11Jun

Joe Brown Tuesday Series – Race 10 y Garn (or not) & Series so far

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Joe Brown Tuesday Series Race 10 y Garn was re-routed to the slopes of yr Wyddfa following a threat of lightning (not forthcoming). In the overall Joe Brown series there have been more than 350 runners taking part, of which 73 have so far qualified (5 races complete) for the competition. It’s close at the top with not much in it between Math Roberts, Gareth Wyn Hughes and Russell Bentley. For the ladies, Miranda Grant leads Sian Williams and then Gemma Brown. All to play for with two to go.
Mike’s Facebook report from the night:
Round 10 Mid-week series, Rhyd ddu. Well by the time the forecasted bad weather had not appeared and the low clag on Garn had lifted JP had already marked the other side of the valley the good thing to come out of it I was bitten for less time and all the prize winners were still around. Wins for ‘Sir’, Mark Davies 1st 40 in 4th,Ryan Cain 1st U18 6th, Tomos Land 1st U14 7th and Max 1st U16 8th, good battle there. Miranda Grant top 10 again 1 place ahead of Sian, Dereck 1st 60 13th, Emlyn twin 1st 50 18th, Lisa Grantham 1st F40 27th, Sarah B F50 30th, Annabelle McQueen U16 Rhiannon Kamink U18 Emyr M70 and Maggie F60. C’Fon Tyres Jnr’s. Wins again U8’s for Merin and Emms, U10 Ben and Kyla, U 12s Guy and Efa and U 14 Cai and Samia, 11.45 and the bites just receding at last !
11Jun

Joe Brown Tuesday Series – Race 10 y Garn (or not) & Series so far

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Joe Brown Tuesday Series Race 10 y Garn was re-routed to the slopes of yr Wyddfa following a threat of lightning (not forthcoming). In the overall Joe Brown series there have been more than 350 runners taking part, of which 73 have so far qualified (5 races complete) for the competition. It’s close at the top with not much in it between Math Roberts, Gareth Wyn Hughes and Russell Bentley. For the ladies, Miranda Grant leads Sian Williams and then Gemma Brown. All to play for with two to go.
Mike’s Facebook report from the night:
Round 10 Mid-week series, Rhyd ddu. Well by the time the forecasted bad weather had not appeared and the low clag on Garn had lifted JP had already marked the other side of the valley the good thing to come out of it I was bitten for less time and all the prize winners were still around. Wins for ‘Sir’, Mark Davies 1st 40 in 4th,Ryan Cain 1st U18 6th, Tomos Land 1st U14 7th and Max 1st U16 8th, good battle there. Miranda Grant top 10 again 1 place ahead of Sian, Dereck 1st 60 13th, Emlyn twin 1st 50 18th, Lisa Grantham 1st F40 27th, Sarah B F50 30th, Annabelle McQueen U16 Rhiannon Kamink U18 Emyr M70 and Maggie F60. C’Fon Tyres Jnr’s. Wins again U8’s for Merin and Emms, U10 Ben and Kyla, U 12s Guy and Efa and U 14 Cai and Samia, 11.45 and the bites just receding at last !
08Jun

Keswick Festival

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Big thanks to the Eryri runners who ran at Keswick over the weekend of 21/22nd May as part of our Eryri team. We are still endeavouring to find out how we did in the Team event so for now I’ll simply summarise the individual performances which were excellent.
First up were Emlyn Roberts & myself in the 25K setting off in pouring rain, thankfully conditions soon improved but we still had a rather deep & tricky river crossing to contend with. Emlyn came home strongly in 33rd place out of 417 in 2 Hours 30 Minutes with me chasing his tail some 4 minutes behind in 47th place. To cap Emlyn’s performance he won his O. 50’s category after a bit of a ding dong battle with his nearest rival which was only settled in the closing mile.
Next came Judy Jones who had stepped into the breach late in the day to provide our only 5K entrant, despite her normal preference for much longer distances where her stamina can come more to the fore. Judy placed 107th out of approx. 250, very respectable indeed.
Sunday dawned more or less at the same time as Llion Iwan set off on a very demanding 50K at 6:00 am! The route took him firstly around the East & South of Borrowdale before heading further afield to Buttermere & beyond. He returned some 6 Hours & 2 minutes later placing a very good 25th out of 180 looking like there was plenty of running left in him but having given plenty to the cause.
Finally it was time for Steve Jones to step up for the 10K race which included the like of Ricky Lightfoot. Ricky won by a clear margin but arguably Steve, who was carrying a knee injury into the race, arguably upstaged him finishing a remarkable 16th place out of a field of over 600, not bad for a 61 year old but there again what else would you expect from Steve.
As we exchanged experiences post races I think I can speak for us all, the Keswick Mountain Festival was a great event, it also includes Cycling, Swimming & Triathlon competitions as well as a variety of excellent speakers, concert performers, stalls & of course pubs! We all enthusiastically agreed, lets come back next year with a bigger & stronger team.
Paul Hodges
07Jun

Isle of Jura Fell Race

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Two Eryri runners completed the gruelling Isle of Jura Race on the 29th of May in a very competitive field and a counter in the Scottish champs. Chris Near finished in 43rd place at 4:11:20 followed by Adrian Williams in 48th place at 4:15:01. Well done to both of them!