Event Information
Date: 17 Mar 2023
Time: 11:30 am
Venue: Tubbercurry Co Sligo
One of the longest ‘running’ 10k races in Ireland:
Annual fundraiser for local South Sligo AC club development
2023 March 17 St Patrick’s Day Bank Holiday Friday
Race HQ St Brigid’s Hall Wolf Tone Square – also post race refreshments and prizegiving.
10k (over 16s ) and 5k – one lap
Separate courses
Starting in Teeling Street and finishing in Wolf Tone Square.
5k start 12 noon, 10k at 12:15
Entry https://www.njuko.net/tubber23/select_competition
€300 CASH PRIZE FOR NEW COURSE RECORD – currently 30:15 (1997) set by Jamie Lewis Swansea Harriers.
Race starter guest is Danny McDaid: Irish Olympian Munich 1972, Montreal 1976; 4 time National marathon champion, PB 2:13, competed 9 times for Ireland in World Cross country championships.
AND winner of the first Tubbercurry St Patrick’s Day 10k.
An ideal race in preparation for National 10k April 16 Phoenix Park four weeks later – similar terrain profile.
50th anniversary : commemorative t-shirt for first 300 entries
