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*Pictured above - Mark Davies made a dramatic and emotional return to running at Conwy following his partial recovery from serious injury. An emotional return to running at Conwy for international  mountain racer Mark Davies following a life-changing hit and run accident...plus results and parkrun summary... Exclusive report by Don Hale. Photos by John  Hatton and Bill Scriven. https://donhaleblog.blogspot.com www.welshmastersathletics.co.uk   It was an emotional moment at Conwy parkrun last Saturday morning as about three-hundred athletes, volunteers, and marshalls welcomed a surprise and a quite remarkable return to action by Mark Davies, an award-winning international fell and mountain race runner, who miraculously survived a life-changing hit and run accident in January last year. Mark, who won a special achievement award just two months before this horrific incident, following his previous success at the Swiss Peaks 360 Mountain Race, has spent a considerable amount ...

Positive news about award winning mountain racer Mark Davies following a devastating hit and run incident last January… *Special report by Don Hale.  https://donhaleblog.blogspot.com   Thankfully, there has been some positive news this week about the award-winning mountain racer and fell runner Mark Davies who was seriously injured during a devastating hit and run incident close to his home near Llandudno last January. *Mark in yellow vest (*above) pictured with fellow competitors in the Swiss Mountain 360 race. Mark (48), who is a member of the North Wales Road Running club, and is also a top Welsh Master ultra-distance competitor, has faced extensive medical treatment at a specialist injury hospital in Stoke following the incident on 28th January, when he was in collision with a VW Polo. This led to a lengthy period in a coma, and an operation on his legs, and during this period, Mark’s friend Darrel Lewis launched a special fundraising appeal via a GoFundMe page which raise...