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Llandrillo-yn-Rhos parkrun launch and North Wales parkrun results round-up.. Report by Don Hale https://donhaleblog.blogspot.com www.welshmastersathletics.co.uk   What a fantastic turn-out for the very first Llandrillo-yn-Rhos (Y Promenade) parkrun last Saturday, as over 500 mixed ability athletes travelled from near and far to help create and enjoy a spectacular occasion. Run directors  Richard Peevor, Sharon Hughes, Dougie Graham,  and Chris Spillane , together with their hard working support team of new volunteers and marshals, worked their socks off to produce an excellent event on a near perfect day - weatherwise - after recent storms had deposited a load of sand along the promenade course at Rhos on Sea. *Pictured above - three of the four new Llandrillo-yn-Rhos parkrun run directors (l-r): Dougie Graham Sharon Hughes and Richard Peevor, and (*below) some members from the 5k Your Way, Move Against Cancer Group at the start of the parkrun. The parkrun also welcomed m...

  *Pictured above - runners and officials receive instructions before the test event, and (*below), Steven Owen (GOG Triathlon), was the first finisher overall at the trial run. Full marks for new parkrun following a very successful trial event...plus other  results... Report by Don Hale donhaleblog.blogspot.com/2025 A brand-new parkrun is set begin this Saturday at  Llandrillo-yn-Rhos,  which will offer keen  parkrunners  another exciting and varied choice of  events throughout North Wales.   This venue is one of several new parkrun initiatives and additional locations planned over the coming months in this region that could help further support this popular activity and  will also help to spread the number of entrants  amongst  many other current locations.   A very successful test run was organised last Saturday by run director Richard Peevor,  and his hard working team of volunteers and marshals , with invited runners ...