Llyr won a surprise victory at the hilly Bangor 10k race.


 *Some of the NWRRC members who ran at Bangor last week (l-r) Llyr ApGeraint Roberts, Mike Hayton, Rob Fryer, Kelly Alford and Cai Roberts.

Llyr won a surprise victory at the hilly Bangor 10k race.

Report by Don Hale. Photos by Steve Jeffery.

 

Travelling Road Runner Llyr ApGeraint-Roberts was the surprise winner of the hilly Bangor 10k race last Sunday. The East Midlands based athlete finished just 15-seconds ahead of his nearest rival and won his MV45 age cat in just 37 minutes and 3 seconds.


Llyr (*pictured left) led home a NWRRC team of eight runners amongst an entry of some 198 finishers, with five members recording podium places including four runners, who also won their respective age categories. 

After the race Llyr admitted his surprise at his outstanding victory. He said: “The race was great as I won, but I went into it with the sole purpose of just doing a course PB, and then see what would happen, so I was surprised when I crossed the line first!”

Llyr’s colleague Harry Driscoll also put in a gritty performance to claim 10th place in 41.53, and Kay Hatton was the worthy 3rd female finisher, and she finished 1st in her F55 cat in 47.41.



*Kay Hatton (*above left) with Kevin Higgins, and (*below left) Harry Driscoll with Rob Fryer all ran well at the hilly Bangor 10k race last Sunday.


Kevin Higgins was also in good form and finished 51st and knocked about a minute off his previous best time to finish 4th in his MV60 cat in 51.18. And Cai Roberts and his partner Kelly Alford ran the course together with Cai 51st in 51.10, but Kelly won her F35 age cat, and she was also the 10th female runner in 51.13.


*Kelly Alford (*above left) with Mike Hayton.


Master veteran’s Rob Fryer and Mike Hayton also claimed excellent podium places with Rob 74th overall and 3rd in his MV65 age cat in 58.25, with Mike putting in another positive run to win his MV70 cat in 85th place overall in 1.02.25.

 

*Bangor 10k provisional results:

https://www.runwales.com/files/user_uploaded/results/535/Bangor%2010K%202022.pdf

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