The Red Wall has been prominent in a number of venues over the past week as
members of Prestatyn Running Club have turned out in force.
On Wednesday evening 20 of them turned out in the Ruthin 5k and seven of
them were among the 24 who were in action again 48 hours later in the fourth
and final race in Deestriders' Off-Road Grand Prix in Shotton.
For Marc Jones and Nicki Triggs it was their third outing in four days,
while others followed the Friday run with appearances in Saturday Parkruns.
Marc then made it four races in five days when setting a new pb of 1-34.41
in the Cheshire Half-Marathon on Sunday.
Another who set a pb after a busy week was Dave Ellis, who joined the
60,000 competitors in Sunday's Great North Run. He took two minutes off his
previous best for the distance, coming 537th overall in 1-22.39.
Ruthin 5k placings: 4 Jonah Armstrong 17.43 (3rd SM), 9 George Williams
18.42, 10 Cam Askan 18.58, 15 Jamie Betts 19.36, 19 Marc Jones 20.08 (1st
M60), 27 Paul Sanders 20.59, 38 Steve Weedman 22.11, 48 Andy Clark 23.36, 54
Ann Claire Jones 24.00 (2nd L50), 67 Martin Gill 24.50, 71 Ally Reid 25.16,
74 Arwel Jones 25.48, 75 Sophie Johnson 25.56, 79 Cara Jones 26.06, 84 Nicki
Triggs 26.41, 102 Debbie Jones 29.05, 107 Debbie Weedman 29.46, 114 Emma
Birchall 31.28, 127 Julie Evans 37.48, 128 Suzanne Evans 39.00.
The club completed a very successful season at Shotton on Friday, claiming
several age-group awards and again having the biggest turnout of all the
participating clubs. The race also marked the club debut of Darrell Jones,
who looks like being another useful addition to the ranks. The results and
end-of-year awards were not available at the time of going to Press.
While several members took it relatively easy in the following morning's's
Parkruns six were up in the early hours for the flight and an appearance in
the scenic Newton Abbey Parkrun near Belfast.
Parkrun results:-
Nova: 2 Cam Askan 20.16, 4 Jamie Betts 21.12, 12 Ed Shirt 22.12, 20 Will
Lines 24.20, 23 Meg Lewis 24.37, 24 Dave Ellis 24.37, 32 Arwel Jones 24.39,
36 Paul Sanders 26.08, 38 Reg Jonas 25.15, 49 Martin Gill 27.02, 54 Mark
Dakeyne 27.49, 68 Lisa Lines 29.00, 72 Andy Carter 29.28, 97 Jo Lewis 31.42,
102 Rachael Peel 32.21 (pb).
Pont-y-Bala: 15 Ann Claire Jones 23.54, 36 Helen Alefounder 27.33.
Delamere: 124 Sophie Johnson 27.48, 150 Mandy Cartwright 28.47.
Newton Abbey: 10 Steve Weedman 24.03, 18 Andy Clark 26.16, 59 Debbie
Weedman 31.50, 51 Nem James 32.09, 84 Suzanne Evans 43.02, 88 Julie Evans
44.59.
Widnes: 48 Martin Cortvriend 22.12. The previous weekend Martin was second
M70 in the Laganside 10k near Belfast with a time of 46.14.
Four members travelled to Royden Park, Wirral, for the first of the
four-race off-road series, and enjoyed the multi-terrain course.
Marc Jones was 117th in 37.32, with Ann Claire Jones 212 in 42.31, Andy
Scott 293rd in 49.15 and Nicki Triggs 295th in 49.27.
In addition to the club's prizewinners in the Cilcain fell-race reported
last week the names of Sophie Johnson and Reg Jonas were omitted. Sophie
took silver in the L45 class in both the North Wales and Welsh Short Course
championships and Reg was second M60 in the North Wales championships.
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