The 34th Snowdonia Marathon had over 2000 finishers on this course that is billed as one of the toughest marathons in the UK. The route circles 26.2 miles round the Snowdon massif and climbs a massive 2700ft making this marathon the equivalent of running 29 miles on the flat. This makes the times of Denbigh Harriers Emma Collins and Vic Belshaw even more impressive. Emma won the 1st Welsh lady master prize and Vic picked up the bronze male master medal. Competing in her first marathon on her birthday Dawn Marshall kept to her schedule and made her training pay off. John Worthington had missed much of his training through injury and had ran no further than 16 miles in training making his result a testament to his determination.
108th Vic Belshaw 03:22:26, 286th Emma Collins 03:40:43, 1868th DawnMarshall 05:34:14, 1979th JohnWorthington 05:54:24
The hilly Abergele 5.5 was run on Sunday with 6 Denbigh Harriers competing. Ron Birch won the North Wales Championships in his age group as he continues running at a high standard. Tony Wood had a great race and was followed home by Fred Jones who picked up a silver medal for his age group. Ceri Belshaw was 5th senior lady home and the other medal winner of the day was Bob Neal winning a bronze medal in his age group.
70th Tony WOOD 0:34:19, 89th Fred Jones 0:35:36 (2nd M60), 106th Ceri Belshaw 0:37:20, 141st Bob Neale 0:39:43 (3rd M65), 147th Mei Emrys 0:40:21, 190th Ron Birch 0:50:33 9 (1st M75)
In the hilly Holmfirth 15 miles race Martin Courtvriend won the 1st M60 category beating the current Yorkshire champion into second place.
