On 6th October, Mark King, Dominic McInerney and Stephen Wallace successfully completed a clockwise Denis Rankin Round in a time of 20 hours 55 minutes.
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2018 Member’s Presentation
The annual member’s presentation took place at last weekend’s Mourne Mountain Marathon. The certificates were presented by Madeline Rankin.
Alex Kendall’s Round Report
On the way to Northern Ireland for work, I was looking up possible long running routes for a day off I had two and a half weeks later. I only then came across the Denis Rankin round, and the story of Denis Rankin himself. I’m amazed it’s not more known about in England, but hopefully, it will be in time. I had been to the Mournes once before and had run up Slieve Donard in the mist, so didn’t really know the route at all. However, it looked inspired, and since the only real downside was the chance of failure, I planned to give it a go. Continue reading
Rankin Round recap: Linda O’Connor
Its 2:45 am and the Slieve Donard carpark is practically empty as Nigel, Denis, Robbie & I line up under the arch and set off on our merry way. It’s a beautiful night, the temperature is much warmer than expected and the visibility is excellent. As we went up the Slieve Donard path, I was thinking to myself how long it had been since I had done a 24-hour event. The banter was good as we chit chatted and remarked how obsessed we had gotten with the weather over the past few weeks. This night was to be cold per the weather forecast but that wasn’t to be the case. Off came my jacket after 30 minutes and there it would stay until the last 2 hours or so. Indeed we were blessed with the weather. Continue reading
New Female Record by Karina Jonina
On Sunday 5th August, Karina set off on a clockwise round and lowered the existing female record by 4 minutes.
