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*Bernie Jones (*second row, far left, with a cap), and many members of the successful Welsh Masters team at the Great Manchester international half-marathon race. Masters Half Marathon International England v Wales Great Manchester Half Marathon Sunday 26th May 2024.   Report and photos  courtesy  of the Welsh Masters team manager Bernie Jones. The second of this year’s Masters Road Internationals was held within the Great Manchester Run Half Marathon and a small team (once again compared to England’s huge team) turned up in Manchester City Centre and achieved the best results we have so far in any of the Master internationals that we have held in the past three years.  This time the Team competition was in 10 year age groups with Wales having teams of 6 from ages 35 through to 65+. Whilst Wales were never going to trouble England in the overall Team result, we did manage to get amongst the individual medals with some great runs.   Tom Roberts, Meirionnydd was again first home for Wale

*Back to their best - Martin and Carla Green (*above), performed well for the Welsh Masters team in the Great Manchester half-marathon last Sunday. Martin and Carla Green hit top form for the Welsh Masters team in the Great Manchester half-marathon. Report by Don Hale. https://donhaleblog.blogspot.com   North Wales Road Runners Martin and Carla Green both celebrated excellent performances whilst representing Wales at the Masters half-marathon international race versus England last Sunday, incorporated within the prestigious Great Manchester event, which along with the 10k race attracted over 30,000 runners. The talented couple, who have only recently returned to major competition action following a period of ill health, both recorded incredible results, and they each finished in 1st place for Wales in their respective age categories. Martin crossed the line in 65.50 and finished 4th overall in his M45-49 cat, but he was the 1st Welsh runner home in that particular category, whilst Carl