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RACE ROUND-UP FOR NW ROAD RUNNERS Report by Don Hale. https://donhaleblog.blogspot.com www.welshmastersathletics.co.uk   There were eleven races and/or parkruns recorded by North Wales Road Runners over the past weekend, with the Conwy parkrun, and the Anglesey 10k and half-marathon already reported on this blog. Other race results:  OULTON PARK: *Cheshire:  Three NWRRC members hit the track running last Sunday at the  Oulton Park 10k and 5k races  with all of them winning their respective age categories.  Kevin Higgins  won his M60 cat in the 10k race after finishing 63rd in 51.59, and  Tony Gibson  was just one place behind in 52.15, and he also won his M65 age cat. Meanwhile,  Steve Gardner  also won his M60 cat in the 5k race with a good performance in 7th place overall in 19.19 . After the race, Kevin admitted:  “It was a very undulating course, but this was my best time for over two years.” *Kevin Higgins (*above left), with Tony Gibson, and (*right) Steve Gardner. TRAFFORD 10K:

Report by Don Hale.  North Wales Road Runner Jonathan Kettle set a hot pace on a cold day but soon hit top gear on the famous Oulton Park motor racing circuit to claim his third win in the annual 16-miler race in the past three years to celebrate a unique hat-trick of prestigious victories. Jonathan Kettle completed a unique hat-trick of wins at Oulton Park Jonathan was one of three club runners who competed in a variety of rare ‘live’ races around the brand-new traffic-free course at Tarporley, last Sunday, which is also the famous home of the British Touring Car Championships, and the British Superbike Championships. Jonathan won this ‘Grand Prix’ running event in just 1 hr 37 mins 18 secs, and also dipped under the chequered flag to claim his M45 age category prize.  He also recorded several best chip times during laps of the race and  finishing two-minutes ahead of the 2nd placed runner.  Afterwards however, Jonathan modestly played down his remarkable achievement, saying: ‘It was