Hill and Dale Series 2025

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Hill and Dale Series 2025

Race results for each race will be available on Webscorer after the race finishes (and live subject to internet connection):

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Series Results will be updated after each race available here:

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Registration now open!

Note: No payment on night this year – all entries via SiEntries. Please read all instructions.

To take part in the 2025 H&D Series you must be registered with SiEntries. You will be issued with a number for the series. Your race number can be collected at your first race and must be retained for the 2025 series.

Please Do Not Fix numbers to shorts – Please attach to chest – numbers on shorts are difficult to scan and very inconsiderate to person scanning – persistent offenders will be disqualified. Continue reading

Hill & Dales 2025 – Race 5 – Hen & Cock Results, Report and Photos

History rewritten on an historic day
Hill & Dale Race 5 – Hen & Cock by Bogusboy
This week, on the historic occasion of the election of the 267th Pope (Leo XIV) and the 80th Anniversary of VE Day, Hen & Cock made a much anticipated and welcome return to the Hill & Dale calendar since it was ‘retired’ a number of years back. The reason for this was the logistical nightmare of managing parking for those volunteering and those taking part. Determined to resurrect this iconic race, Messers Grant and McVeigh sought a bespoke solution. After a brief conclave, there was white smoke (they used McVeigh and McCann’s hair in the fire!) and a field able to accommodate the ever-increasing Hill & Dale numbers was sourced. The Race Directors and the Race Committee would like to thank Mary Savage for her generosity in granting permission that enabled us to take the traffic off the road and ensure that the race could reclaim its rightful place in the fixture list. Listening to the chatter after the race, the decision to bring the race back was a positive one as people seemed to enjoy it – undoubtedly this was aided by exceptionally good weather on the night.

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Hill & Dales 2025 – Race 4 – Binnian Results, Report and Photos

52 weeks later, they are still number one!

By the other man on the Hill

One year on from the last Hill and Dale outing and a lot has changed. As runners made their way to the car park to enter word was spreading that the Gondola project had been stopped. The Prophet fresh from his heart transplant 10 weeks earlier decided as a protest he would walk to the finish line at the top of Binnian. With his business partner Francie McAlinden fresh back from a reconnaissance mission in Switzerland the pair are confident that they could build it cheaper, faster and stronger and come in well under budget. Continue reading

Hill & Dales 2025 – Race 3 – Slieve Martin Results, Report and Photos

Slieve Martin Report
Thursday past saw the race action head to Rostrevor for the Slieve Martin race. Big changes this year as race directors Hicks and McConville made the bold decision to reverse the direction of the race for the first time ever. Judging by the positive feedback afterwards this proved a welcome change as runners climbed to the summit on the hard stone path before descending on the softer grass of the open mountain. However, after heavy rainfall earlier in the week this left conditions under foot treacherous in places.

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Hill & Dales 2025 – Race 2 – Tollymore Results, Report and Photos

Cowboys and ‘Barrel’ Racers descend after three (not) wise men and a Prophet leave their mark in Tollymore.

In the famous words of Whitesnake, “here I go again …..”; the second race of the Hill and Dale series, which just seems to be growing exponentially (or getting bigger and bigger in old money!)  2024 witnessed 295 avid Hill and Dale runners complete the course with an increase of 107 more “lunatics” in 2025 – a record 402 took to the line for a trip around Tollymore and a jaunt up a mountain with no name. At the finish, a few names were suggested for the aforementioned hill, but none could be printed.   Continue reading

Hill & Dales 2025 – Race 1 – Castlewellan Results, Report and Photos

Race 1 – The McVeigh Classic

Hill and Dale Series 2025

By GPT McChat

A fast start...

A fast start…

A Stormy Start… With a Glorious Finish!

Race 1 of the Hill and Dale Series is always a highly anticipated event – a sure sign that spring has truly sprung – and this year’s opener, The McVeigh Classic, was no different… though the weather had other plans at first! Continue reading