FAQ
You can choose to enter any wave. If you want to compete for an overall winner or a category prize, you must enter Wave 1 when you sign up for this event.
We have an exciting new addition in 2024, a walkers wave! Join your fellow walkers up on the hill and take in the beautiful Wicklow mountains.
We cannot facilitate any wave changes after you have entered this event, so please make sure to sign up for your preferred wave when you enter. If your preferred wave is sold out, it will no longer be visible online, and you must choose an alternative wave.
If the Wave 1 wave has sold out online and you are an elite runner wishing to compete in this event, please email us at info@gaelforceevents.com and we will do our best to accommodate you. Guide time: A sub-50-minute 10k trail run or 40-minute 10k road run.
Competitors must be 16 years of age or over on event day. Competitors aged 16 & 17 must have a signed parent or guardian consent form to take part. Please download & complete this form and email it back to us or bring it to our information desk on event day.
On-the-day registration is sometimes available for this event, although it is much better value to enter in advance!
If you still wish to enter on the day we will have a card machine available for payments.
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If you want to compete for an overall winner or a category prize, you must enter Wave 1 when you sign up for this event. Or be in the first start with Wave 1 on the day of the event.
Registration for this event is by post.
Your Race Number will be posted out 9 days before the event takes place. Please make sure that we have your correct postal address. Your race number will also be sent by text to your phone and published on our website in the days before the event.
International competitors and late entrants can collect their Race Number at the information desk on the day.
If your Race Number doesn’t arrive, don’t worry, you can collect one at the information desk on the day of the event.
There is no cut off time for this event. The course will be closed 2 hours 30 minutes after the last wave departs.
You may still finish the race after the course has been closed, but please note you will not be covered by Gaelforce Event insurance and some event facilities may be closed.
All entry fees are non-refundable and non-transferable. This includes transfers to other years, events or competitors. Please make sure that you can commit to both the event and the training before you enter one of our events. Read our Booking Terms & Conditions.
Announcements of any cancellation/postponement in advance will be emailed to the address you provided when you entered the event. Please ensure that you have provided your correct email address. Notice will also be posted on this website and on our social media.
Gaelforce Events, at its sole discretion may delay, modify, or cancel this event if conditions or natural or man-made emergencies make administering the event unreasonably difficult or unsafe.
“Emergency" is defined as any event beyond our control, including but not limited to high wind, extreme rain or hail, hurricane, tornado, earthquake, flood, acts of terrorism, fire, threatened or actual strike, labour difficulty or work stoppage, insurrection, war, public disaster, and unavoidable casualty. In the event of a delay, modification, or cancellation of this event as described in this paragraph, participants will not be entitled to a refund of their entry fee, or any other costs incurred in connection with this event.