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Entries finally opened for the inaugural Achill Mountain Marathon. Held over the first weekend of May, the event will follow a traditional mountain marathon format in which participants (solo or teams of two) navigate their way around a two-day course on Achill Island. The midway camp will be in the same location as the start location therefore removing the need to carry your tent, sleeping bag and food each day. At the overnight camp on the Saturday night there is planned a marquee with hot food and traditional music.
There will be the usual Elite, B and C classes, but the solo option is only open to elite runners. Distances have not been confirmed for each class yet, but I would expect them to be slightly longer the Mourne Mountain Marathon, only due to the fact that you do not have to carry over night gear – or am I just hoping for this 
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February 2nd, 2010 | 
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Nice to see a new event as well of a mountain marathon format in a great part of Ireland. Shame I won’t make it this year, but if the Irish economy picks up, I’ll be back with avengance! Keep up the good work guys.
I agree….Achill is such an amazing location that it should make for a great event. My only concern is the map scale, as the only ‘current’ OS scale for the island is 1:50000. I think the planner may have a bit of a nightmare in tying to make the courses navigationally challenging. The only plus thing is with you not being here, I’m guaranteed to move up a place in the results.
Hopefully the Irish economy does pick up and we’ll see you soon.