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2022 Easter Festival entries open!!
We are delighted to announce that entries are now OPEN for the 2022 IQEQ Isle of Man Easter Festival of Running! After two blank years we are excited to begin the countdown to what we believe will be a fun-filled celebration of the return of this great three-day festival on the Isle of Man.
The link is below my.raceresult.com/159968/registration
The Festival consists of three races, a prize presentation/party on Easter Sunday evening which includes the famous beer-drinking competition, and many more ‘unofficial’ traditions. A huge part of the atmosphere of the event comes from the visiting student teams who take part, for whom the Easter trip to the Isle of Man is one of the big highlights of their year.
The three races are:
Friday 15 April – 10k road race starting and finishing in Port Erin in the south of the island. Men and women start together at 18.45.
Saturday 16 April – Peel Hill races in the west of the island. The men’s race starts at 14.15, the women’s race at 15.05.
Sunday 17 April – 5k road races on Douglas Promenade Walkway, starting and finishing near the Sea Terminal. The women’s race starts at 10.30, the men’s race at 11.15.
Entry fees have been held at the same level as they were for the cancelled 2020 Festival. A total of 45 competitors who entered for 2020 or 2021 have chosen to roll their entries forward to the 2022 event, and their names already appear on the entry list.
You have a choice of entering just for the races themselves, or choosing the Full Festival package which gives you entry to all three races, a Festival t-shirt, coach transport to and from the races in Port Erin and Peel, and a ticket for the Presentation. Only those who enter the Full Festival are eligible for a ticket for the Presentation.
There is however one serious note for visitors. The Isle of Man still has some Covid-related restrictions in respect of entry for non-residents, which may or may not have been lifted by Easter. A link to the IOM Government information page is below, and it is essential that you read and understand it before you commit to entering the Festival and booking travel.
covid19.gov.im/travel-borders/
It has been announced recently that the Isle of Man TT motorcycle races, which attract tens of thousands of visitors from all over the world, will be going ahead in 2022 after being cancelled for the past two years. The political will on the island is definitely to re-establish tourism in full force next year, and for that reason we are optimistic that the present restrictions will be lifted in plenty of time for Easter.
Lots of information will follow on the 2022 Festival at regular intervals from now on!
Isle of Man Easter Festival of Running, 15/04/2022-17/04/2022 : : my.race|result
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Isle of Man Easter Festival of Running, 15/04/2022-17/04/2022, DouglasThis is the sort of pre-race madness that we have missed so much for the past couple of years! This is just before the start of the 2016 10k race at Port Erin 😀
Easter Festival YouTube channel!
The Festival now has a YouTube channel, which I will add to over the coming weeks. This will make it much easier to search for videos of past Easter Festivals than it is on the Facebook group. I will create a playlist for each year.
All the videos from 2019 have now been uploaded, bringing back great memories of an unbelievably warm and sunny Easter weekend more than two and a half years ago. The temperature on Easter Saturday reached the giddy heights of 23 degrees!
Lots more information on the 2022 Festival will follow at regular intervals from now on, including an announcement soon on the opening date for entries.
In the meantime, enjoy the video footage from 2019 and please subscribe to the channel!
IOM Easter Festival of Running - YouTube
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Del dine videoer med venner, familie og verdenEaster Festival 2022 news – and an appeal for your support!
Hi everyone, long time no see! The first news is that plans have commenced for the Isle of Man Easter Festival of Running 2022 to go ahead in full force after the cancellations of the past two events due to the Covid situation.
We are retaining the event in its traditional format and on the usual courses. That means the 10k road race will be held in Port Erin on the evening of Good Friday 15th April, the Peel Hill races will be on Easter Saturday afternoon 16th April, and the 5k road races on Douglas Promenade on the morning of Easter Sunday 17th April. We also plan to hold the traditional prize presentation at the Outback Sports Bar on the Sunday evening.
As far as visiting the Isle of Man is concerned, most of the Covid-related travel restrictions that have been enforced since March 2020 have now been eased, and continue to be relaxed further as time goes on. The political will on the Island certainly seems to be to return to normality as soon as possible and to re-establish the tourism industry. We hope that by next April most if not all the restrictions will have disappeared altogether. The world-famous TT races, which attract tens of thousands of visitors from all over the world, are set to go ahead next year.
Perhaps what sets the Easter Festival apart from other running events on the Isle of Man is the number of visiting athletes who take part every year. University groups in particular make up a large proportion of the entry, and the annual trip to the island for the running and various social activities that run alongside the races have become an annual ritual. Leeds and Manchester Universities have been supporting the Festival since the 1970s, and we have been delighted over the past 10 to 15 years to see more and more university teams taking part.
The big problem we have after missing two years is the loss of continuity in the organisation of trips by the visiting teams. By 2022 there will be few current university students who will have been to the Festival, let alone organised a trip to it. We thought it may be helpful at this point to re-publish an article put together a few years ago with the help of Manchester University’s George Bilsby, which gives quite a comprehensive guide to organising a group trip to the Isle of Man for the Festival. This will hopefully prove useful.
We would also appeal to the student population out there for contact details for university athletic clubs, to help us to publicise the event right from the start of the academic year. In particular we would appeal to our traditional university visitors to get in touch with us – Manchester, Leeds, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Cambridge, Durham, Sheffield, St Andrew’s, Dublin, Keele, Lancaster, Liverpool, Nottingham, Birmingham, Bristol, Oxford Brookes.
We currently have 1,712 members of the group – if many of you, especially those who have travelled to the Festival in the past, can share this post it will be a huge help in getting the word round the student population that the Festival will be back in 2022 and that we want to see you on the Isle of Man next Easter!
We have tonight posted refund cheques to everyone whose entry has not been transferred to 2022. Hopefully these should be with you before the end of the week if not a day or two earlier.
If you are expecting a cheque and do not receive anything in the next few days please e-mail easterfestival@manx.net.