ERYRI HARRIERS MOUNTAIN RUNNING CHAMPIONSHIPS 2009
SHORT: 07/03/2009 PIPE DREAM. Y GARN 01/08/2009
MEDIUM: 05/09/2009 HALF PERIS. ARENIG FAWR 04/10/2009
LONG: 09/05/2009 FOEL FRAS. RHINOG HORSESHOE 04/07/2009
SCORING: 1st 25. 2nd 20. 3rd18. 4th 17. 5th 16 and so on until 20th 1pt then half a point each for every other finisher.
Saturday, 30 May 2009
HOT AND SUNNY CADER
Conditions were certainly more summer like for the Ras Y Cader (Incorporating the first race in the Welsh Athletics MR Championship) at Dolgellau on Saturday 30th May with the hot and sunny conditions an extra challenge for the runners as well as the 10.5m/3000' up and down course, still another good turnout for the race with 246 finishers with 2006 race winner Lloyd Taggart (Dark Peak) again successful in a time of 1:26:25 with 2007/08 race winner Richard Roberts 2nd in 1:29:05 and that was after working a night shift! Mynydd Du's Martin Shaw was 3rd in 1:33:54 while Eryri's Iain Ridgway ran well to finish 4th in 1:35:42. Eryri's Jackie Lee led the ladies home in 11th place overall in a time of 1:41:38. 2nd (After a heavy fall on the downhill and injuring her knee) Helen Fines 1:46:07 and 3rd Sarah Ridgway 1:49:03. Other notable Eryri placings/times: 19th (1st MV/50) Arwel Lewis 1:44:59. 23rd Noel Craine 1:45:54. 28th Dafydd Williams 1:47:10. 33rd Rory O'Donnell 1:48:22. 34th Paul Jenkinson 1:48:33. 45th Adrian Williams 1:53:21. 55th (5th S/L) Jenny Hemming 1:55:38. 61st (2nd MV/60) Don Williams 1:57:44.
Congratulations to Graeme Stringer and his team for another well organised event.
Friday, 29 May 2009
Great Arete Midweek Series - Round 5 Aber
Well that was another one with a start designed to clear the cobwebs and confuse some of the Prestatyn runners.
The Williams family got a real flyer with the eventual winner Dafydd “highways” being pushed hard by Henri (going on to win the juniors) form Tryfan and newcomer Sam Smith. SPJ took the over 50 win, DWT the 60’s whilst Jenny H, Sarah B, Bridget, Maggie and Lisa took the ladies honours.
In the Caernarfon Tyres under 12 John Spill won again and is now level with Rhys James (under 14) whilst in the under 8 Ben’s mam’s genes are starting to kick in taking him to 2nd behind the dominant Kes.
Next race from Rachub on June 9th, if you can help … … …
For action pictures see www.fellrunningpictures.co.uk
The Williams family got a real flyer with the eventual winner Dafydd “highways” being pushed hard by Henri (going on to win the juniors) form Tryfan and newcomer Sam Smith. SPJ took the over 50 win, DWT the 60’s whilst Jenny H, Sarah B, Bridget, Maggie and Lisa took the ladies honours.
In the Caernarfon Tyres under 12 John Spill won again and is now level with Rhys James (under 14) whilst in the under 8 Ben’s mam’s genes are starting to kick in taking him to 2nd behind the dominant Kes.
Next race from Rachub on June 9th, if you can help … … …
For action pictures see www.fellrunningpictures.co.uk
ABERSOCH 10K
The organisers of the Abersoch 3k & 10k race on Saturday 6th June are appealing for volunteers to help with the marshalling of the event, anyone willing to help please contact Kelly by e-mail: kelly@sensationsgroup.com
Race web site: www.abersoch10k.com
Thank you
Race web site: www.abersoch10k.com
Thank you
W/e 'local' fell running, 30/31 May ...
Sat 30 May, Ras Cader Idris, AM 10.5miles/3000feet, M: 1.21, F: 1.33. Start 13.00. Eldon Sq, Dolgellau. £7 www.cader-race.co.uk, £10 EOD.
Always bring: bumbag, map, compass, whistle, wind/waterproof top & trousers, hat & gloves, suncream ... (Ras Carneddau !). E&OE, please make your own checks before travelling.
