Dominic Moore the official starter for annual 10k race in Tipperary

Above: Kevin Moore, Mullingar Harriers, promoting this year's Coillte 10k to be run for the 40th consecutive year in Dundrum next Wednesday, July 2 at 8pm.The Dundrum-born athlete won the overall race three times in the Dundrum colours before his transfer to the club in Westmeath, where he now resides

Next Wednesday, July 2 at 8pm, the Coillte 10k Road Race in Dundrum will be run for the 40th consecutive year by the local Dundrum Athletics Club.

The race, which started as part of a long local weekend festival, and which was so popular back in the 80s, is still going strong 40 years later.

This year’s official race starter is Dominic Moore. The Rosmult man, who competed with his native Upperchurch, Moyne and Dundrum in his day, has maintained his connection with the race over the years through his donation of the Tim Crowe trophy for the first Tipperary athlete over the finish line.

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Dominic finished third in the very first 10k back in 1986, so forty years later it is appropriate that he should blow the whistle to set the athletes on their way.

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Race HQ is Dundrum Community Hall, Eircode E34 EY28, where the club has its athletics facilities. Race numbers and the souvenir towel for all online entrants can be collected there on the evening of the race. The race HQ is only 200 metres from the start and finish lines.

For an excellent guided tour of the course, road by road, Google the Running in Munster Ireland Website.

The race also incorporates a 5k for juniors (age between 13 years old on the day of the race and 19 years or under on December 31 2025).

There are prizes in every category from senior to over 70 years for both men and women, with the Masters categories at the standard five-year intervals from Over 40 years plus.

For Tipperary athletes there is the added incentive of the Tim Crowe Memorial trophy (kindly donated by Dominic Moore) for the first Tipperary athlete to finish the 10k.

The race will be run over the usual flat, two-lap circuit, with the lap consisting of a series of five straights, where one or two records are broken every year.

Tanzanian international Daniel Gidumbanda’s incredible time of 29:45, the course record for the 10k, has stood since 1997.