Preview of the Annerville 10 km road race...
This 10 km road race is organised on an annual basis by Clonmel Athletic Club. Located in South Tipperary, it's within easy access of a lot of runners from the surrounding counties. It is 11 miles / 17 kms from the M8 Cork to Dublin motorway.
The two part map below shows where everything is...
Directions...Coming from Cork / Limierck / M8 motorway..If you are coming from the west, you follow the signs for Waterford (N24) and take the relief road that goes around to the north of the town. Go through the Cashel roundabout and keep going east. As you approach the next roundabout, you'll see a sign showing Fethard to the left and Town Centre to the right....
Follow the signs for the town centre and take the 3rd exit on the Fethard Road Roundabout...
Just keep following this road and soon, it changes to Dillon St. Eventually, you come to a road junction straight across from Clonmel Vocational School (behind the trees!) which is the race HQ...
Parking is available 300m away. Left at the junction and then straight away, a right...
The Suirside car park is about one hundred metres up this road on the left...
Directions coming from Waterford / Kilkenny.....If you are approaching from the east on the N24, stay left at the first roundabout and follow the signs for Town Centre and Clonmel.
You then drive through the next roundabout, past the Lidl store, past Dunnes Stores, through the roundabout at the Showgrounds Shopping Centre.........i.e. keep going straight. As as you begin to enter a more built up area with older style buildings, you turn left at the Clonmel Veterinary Clinic...
As per the earlier photo, parking is available up the road about 100m on the left.
Directions from Dungarvan......If you are approaching Clonmel on the R671 from the south-east, you will come to the Dungarvan Roundabout...
Keep going until you come to the next roundabout and take a left there...
You cross over a bridge and about 50 metres further on, you'll see the entrance to the car park on the right.
The race course itself......
The race starts just outside the vocational school...
After 300m, you pass the Showgrounds Shopping Centre...
At about 800m, you pass the local Lidl store on Davis Road. As you can see, the course is dead flat and stays like this for at least the next 1.5 miles.
After 0.7 miles, you go through another roundabout...
...and then another one at 1.3 miles...
At the next roundabout at around 1.9 miles, you turn right...
Now the course changes completely as you leave the traffic behind and run on quiet roads. The sign below near the two mile mark shows whats ahead...
....and it's the first 'hill' ;o) .....a humpback bridge over the River Suir....
From the middle of Sir Thomas's Bridge, there is a great view of the surrounding countryside. You can just make out the next bridge ahead...
Devine's bridge is only about 200m beyond the first one. You turn right here and head back in towards the town.
Along this section, you come across the first of two real hills along the course. The road climbs gradually, flattens out and then climbs again...
At about 3.6 miles, the road flattens out and pretty soon, the gradual descent begins...
At about 4.3 miles, the road begin to level out as you reach the roundabout near the Loreto Convent...
......with Bernie Macs Pub on the second bend, a usual spot for a water station.
After this, the second real climb begins at 4.8 miles.......
.......and lasts until the Dungarvan Roundabout at 5.3 miles where you turn right...
As you head back in towards the town, the road drops gently before rising again as you cross over Workshop Bridge at 5.5 miles...
At 5.7 miles, you turn right at the next junction and you can see the long finishing straight ahead. In the distance, you can see the spire of St.Mary's Church which is just beyond the 6 mile mark.
Nearly there......St.Mary's Church just after the 6 mile mark with the finish line in sight...
From the finish line, it's only a few hundred metres back to Race HQ.
Overall......A reasonable course with two hilly sections. Plenty of flat and fast sections as well....especially the run in towards the finish line. A race with a bit of everything....town and country......flat and hilly. Expect a reasonable time.
 |
| Race HQ |
