iROC is organised by an experienced events team who have worked on the leading adventure races and orienteering events across the UK and Ireland, as race directors, planners and controllers. All of the planning team are regular competitors themselves. Rest assured, you are guaranteed a well designed, quality weekend of racing at iROC
Race Director – Shane Ohly
As the 2009 iROC™ Race Director you can be certain that the 2010 event is in safe hands with Shane Ohly taking charge once again. Having worked as the Planner and/or Race Director at a host of adventure sport events in recent years including, Rat Races, GealForce West, Nokia Adventure Races and Survival of the Fittest, you can be totally confident that iROC™ 2010 will be planned and delivered with precision and excellence. Shane is a regular fell runner, mountain marathon competitor and orienteer and also holds the record for the fastest winter Ramsay Round.
Planner & Controller - Steve Birkinshaw
Steve is one of Britain’s most experienced adventures racers having won the British Championships multiple times and had top finishes at the World Adventure Race Championships. Steve is also a regular mountain runner and orienteer and has won the British Orienteering Championship (both at day and at night) and the coveted OMM Elite Mountain Marathon on seven occasions.
Mountain Biking Planner - Heather Daws
Heather is one of Britain’s best endurance athletes and renowned for her biking prowess as proven by her unprecedented ten wins at the Polaris Mountain Bike Challenge. Also, on her bike she has won the Three Peaks Cyclo-Cross, Fred Whitton and the TransWales. Even without her bike she just as good, having won the OMM Elite Mixed and holding the record for the Old County Tops Fell race. She has also won the Helvellyn Mountain Triathlon.
Mapping - Marcus Pinker
Marcus is an international orienteer who has represented Ireland at five World Championships, competed in twenty different countries and produced orienteering maps to the highest standards in Britain, Ireland, Netherlands, Spain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand including be responsible for mapping at a World Cup Orienteering event.
The funding is being made available through the Rural Development Programme for England, which is jointly funded by Defra and the European Union, and is managed by One NorthEast in the North East region
