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Report by Don Hale Conwy endurance runner, Josie Davies finally completed her gruelling virtual Everest 135-mile ‘Ultra-Everest’ challenge, and trebled her fundraising target for St David's Hospice.                                                                  Josie Davies A delighted Josie said: ‘I just can’t thank everybody enough for all the generosity and overwhelming support I have received whilst completing this challenge to raise funds for St David’s Hospice.  ‘As I completed the 135-miles quicker than expected, I decided to continue and see how many miles I could actually do in the time given, and finally ran 200.52 miles.                                                 Josie's endurance medal and fundraising certificate ‘I seriously couldn’t have done this without the support of everyone, your generous donations, the company of my special friend Gwenan Carter on some of my long runs, and my little boy Jordan, who also did his bit in keeping me company whilst chattin

  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