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*Pictured above - the 'naked' athletes from North Wales Road Runners who took part in their festive handicap run last Sunday from Llandudno prom.  North Wales club runners enjoyed their windy ‘naked’ festive handicap run and annual prizegiving.. Report by Don Hale Photos by John Hatton. donhaleblog.blogspot.com/2025   Fifteen members from North Wales Road Running Club braved gale force winds and an extremely challenging 4.5-mile plus course to complete their festive handicap race on Sunday. The event started and finished by Llandudno Pier and travelled along the promenade before climbing up by the side of the Little Orme to the town’s ‘Welcome’ sign, then following an equally undulating route back home. This was not a first past-the-post race as such, with the handicap results based on the initial estimates from competing athletes on their predicted times for this race, against the actual finishing times. It also had the added restriction of being a ‘Naked Run,’ so n...

Some of the NWRRC club members who took part in the Christmas Handicap race from Llandudno promenade to the Welcome sign last Sunday. Christmas Handicap success for North Wales runners Report by Don Hale. Photographs courtesy of Tom Roberts, Mark Jessett and John Hatton. North Wales Road Runners staged their annual Christmas Handicap race on Llandudno promenade last Sunday morning with 19 athletes competing in a unique social-distancing, time-trial type event, due to extensive Covid-19 restrictions now affecting all live sporting events. Partially sighted runner Daniel Owens with his guide Carla Green together with a magnificent rainbow in the background. It was the first time in many years that this event has been run along the promenade to the Welcome sign and back, after previously following a less-hillier climb from West Shore, and up to and around the old gun sites. The race was held in relatively mild conditions, and fortunately included a brief window within the showery weather,...