Nine podium places and seven age category wins at Ruthin parkrun.

*Carla and Martin Green (*above) both recorded all time PBs at Ruthin.

Nine podium places and seven age category wins at Ruthin parkrun...

Report by Don Hale.

 

North Wales Road Runners took nine members to the Ruthin parkrun last Saturday morning to complete in another 5k club championship event as a replacement for a recently cancelled race and celebrated with unprecedented success!

The team performed well again with all nine runners claiming podium places and seven also won their respective age categories, and many additionally recorded all-time PBs, as they made their debuts at this relatively new venue staged at the Memorial Playing Fields.

In another very fast-paced encounter Martin Green was the first male runner home, and his wife Carla Green finished as the first female runner, with both additionally celebrating new parkrun all time PBs.

Martin ran in his 100th parkrun event and he knocked a couple of seconds off his previous best time to finish 1st overall in 16 minutes and 55 seconds, and he also won his MV45 age cat, with Glyn Rees 2nd with a PB in 19.13, and fellow NWRRC member Stuart Culverhouse knocked 33-seconds off his previous best time to finish 3rd overall, and he was 1st MV50 cat finishing just six seconds adrift of Glyn in 19.19.

Martin later confirmed: “There were lots of 180 degree turns (three laps) and all of us ran quickly and some even ran all-time PBs by a fair margin. It’s pancake flat and a perfect surface.”

*Stuart Culverhouse (*above) knocked 33-seconds off his previous PB.

Carla Green led the Ladies home in 4th place overall with a 25-second parkrun improvement to easily win her VW50 age cat in 19.29. Youngster Daisy Jones finished as the 2nd female runner with a superb PB of 21.19, and she also claimed 1st place in her JW11-14 age cat, with local athlete Victoria Owens (Denbigh Harriers) also recorded a new PB, finishing as the 3rd female runner and 1st in her VW35 age cat in 21.45. The event attracted 79 finishers.

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

Cheryl Frost continued with her purple patch of form to claim 15th place overall and she was the 4th female athlete in 21.49 to claim another all-time PB to win her VW55 age cat, with Kay Hatton hot on her heels as the 5th female and in 17th place overall in 22.06, whilst finishing 2nd in the same age cat as Cheryl for another similar all-time PB.

*Nicola Wylie (*above left) and Rob Fryer both ran well at Ruthin.

Nicola Wylie repeated her impressive and consistent form to finish 21st overall, the 7th female, and she was also 2nd in her VW50 cat in 23.18. And veteran runner Rob Fryer ran well again and collected a bonus MV65 age cat win finishing 24th in 23.54.

Helen Hannam also turned in another positive run, to finish in 38th place overall and the 11th female runner, whilst also winning her VW45 cat in 26.26, and master veteran Mike Hayton celebrated another worthy PB, and he too won his MV70 age cat victory in 27.16.

*Helen HANNAM (*above left) with Mike Hayton.

 

*This is the provisional results list from Ruthin:

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