Five age cat wins for Road Runners at Conwy parkrun.

Five age cat wins for Road Runners at Conwy parkrun.

Report by Don Hale. Photos by Steve Jeffery.

 

Numbers were down for regulars at Conwy parkrun last Saturday due to the rough weather and several fixture clashes, yet this popular 5k run still attracted tourists from as far afield as Davenport, Rochdale, Stockport, Lancaster, Newbury, and Pontypridd, amongst others.

North Wales Road Runners entered seven athletes this week and five claimed age category wins, with two others finishing in third places. And both the male and female first finishers positions were won by Martin and Carla Green.



*Pictured (*above), wearing black and looking just like a couple from a Milk Tray advert - Carla and Martin Green who both won at Saturday's Conwy Parkrun.


The wet and very blustery conditions, however, didn’t seem to affect Martin Green who was the first runner back again to record a hat-trick of successive victories, and he also won his MV45-49 age cat in 18 minutes 56 seconds. 



*Dave Spofforth on form again and he won his age cat at Conwy.


David Spofforth ran very well to finish in 4th place, and he was 1st in his MV40-44 cat in 21.15, with Carla Greenfinishing 7th overall, and the 1st female runner, easily winning her VW50-54 age cat in 21.39; and Jamie Tharme continued to impress finishing 12th and 3rd MV40-45 cat in 22.49.



*Jamie Tharme (*above left) continued to impress again.


Joe Culverhouse and his dad Stuart ran together and finished in 18th and 19th places respectively, with Joe winning his JM11-14 cat and Stuart 3rd in his MV50-54 cat in 23.18, whilst master vet Don Hale won his M65-69 age cat in 25.34, finishing in 37th place overall.


*NWRRC junior Joe Culverhouse (*above) won his age cat running with his dad Stuart and (*below) master veteran Don Hale claimed the M65-69 age cat.


*The challenging conditions though kept the finishing times well down with just two runners dipping under the twenty-minute mark, and the first three runners home included: 1st Martin Green (NWRRC), 1st MV45-49 in 18.56; 2nd Andy Savage (Cybi Striders), 1st MV50-54 in 19.26; and 3rd James Williams (Lymm Runners), 2nd MV50-54 in 20.34. There were 120 finishers.

 

*This is the link to the provisional results to the Conwy parkrun:

https://www.parkrun.org.uk/conwy/results/latestresults/

 

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