For the latest local running news, check this Eryri 'blog' site: http://eryriharriers.blogspot.com/ and WFRA http://www.wfra.org.uk/
Advance notices:
No evening race Tuesday 2 June.
Tuesday evening race 9th June. 'Moel Faban'. Start 7.15pm. Rachub, park by the swings (SH 622 682). EOD £1.50. Will it visit Moel Faban, Gyrn, Gyrn Wigau ?? (Please register at 6.30 if you can).
Sat 6th June, FRA Calendar lists 11 events ! Here are two:-
Welsh 1000m Peaks Race, Abergwyngregyn to Snowdon, 20miles/8900ft, pre-entry, some classes full. http://www.gorphwysfa.org.uk/
Stretton Hills, AS, new route, 5.75miles/2500ft, Church Stretton. Start 13.00, £5. www.merciafellrunners.org.uk
Sat 20th June, Red Kite challenge, Nant Yr Arian, (SN 718 813) on A44 east of Aberysywyth. Walk, 11am, 8+miles, £5. Run, 1pm, 11+miles (£100 for new record), £8/£10UA, M:1.12, F:1.19. Forest and moorland. rhedwr@gmail.com, www.redkite-barcudcoch.org.uk
Weds 1st July, Vaynol Park 10k, pre-entry only by 29th June or when 300 reached. Forms from http://www.gwylfelin.org/ or eilir.felin@btopenworld.com
October 3rd, Exmoor 30:30 - a challenge for teams of 5 to carry 30lbs pp over 30 miles of Exmoor. Free entry, £1,000 to be raised for one of four charities. http://www.exmoor3030.org.uk/
Eryri Harriers annual club membership runs from the end of March. If you would like to join, re-join or renew, please contact membership-eryri@tiscali.co.uk
Weekend Mountain Forecast for Snowdonia
Saturday: A dry day with continuous strong sunshine, although a slightly fresher feel than Friday.
Sunday: A fine and dry day with prolonged sunshine and feeling very warm. A moderate easterly wind.
Always bring: bumbag, map, compass, whistle, wind/waterproof top & trousers, hat & gloves, suncream ... (Ras Carneddau !). E&OE, please make your own checks before travelling.
For the latest local running news, check this Eryri 'blog' site: http://eryriharriers.blogspot.com/ and WFRA http://www.wfra.org.uk/
Advance notices:
No evening race Tuesday 2 June.
Tuesday evening race 9th June. 'Moel Faban'. Start 7.15pm. Rachub, park by the swings (SH 622 682). EOD £1.50. Will it visit Moel Faban, Gyrn, Gyrn Wigau ?? (Please register at 6.30 if you can).
Sat 6th June, FRA Calendar lists 11 events ! Here are two:-
Welsh 1000m Peaks Race, Abergwyngregyn to Snowdon, 20miles/8900ft, pre-entry, some classes full. http://www.gorphwysfa.org.uk/
Stretton Hills, AS, new route, 5.75miles/2500ft, Church Stretton. Start 13.00, £5. www.merciafellrunners.org.uk
Sat 20th June, Red Kite challenge, Nant Yr Arian, (SN 718 813) on A44 east of Aberysywyth. Walk, 11am, 8+miles, £5. Run, 1pm, 11+miles (£100 for new record), £8/£10UA, M:1.12, F:1.19. Forest and moorland. rhedwr@gmail.com, www.redkite-barcudcoch.org.uk
Weds 1st July, Vaynol Park 10k, pre-entry only by 29th June or when 300 reached. Forms from http://www.gwylfelin.org/ or eilir.felin@btopenworld.com
October 3rd, Exmoor 30:30 - a challenge for teams of 5 to carry 30lbs pp over 30 miles of Exmoor. Free entry, £1,000 to be raised for one of four charities. http://www.exmoor3030.org.uk/
Eryri Harriers annual club membership runs from the end of March. If you would like to join, re-join or renew, please contact membership-eryri@tiscali.co.uk
Weekend Mountain Forecast for Snowdonia
Saturday: A dry day with continuous strong sunshine, although a slightly fresher feel than Friday.
Sunday: A fine and dry day with prolonged sunshine and feeling very warm. A moderate easterly wind.
