Two Denbigh Harriers represented Wales in the British and Irish Masters Cross Country International competition at Aintree on Saturday covering a 6k course. Emma Collins was the first counter for Wales in her category with her best international cross country placing finishing 12th in a time of 25.49. Menai Baugh took part in the open race finishing in 30.55.
A large group of eleven Harriers travelled to Brecon to represent North Wales in the Welsh Inter-regional Championships where over 2000 athletes competed throughout the day. The club provided one of the largest North Wales contingents for the Senior and Masters races with some excellent performances. The Baugh sisters, Katy and Elen had a hard fought battle all the way round the 6k course to finish on the line together. They were closely followed by Mari Wynne Williams and Cary Davies who was competing as a master. In the men’s race there was a superb run from Shaun Hughes finishing as North Wales’ third counter. The Men ran a 6 mile course which was very muddy and churned up after all the other competitors had run making this hard work. Most of the Harriers counted as scorers for their relevant age group teams.
Women
60th Katy BAUGH 28:57
61st Elen BAUGH 28:58
71st Mari WYNNE WILLIAMS 29:19
90th Carys DAVIES 30:20
Men
24th Shaun HUGHES 35:12
88th Tony WOOD 38:27
99th Glen PRICE 39:38
132nd Mat Jones 41:56
147th David BAUGH 42:56
153rd Phillip HAYES 43:57
163rd Tony BENTON 46:54
The Penmaenmawr Fell Race took place on Saturday with many runners fondly remembering a stalwart of the race and Denbigh Harrier, Dave Say, who sadly passed away last week. Dave was a true mountain man with many years of epic fell running experience including almost every version of this race since its start in the 1970s. Two Harriers were there with Sioned Griffiths finishing as 17th woman in the wet and misty conditions which caused navigation issues for some runners.
69th Sioned Griffiths 1:54:38
99th Duncan Jones 1:57:03
There was a large turnout for the Conwy Half Marathon on Sunday with 15 Harriers amongst the nearly 3000 runners. Five of these runners had doubled up for the weekend having run in the Welsh Inter-regional Championships on Saturday. There was a dry start to the race with no wind on the Great Orme however this changed as it started to rain about 90 minutes into the race. Shaun Hughes was one of the runners who ran the cross country the day before was the first harrier home, followed by Joe Welsh who was pacing other runners for a 1:30 time and Mat Jones. The first woman from the harriers was Mel Morris. Followed by Katy and Elen Baugh followed closely by Carys Davies. It was a first half marathon for Gwenno Williams who ran with Ian Jones. Also running were Bob Neale, David Jones, Dawn Marshall, Nicola Field, Graham Field and Luke Hughes.
30th Shaun Hughes 1.19.46
105th Joe Welch 1.29.13
361st Mat Jones 1.40.17
494th Mel Morris 1.43.23
657th Katy Baugh 1.46.51
659th Elen Baugh 1.46.52
695th Carys Davies 1.47.38
904th Bob Neale 1.51.27
1553rd David Jones 2.04.16
1628th Gwenno Williams 2.05.53
1630th Ian Jones 2.05.54
1884th Dawn Marshall 2.12.51
1890th Luke Hughes 2.12.12
2102nd Nicola Field 2.19.26
2259th Graham Field 2.25.01
Rob Parry ran an unusual half marathon is Coalport in Shropshire this weekend, on muddy, wet, slippery trails and potholed lanes – at night, using a head torch. The race started at sunset he ran with the aid of hi head torch to finally cross the line in a time of 2:29:43.
Saturday saw the completion of the Denbigh Harriers Run for fun 10 week course where runners are prepared to run a 5k race. This race took place at the Conwy Parkrun with the support of many Denbigh Harrier Run Leaders and friends.
166th Ceri JONES 00:28:45
186th Ian JONES 00:29:38
280th Alison LESTER-OWEN 00:35:50
281st Peter LESTER-OWEN 00:35:51
284th Roger SNAITH 00:36:24
285th Bob NEALE 00:36:42
301st Helen DAVIES 00:37:50
317th Dawn LEES 00:41:45
319th Dawn MARSHALL 00:41:51
320th Julie ROBERTS 00:41:52
340th Sally SMITH 00:59:12
342nd John Llewelyn THOMAS 00:59:14
Westpark Parkrun
84th Susan D HEWITT 00:38:50
Pont y Bala Parkrun
10th Chris BALDWIN 00:25:05
