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*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

*The late Rohan Ingley (*above) was the inspiration for Rohan's Run. There is still time to enter the Deganwy Dash/Rohan’s Run – a special 5-mile tribute race to an extraordinary young student – and to help raise funds for children’s cancer charities.  https://secure.onreg.com/onreg2/front/step1.php?id=4754 Report by Don Hale. Photo's courtesy of Rohan's family. North Wales Road Runners are hoping to attract four-hundred runners of any age or ability to the revived 5-mile Deganwy Dash race on Friday June 24th, 2022. The event with a 7pm start, will both commemorate and celebrate the life of an extraordinary young man, Rohan Ingley, who tragically lost his long battle with leukaemia in August 2018, aged just 17. This challenging but picturesque 5-mile race, which starts on Deganwy promenade, will take runners along the Conwy Estuary footpaths towards the Cob and Conwy Castle, and then across the footbridge to the RSPB Nature Reserve, before returning home via the reverse rou

*Rohan Ingley (third from left) with (l-r) with his mother Aradhana, sister Shreya,  and  his father Sanjay KEEPING ROHAN’S LEGACY ALIVE Charity relay run by club members as a tribute to an extraordinary student   Report by Don Hale   North Wales Road Runners will be hitting the fundraising trail again next month in a bid to raise money for Children’s Cancer Charities, and as a tribute to an extraordinary teenager, Rohan Ingley, who tragically lost his life to cancer in 2018. The enterprising members were determined to continue with their valuable charity support after a popular 5-mile race planned at Deganwy during June was postponed for the second year running due to continued Covid-19 restrictions. Club officials therefore have opted for a special relay event to be staged on Llandudno promenade on Sunday June 6th (10am) - for club members only - and including mixed teams of three athletes running a split of 1.66 miles for each leg, to match the 5-mile target. All proceeds from this