Held on a bitterly cold day around the grounds of NUI Maynooth, the Intervarsity road relays were switched to the old course due to renovation work being carried out on the college. In the women's race, DCU regained last year's title by a margin of 51 seconds. Ciara Durkan got them off to a flying start, impressively running the fastest mile of the day in 5:06. However, UCC's Orla Drumm quickly closed the gap, catching and then passing DCU's Linda Byrne to give them an eleven second advantage at halfway. Unsurprisingly, Fionnuala Britton of DCU closed the gap and then raced clear, running the fastest 2-mile leg in 10:24. She handed over to Ellen Diskin who came home on the glory leg to maintain DCU's dominance in the women's event. UCC came home in second with UCD well back in third. The men's race saw DCU looking to regain the title they lost last year to UCD. In what was expected to be a two-horse race, John Eves from UCD ran a strong opening mile to give them a six second advantage over DCU's 'A' team. Alan McCormack widened the gap, running further clear of DCU's Eoin Higgins. Going into the crucial 3-mile leg, UCD led by over 100 metres. However, DCU's Mark Christie blasted the first lap and soon joined UCD's Michael Clohissy at the front. The pair ran together for the remainder of the leg. Handing over to Danny Darcy of DCU and James Nolan of UCD for the penultimate leg, the race was hanging in the balance. Nolan sat on Darcy's heels for the first of two laps before powering by on the second lap to record the day's fastest 2-mile split (9:01). Going out on the final mile, UCD's Garrett Coughlan held an unassailable lead over DCU's Eoin Everard. Coughlan held his composure and came home alone to win by seven seconds from the closing Everard in a time of 41mins 7secs. Queen's University Belfast finished a distant third.