Road Runners battled for club points and podium places at Nova parkrun.

*Pictured at the Nova parkrun at Prestatyn are (l-r) Rachel Morris, Helen Hannam and Nicola Wylie.

Road Runners battled for club points and podium places at Prestatyn's Nova parkrun...

Report by Don Hale. Photos by Steve Jeffrey.

 

Eleven members of NWRRC travelled to Prestatyn last Saturday to compete in the Nova parkrun as part of their revised 5k club championship events, with the run organisers recording their best attendance since lockdown.

With numerous open races either being cancelled or rescheduled this year due to the recent pandemic, the club opted to include this parkrun as an important middle-distance alternative, and members later celebrated with seven podium places, including four age category wins.

And, for all but one of the Road Runners, it meant a course debut at this parkrun venue, which was also boosted in the sunshine by supporters of the cancer charity – ‘Your Way, Move Against Cancer.’

*Martin Green (*above) was in fine form with two superb 5k times.

Martin Green led the club team home despite competing in an elite 5k race in Cheshire the night before. Martin eventually finished 4th overall out of 162 runners, in a time of 19 minutes and 45 seconds, and he also won his MV45 age cat.

*Pictured (*above left) Stuart Culverhouse with Gethin Wyn Jones.

Stuart Culverhouse, who was the only club finisher to have run at this event before, was 6th and won his MV50 cat in 20.13, with Gethin Wyn Jones 12th in 21.21. 

*Carla Green (*above) was the first female finisher at Nova Prestatyn.

Carla Green was the 1st female finisher in 14th place overall and won her FV50 cat in 21.29, and Cheryl Frost and Kay Hatton enjoyed another bout of friendly rivalry, with Cheryl narrowly finishing just one-second and one place ahead of her colleague. Cheryl was 29th overall and won her FV55 cat in 23.29, with Kay 30th and 2nd FV55 cat in 23.30.

*Cheryl Frost (*above left) with Kay Hatton.

Nicola Wylie ran well to claim 37th place and she was 2nd in her FV50 age cat in 24.34, with veteran Rob Fryer 41st and 3rd in his MV65 age cat in 25.39. And it was a rare parkrun outing for fellow vet Len Jackson who finished 63rd, and he was 4th in the same age cat as Rob in 27.54.

*NWRRC veterans Rob Fryer (*above left) with Len Jackson.

In addition, Helen Hannam was 4th in her FV45 cat in 28.43, whilst Rachel Morris finished 92nd overall, and 4th in her FV40 cat in 31.01.

The event was won by Andrew Wallace in 17.52, with local runner Stephen Skates (Prestatyn RC), 2nd in 18.23, with Matthew Baker 3rd in 18.25.

 

*This is the link to the Nova Prestatyn parkrun results:

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