The Wicklow Round is the Republic of Ireland’s equivalent of the Charlie Ramsay Round, encompassing 26 hills, with 6000m climb, over 100 + km in under 24 hours. It was first completed in 2009, with about 25 completions since then (https://www.imra.ie/wicklowround/).
As part of my on-going ‘tick-the-boxes-in-Ireland-before-re-emigrating’ mission, I completed the round at the weekend, in 21h 06 minutes. As I went around the first 8 hours I debated whether it was dominated by ‘fog and bog’ or ‘clag and peat-hag’. The sky cleared after the highest point (Lugnaquilla, 925m) making for a lovely day of running, trotting, shuffling, walking and crawling.
Another good day out. If anybody fancies it, I’d recommend doing it before mid June as the ferns grow like fiends this time of year.
John Ryan