Glittering annual trophy afternoon for North Wales Road Runners

By Don Hale donhaleblog.blogspot.com/2025 December 03, 2024

*NWRRC members are pictured above with their trophies. (*Photo John Hatton).

Glittering annual trophy afternoon for North Wales Road Runners...

Report by Don Hale.

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It was a glittering afternoon of trophies and celebrations for members of North Wales Road Runners at Colwyn Bay Cricket Club last Sunday following the club’s annual festive handicap race at Rhos on Sea.

Kay Hatton was this year’s MC, ably assisted by her colleague Cheryl Frost, with all the prizes awarded following an excellent carvery lunch.

One of the very first awards went to Mike Hayton and Kay Hatton, who were the winners of the earlier Christmas handicap race at Rhos on Sea.

*Club veterans Mike Hayton and Kay Hatton (*above), were the Christmas handicap race winners from earlier in the day

The first male awards went to the individual group winners and included: Group C – Rob Fryer, and runner-up Daniel Hennell. Steve Mason won the Group B section prize with runner-up Ben Hudson, whilst Jonathan Kettle was the Group A winner, with Iwan Evans the runner-up.

In the female section, Nia Lister was the Group B winner, with runner-up Rachel Morris, and in Group A, Carla Greenwas the winner, with Cheryl Frost the runner-up. The Male Over-60 veteran of the year was Rob Fryer, with Carla Green taking the Female Over-50 prize.

The Most Improved female athlete was Gwen Charlton, and Adam Lemalle won the Most Improved male athlete trophy. The Rob Fryer Award for the best parkrun percentage went to Carla Green with 86.2%, and super-vet Sandy Johnston won the male award with 81.68%.

Carla Green then capped a star-studded event by winning the prestigious Female Runner of the Year prize, with Jonathan Kettle claiming the male award; and the Dave Gardner award for collecting the most points throughout the season went to Cheryl Frost with 167 points, with Carla Green, the runner-up with 142 pts, and Jonathan Kettle 3rd with 140pts.

And finally, the Nick Beer Award – for the club member who had contributed the most during the season - went to Iwan Evans.

*North Wales Road Runners are pictured just before the start of the club handicap race from Rhos on Sea to the far end of the renovated prom at Colwyn Bay and back.

*This is the link to the report about the club handicap race: Don Hale Blog: Christmas cracker at the NWRRC handicap race...plu... https://donhaleblog.blogspot.com/2024/12/christmas-cracker-at-nwrrc-handicap.html?spref=tw

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Don Hale is a best-selling British author and former investigative journalist. He has been Journalist of the Year on three separate occasions in the past. and his extensive campaign to help free Stephen Downing for a murder he did not commit, won him both the Campaign and National Journalist of the Year Awards, A former regional newspaper editor, he was awarded an OBE in 2002 for campaign journalism. He has also been a lead investigator in several other successful, high-profile, miscarriage of justice and human rights cases. He has written several best selling books including - Murder in the Graveyard a true crime mystery story. There is also Buster Crabb - Ian Fleming's Favourite Spy, and Mallard about the battle to create the fastest steam loco in the world against the challenge from Nazi Germany, and more lately, there is The Jersey Boys and Liberation, about the secret stories of occupied Jersey during WW2, told by several resistance heroes and historians.