Safety and environment
In an emergency
999 or 112
The emergency numbers in Northern Ireland. Ask for the police, then mountain rescue.
The event works with the Mourne Mountain Rescue Team.
Mountain weather
These are proper mountains and conditions on the tops can be very different from the town at the start. Check the mountain forecast before you travel and again on race morning, and pack for the worst you could meet on the hill.
Cup free
No disposable cups at any aid station or at the finish. Every runner must carry a collapsible cup: it is on the mandatory kit list.
Race rules
Stop and help any runner in difficulty: you'll never be penalised, and we'll extend your cut-offs. Race rules and penalties
Read our safety, health and wellbeing and environmental protection policies before race day. They include our full hazard and habitat impact controls.
If you stop
Never leave the course without telling us. Read the withdrawing policy before race day.
Litter
Dropping litter anywhere on the course means disqualification. It is enforced. Carry everything out with you.
£5 of every entry goes to Mourne Heritage Trust for upland path repair in the Mournes.
Giving back to the Mournes
The paths that make the Mournes so special to run are fragile. Thousands of boots and running shoes every year, combined with heavy rain on steep granite slopes, wash away the surface and turn narrow tracks into wide, eroded scars.
Once the vegetation goes, the thin mountain soil and peat beneath it follow, damaging the heather and bog habitats that make these hills what they are, and leaving the paths rougher and harder to use for everyone.
Repairing upland paths is slow, skilled work, mostly done by hand with stone carried onto the hill, so it costs far more than people expect. Mourne Heritage Trust’s path team and volunteers do this work across the Mournes, all year round and in all weathers.
We race on these paths, so we want to help look after them.