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CARLA LED THE WAY DURING INTERNATIONAL RELAY CHALLENGE

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Carla Green hit top form during the International relay challenge   *Report by Don Hale. Photographs by Steve Jeffery and Tom Roberts. North Wales Road Runner Carla Green led the way for her Welsh club during an exciting International virtual relay challenge last weekend with the prestigious Spanish outfit,  Fondistes Penedes Running Club (FPRC), from Vilafranca, near Barcelona. Carla was part of a mixed team of athletes, who each flew the flag for Wales during a unique and combined event that included competition both with, and against, their Spanish counterparts. She played a starring individual role as a worthy member of the winning team, and was also the 1 st  Welsh runner to finish, in addition to being the 1 st  F45 cat winner, and the 3 rd  fastest female overall.  And to top all that, Carla also recorded the 2 nd   best female age performance percentage. Pictured (above) the first wave and (below) the second wave of NWRRC runners in the international relay challenge This unique

NORTH WALES RUNNERS FACE SPANISH INQUISITION

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  Report by Don Hale. Photographs by Steve Jeffery. Some twenty North Wales runners will be competing with, and against, an equal number of Spanish athletes this weekend in a unique virtual 5k team challenge. Kevin Slattery, the chairman of North Wales Road Running Club, has organised the event with the  Fondistes Penedes Running Club in Vilafranca, near Barcelona. It will involve a total of ten teams of four, with two members from each club making up a team.                                                                         Kevin Slattery The idea is to create a new sporting friendship association with a mixed team of male and female runners, and the intention of trying to make each team roughly the same mix of abilities, based on previous 5k times. Kevin explained: ‘ Raimon, their club chair, and me, have carefully put together the teams so that the times of all four team members add up to roughly the same for each team. There is only 3-minutes total difference between the 10 te