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*The start of the 2024 Deganwy Dash with Jonathan Kettle and the leaders. ENTRIES NOW OPEN FOR THE 2025 DEGANWY DASH & ROHAN'S CHARITY RUN... FRIDAY 30th May 2025 START TIME 7PM.  https://secure.onreg.com/onreg2/front/step1.php?id=6781 *Pictured above - Deganwy Dash race organisers John Hatton and Carla Green John and Carla’s Deganwy Dash voted the ‘Best Sporting Event of the Year 2024,’ and raised thousands for Children's Cancer Charities... Don Hale Blog: John and Carla’s Deganwy Dash voted the ‘Best Spor... https://donhaleblog.blogspot.com/2024/11/john-and-carlas-deganwy-dash-voted-best.html?spref=tw Report by Don Hale. https://donhaleblog.blogspot.com www.welshmastersathletics.co.uk FRIDAY 30th May 2025 START TIME 19:00  https://secure.onreg.com/onreg2/front/step1.php?id=6781 RACE LICENCE APPLIED FOR:  RACE HQ DEGANWY PROMENADE - Race Number collection from 5:00pm ENTRY FEE £15 AFFILIATED £17 NON AFFILIATED  ALL PROCEEDS GO TO CANCER CHARITIES....

*Picture above - Deganwy Dash race organisers John Hatton and Carla Green John and Carla’s Deganwy Dash voted the ‘Best Sporting Event of the Year,’ and raises thousands for Children's Cancer Charities. Report by Don Hale. https://donhaleblog.blogspot.com www.welshmastersathletics.co.uk   The Deganwy Dash was voted the Best Sporting event of the year within Conwy County at the annual Conwy Sports Awards last Friday night at Venue Cymru. Well organised by  John Hatton  and  Carla Green  from  North Wales Road Runners , this popular annual 5-mile race from Deganwy Quay to the RSPB Nature Reserve, and back via Conwy Cob, always attracts over 350-plus mixed ability runners who raise thousands of pounds for charity. The main charity includes generous donations to Children’s Cancer charities, and for the past few years it has been run in memory of a young local student Rohan Ingley, who sadly lost his life due to cancer, and has been known as 'Rohan's Run.' Award...

*Martin Green (*above), was the first man back at Conwy parkrun. Bright, beautiful, and fast at Conwy parkrun despite the Friday night Dash... Report by Don Hale. https://donhaleblog.blogspot.com   There were a good few tired legs at Conwy parkrun last Saturday morning following the participation of many athletes in the previous evening’s 5-mile charity event at Rohan’s Run formerly known as the Deganwy Dash. Despite this slight handicap, this week’s parkrun was backed by beautifully warm and sunny weather conditions, and still attracted over 300 mixed ability entrants from all over the UK. North Wales Road runners claimed five age cat victories from thirteen members, and  Martin Green  claimed the top spot overall as the first male finisher.  Martin also won his VM45 age cat with an outstanding run in just 17 minutes and 19 seconds, whilst his talented wife  Carla Green , also hit good form as the second club finisher, in 10th place overall, and she was the 3rd...

*North Wales Road runner Mal Preece (*above) at the London Marathon. Mixed emotions but a great experience for athletes at the London Marathon...plus other results and updates... Report by Don Hale. https://donhaleblog.blogspot.com www.welshmastersathletics.co.uk   Seven North Wales Road Runners competed in the televised London Marathon last Sunday amongst a mass participation of some 50,000 runners, who raised tens of thousands of pounds for various worthy charities, with many athletes recalling mixed emotions and personal best times! Mal Preece  was the first NWRRC member home with an excellent time of 3 hours and 20 minutes, and he celebrated following a great new PB time. Afterwards he confirmed:  “Very pleased with a new six-minute PB. I ran my first marathon back in 2011 at Chester, and to date I’ve knocked 20 minutes off that time. Looking to chip away my latest PB again next year with GFA time. My goal was to get my qualifying time for Berlin next year, which I ac...

*Some of the NWRRC members (*above) at Rohan's Run. Bumper attendance at Rohan’s Run charity Dash from Deganwy prom... Report by Don Hale. Photographs by Anthony Paul Davies. https://donhaleblog.blogspot.com www.welshmastersathletics.co.uk   Rohan’s Run, formerly known as the Deganwy Dash, attracted a bumper attendance last Friday night, to help both commemorate and celebrate the life of an extraordinary young student, Rohan Ingley,  who tragically lost his life to leukaemia in August 2018, aged just 17. This popular annual race changed its name a couple of years ago as a special tribute to Rohan, from Abergele, who was a remarkable scholar, and a keen sportsman, with the event now raising thousands of pounds for the  Children vs Cancer  charity and associated funds. More than three-hundred runners turned-out in magnificent sun-drenched conditions on Deganwy Promenade to run this challenging 5-mile Dash, which followed the Conwy Estuary towards Conwy Castle, and then...