DUE to the latest 5k club championship event being held at Ruthin last weekend only two NWRRC members remained to proudly fly the flag at the Conwy parkrun.

Both athletes ran well and won their age categories amongst another popular entry of 176 varied entrants.

Despite very wet conditions underfoot with another puddle-filled and muddy course, Road Runner Will Williams continued his recent good form to finish in 4th place overall and he was also the 1st MV50 cat in 18.55.

And veteran athlete Don Hale celebrated a surprise return to the Conwy parkrun following serious injury, which has kept him out of action since July, by winning his MV70 age cat in 75th place overall in 27.15. Due to this long delay, this was Don’s first event in this new age cat.

Afterwards Don admitted: “It’s a been a long hard recovery battle and although I am still well short of fitness, it was great to be back running again. Parkrun is so important for both mental and physical well-being and sometimes we take this for granted when long term injury or illness occurs.”

Local sports shop promoter Tom Carter from Abergele was the first man back at Conwy, and he also recorded a new PB in a cat and mouse dash with Simon Cole (GOG Triathlon Club). Tom won his MV40 age cat in 16.57, with Simon 2nd overall and 2nd MV40 in 17.08, and Osian Griffiths finished 3rd and he was 1st in his SM30 cat in 18.29. The 1st female athlete was Elisha Price who also won her SW30 age cat in 22.54.

*This is the link to the provisional results at Conwy parkrun: www.parkrun.org.uk/conwy/results/latestresults/.