Another weekend, another opportunity for P&D members to score points in the 2021 Club Championships with a Virtual 3 mile offering from Welsh Athletics. But also a chance for two of our gang to complete personal challenges they have taken on during the "age of lockdown"...
Definitely a weekend of two halves...
Despite the present dearth of real "in-person" race opportunities, Penarth and Dinas Runners this week kicked off their annual Club Championships with a virtual offering from Welsh Athletics. A series of time trial efforts have been scheduled over the next couple of months, full details...
After Club success in the Women age categories at the Welsh Regional 3 Mile Road Relays back in January, the 'Team Management' (a.k.a Lisa, Kit and Simon W) were fairly hopeful and confident we could carry forward the momentum into the National event, which had slightly...
With the whole country locked down again, running events are understandably few and far between. However Welsh Athletics set up Virtual Road Relays in the different regions (South, East & West) just before Christmas, and 22 members of P&D signed up to run a solo...
As trailed in the Weekly Roundup earlier in the week, Club Chairman Simon Williamson had chosen this weekend to be the "Last Chance Saloon" for improving his 2020 5k time. This was very much a personal 'vanity project', but he'd managed to persuade some decidedly-nippy...
Penarth and Dinas Runners might have concluded their Club Championships for 2020, but there's still a bit of the year left to complete some internal Club challenges. Monday evening's dual-session programme was this week replaced by one of our bi-annual Handicap 5 mile races, and of...
As twenty seven of the "Blue & Yellow Army" lined up on the start for a wet and windy Lliswerry 8 on Sunday 26th January, the first Club Championship race of the year, none of us could have predicted how the rest of the 2020...
This rocky, roller coaster of a year has thrown all sorts of brickbats at us, as individuals and within the groups we associate with. Penarth and Dinas Runners, like all the running clubs in the UK (and probably the world) has had to adapt to the...
I have been nominated by Colin as the next "In the Spotlight" candidate so for all the fact that I have been present a bit more rarely of late than has been the case of the previous years, only too happy to wade in...