at 10.00am on Sunday morning.
• The course will be well marked and each mile will be posted. Regular Water stations, every 3 miles, will be available along the way. We have some very ambitious predicted times from some of our entrants, and if these hold true, then we should see our leading marathon runners coming back into town shortly after 1.00pm. We would hope that everybody will be home and finished by approximately 4.00pm on Sunday afternoon.
Longford Sports and Leisure Complex at the Mall have kindly offered free shower facilities to all finishers in the race. Just bring your race number with you and the nice guys atwww.longfordsportsandleisure.ie will look after you.
• Hopefully the weather on the day will be good (but not too good!) and spectators will be able to come out and cheer the runners on. We hope to have entertainment courtesy of local musicians on the day to entertain runners and spectators alike.
Our Post race party this year will take place from 9.30pm on Sunday night in the Tally Ho Bar in New Street. Join us for traditional Irish Music and craic, compare your PBs, aches and pains, injuries and medals.