Half-marathon also-rans get to share the roads with the buses – The Irish Times

It’s hard not to feel a bit shiftless on a Sunday like that when you deem yourself to be worn out from hammering remote control buttons to take you from TG4’s coverage of the National League finals to Virgin Media’s broadcast of the second game of our women’s Six Nations campaign and back again.

Just when you’re feeling a touch dynamic from all this couch-bound exertion, up pops a report on the Six One News about the inaugural Dublin City Half Marathon when 12,000 competitors were given just 3½ hours to cover 21.1km. Most of us would do well do accomplish that feat in a taxi in city centre traffic, even on a Sunday.

And if they were a minute over the limit they’d be running against buses, cars and, worse, e-bikes,…

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