Thursday, 28 May 2009
GWYN'S BACK FOR TITLE SUCCESS
After several months away from the racing scene, Eryri's Gwyn Owen made a surprise appearance at the Rhyl North Wales 5k Championship race on Wednesday 27th May and came away with the title despite finishing a distant 2nd to Bangor University's Morpeth student Nick Swinburn who made light of the very windy conditions along the seafront (the last 2km was run into a gale!) to win in 15:38 with Gwyn taking the North Wales Championship title by a two second margin 17:01 to Deeside's Phil Edge 17:03. other championship winners were: MV/65 Emyr Davies 37th in 20:21 and MV/75 Barrie Moore 87th in 27:43. Jordan Evans had a good run to finish 9th in 18:28 with 11th Tony Woodall 18:46. 25th (2nd MV/50) in his third race in four days Arwel Lewis 19:42 outsprinting teamate 26th Christoph Gertler 19:43 to the line. 47th (Returning from another injury setback) Steve Livett 21:36. Steve's daughter Sarah ran well to finish 32nd (2nd Junior Female missing out on the title by just four seconds) in 20:04. 49th Eurwyn Edwards 22:04 and 85th Iorwerth Roberts 27:11. There were 95 finishers.
The free advice and Lucozade sport freebies were very much appreciated after the event.
Well done to Prestatyn Running Club for organising a fine event, despite the gale!
I thought Rhyl was supposed to be sunny!!
Tuesday, 26 May 2009
Jura Fell Race
A decent turn out for this classic race, we arrived on the Friday to find the paps clear of cloud and perfect running conditions but even as we lounged about on the midge refuge/pier the coulds built. By morning the rain, low cloud and wind was well and truly in. With the cloud level standing at around 500 ft almost the whole run was done with very poor visibility. To make matters worse the course was far wetter than last year and even in clear vis the times would have been much slower.
The route traverses 7 hills including the horrifically rough yet slippy when wet paps of Jura. Most of these hills recieve few visitors so the paths are faint and numerous nav errors occured. Six times race winner Ian Holmes overtook Chris Near and myself (Iain R) at least 3 times and went on to win in a time of 3:49:50. Chris and I ran almost the whole route together whilst we (partially) shared the nav, Chris's expertise was called on a few times to keep us on track, we made few errors and moved steadily around the course, had we not made an error chasing other runners coming off the last pap we'd have gone under the magical 4 hr mark, which this year only 2 runners managed (a record low for the course), as it was we finished 4th (me) and 8th (Chris) in 4:06 and 4:09 respectively. Noel Craine nursing his injured ankle finished 35th in 4:51.
Most runners were a good 30 minutes to an hour down on previous years times, apart from Ali Thomas who amazingly only dropped 5 minutes on last years time.
The womens race was won by Angela Mudge in 4:23, with Jackie Lee 3rd (4:51), Sarah Ridgway 4th (4:53), Ali Thomas (5:15) and 2nd LV40, and Pilar Near finished in 6:02. 151 finished out of nearly 190 runners. The strong womens turn out gave them 1st female team on the day.
Cracking weekend as always.
Results: http://www.jurafellrace.org.uk/results/2009.htm
The route traverses 7 hills including the horrifically rough yet slippy when wet paps of Jura. Most of these hills recieve few visitors so the paths are faint and numerous nav errors occured. Six times race winner Ian Holmes overtook Chris Near and myself (Iain R) at least 3 times and went on to win in a time of 3:49:50. Chris and I ran almost the whole route together whilst we (partially) shared the nav, Chris's expertise was called on a few times to keep us on track, we made few errors and moved steadily around the course, had we not made an error chasing other runners coming off the last pap we'd have gone under the magical 4 hr mark, which this year only 2 runners managed (a record low for the course), as it was we finished 4th (me) and 8th (Chris) in 4:06 and 4:09 respectively. Noel Craine nursing his injured ankle finished 35th in 4:51.
Most runners were a good 30 minutes to an hour down on previous years times, apart from Ali Thomas who amazingly only dropped 5 minutes on last years time.
The womens race was won by Angela Mudge in 4:23, with Jackie Lee 3rd (4:51), Sarah Ridgway 4th (4:53), Ali Thomas (5:15) and 2nd LV40, and Pilar Near finished in 6:02. 151 finished out of nearly 190 runners. The strong womens turn out gave them 1st female team on the day.
Cracking weekend as always.
Results: http://www.jurafellrace.org.uk/results/2009.htm
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