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*Some of the NWRRC members pictured at the 2023 event in Deganwy. DEGANWY DASH 5-MILER - ENTRIES NOW CLOSED! Rohan's Run - in loving memory of Rohan Ingley. *Pictured above - the late Rohan Ingley. FRIDAY 31st May 2024. START TIME 19:00  RACE LICENCE APPLIED FOR:  RACE HQ DEGANWY PROMENADE - Race Number collection from 5:00pm ENTRY FEE £12 AFFILIATED £14 NON AFFILIATED  ALL PROCEEDS GO TO YOUNG LIVES VS CANCER, this was one of Rohan's chosen charities.  This race starts and finishes on the Deganwy Promenade  This picturesque run follows the Conwy Estuary track to the RSPB reserve and returns along the same route.  *ENTRIES FOR THIS RACE HAVE NOW CLOSED AND HAVE REACHED THE 350 LIMIT . MEDAL FOR EVERY FINISHER  TROPHIES IN EVERY AGE CATEGORY This is the link to the entry details:   https://secure.onreg.com/onreg2/front/step1.php?id=6176 *The run directors are John Hatton and Carla Green from NWRRC. Other details are available via email : greenc72@gmail.com *This is my blog repor

*Deganwy Dash race official John Hatton (*above) with Beverly Miles Chance meeting at Tesco led to Beverly donating funds to Deganwy Dash cancer charities in memory of her mother.  Report by Don Hale.   A chance meeting in Tesco at Llandudno Junction this week by joint Deganwy Dash race official John Hatton with checkout worker Beverly Miles led to a surprise but welcome cash donation towards children’s cancer charities. John, who has helped to organise and promote this popular 5-mile Dash for many years with NWRRC colleague Carla Green, said this year’s event, which will be held tonight (Friday 24th June) at 7pm, will now be known as Rohan’s Run, in memory of an extraordinary young student, Rohan Ingley, who tragically  lost his long battle with leukaemia in August 2018, aged just 17. *Rohan Ingley (*above), who tragically lost his life in August 2018. Rohan from Abergele, was a highly talented all-rounder, who excelled at sport and music, and was a very popular student at the King’s

WELSH SOLOIST SIONED TERRY SET TO APPEAR AT  DEGANWY 5-MILE DASH AS A TRIBUTE TO AN EXTRAORDINARY YOUNG STUDENT. Report by Don Hale. Photo's courtesy of Rohan's family. The classically trained mezzo-soprano and Welsh soloist Sioned Terry will be a special guest at this month’s Deganwy Dash - now known as Rohan’s Run - and will perform shortly before the start of this special tribute race to an extraordinary young student. Sioned, from North Wales, is an internationally renowned artist and has shared the stage with a host of well-known musicians, singers, and entertainers, in addition to numerous outstanding Welsh male voice choirs throughout the UK and abroad. She has also performed on two separate occasions for the Royal Family, and at many top sporting events, including a special performance for the Welsh Commonwealth Games team. Sioned has told race organisers John and Kay Hatton and Carla Green, that she is delighted to have been invited to perform at this particular 5-mile