19 Jan CF64 Winter Race Report & Weekend Roundup 18-19 Jan 2020

This weekend saw the first of our three annual races, the CF64 Winter Race, so named because of its postcode and distance in miles…but such is the nature of the course, the time to get round it isn’t that relevant to most of the competitors. It’s more about enjoying some serious puddle action!

Having said that we must congratulate our Men’s and Women’s winners, John Morris (Les Croupiers) & Tammy Nurse who skated around in 38:43 & 45:56 respectively.

Full results can be found here.

The event was created and delivered by a large group of people, wonderfully choreographed by our extremely talented Race Director Lyn Evans. Lyn has taken event organisation to a new level for races in Cosmeston Lakes Country Park…he was the mastermind behind the recently launched parkrun at the same venue, which means he can now schedule his pre-race recce to mesh seamlessly with a Saturday morning check! To be honest, we were a bit nervous at that stage, as the tarmac sections of One Mile Lane were quite treacherous with black ice, and we had to divert parkrunners on to the grass verge at various points. Fortunately, whilst it was very cold overnight, the tarmac had a light dusting that was no problem to run on by race start on Sunday.

Some people who need our thanks are Debbie Williams (Volunteer Coordinator) and the 60-odd marshals and volunteers from P&D, SMR and White Rock who stood out in the cold and cheered you on. They rightly received some fantastic feedback on our Facebook page, many thanks to all of the runners who took the time to comment. And a big thank you to our resident ‘snapper’ Abyd Quinn Aziz…you can see his full gallery on the Facebook page (link above).

We would also like to thank Race Referee Ian McDonald, the team from St John Ambulance and the Park Rangers at Cosmeston Lakes. We were also grateful to the Ladies from Women Running Penarth, who provided the cakes raising funds for their charity, Maggie’s Cancer Care, which you can make further donations to via this link.

Hope to see all the runners back for another bit of winter sun in 2021!

In amongst all this organisational effort, we had P&D runners getting out there and racing on both weekend days.

Some sparkling parkrun performances in there…great running by Kevin Chalke at Cosmeston Lakes (avoiding the black ice!) scorching to a course PB and reclaiming the V55+ Age Record with a fine 19:46. He wasn’t however the first of us to finish there…Freddie Brown had a corker, finishing 3rd in 18:28, and hopefully beginning to see the benefits of Wednesday Club track sessions. Meanwhile over on Barry Island, Debbie Rees bagged another course PB, this time dipping under 29 minutes with 28:40, whilst up in the Midlands (Walsall), Cath Barker claimed 2nd Women’s finisher with a solid 21:23.

Cardiff parkrun

A total of 940 runners took part.

View full results for Cardiff parkrun event #634

Position	Gender Position	parkrunner	Club	Run Time
1	1	Daniel HAMILTON	Abingdon AC	00:15:37
33	1	Luticia THOMAS	Swansea Harriers AC	00:19:30
414	108	Margaret OGDEN	Penarth & Dinas Runners	00:28:31

Hackney Marshes parkrun

A total of 677 runners took part.

View full results for Hackney Marshes parkrun event #500

Position	Gender Position	parkrunner	Club	Run Time
1	1	Tom COWLING	Highgate Harriers	00:16:16
38	38	Michael MORGAN	Penarth & Dinas Runners	00:19:34
65	1	Hayley MORLEY	Unattached	00:20:30

Walsall Arboretum parkrun

A total of 567 runners took part.

View full results for Walsall Arboretum parkrun event #413

Position	Gender Position	parkrunner	Club	Run Time
1	1	Adam SMITH	Aldridge RC	00:16:54
22	1	Lisa WAKEMAN	Aldridge RC	00:19:57
37	2	Catherine BARKER	Penarth & Dinas Runners	00:21:23
40	38	Steven BARKER	Penarth & Dinas Runners	00:21:47

Penallta parkrun

A total of 186 runners took part.

View full results for Penallta parkrun event #234

Position	Gender Position	parkrunner	Club	Run Time
1	1	Dan SMITH	Unattached	00:18:48
9	1	Isabel CLARK	Blaenau Gwent	00:21:48
34	4	Louise HUNT	Penarth & Dinas Runners	00:24:39
126	47	Lindsey Jane HUNT	Penarth & Dinas Runners	00:31:53

Weymouth parkrun

A total of 449 runners took part.

View full results for Weymouth parkrun event #334

Position	Gender Position	parkrunner	Club	Run Time
1	1	Joshua AVENELL	Swansea Uni AC	00:16:40
18	1	Alexandra DOOR	Egdon Heath Harriers	00:20:14
142	114	Laurie SMITH	Penarth & Dinas Runners	00:25:19
198	50	Katie CLARK	Penarth & Dinas Runners	00:27:06

Haverfordwest parkrun

A total of 82 runners took part.

View full results for Haverfordwest parkrun event #123

Position	Gender Position	parkrunner	Club	Run Time
1	1	Oliver WILLIAMS	Pontypridd Roadents AC	00:18:30
17	1	Katharine GREEN	Pembrokeshire Harriers AAC	00:25:31
34	8	Beverley WARBURTON	Penarth & Dinas Runners	00:28:42

Springburn parkrun, Glasgow

A total of 197 runners took part.

View full results for Springburn parkrun, Glasgow event #287

Position	Gender Position	parkrunner	Club	Run Time
1	1	Fergus REID	Springburn Harriers	00:17:44
37	1	Imogen PORTER	Unattached	00:23:41
117	27	Janice CLEMENT	Penarth & Dinas Runners	00:31:04

Barry Island parkrun

A total of 202 runners took part.

View full results for Barry Island parkrun event #244

Position	Gender Position	parkrunner	Club	Run Time
1	1	Luke WILLIAMS	Inverness Harriers AAC	00:18:04
7	1	Elin Carys MORGAN	Unattached	00:20:31
71	58	James BUCKINGHAM	Penarth & Dinas Runners	00:26:50
95	17	Debbie REES	Penarth & Dinas Runners	00:28:40

Grangemoor parkrun

A total of 239 runners took part.

View full results for Grangemoor parkrun event #219

Position	Gender Position	parkrunner	Club	Run Time
1	1	Daniel SOLTYS	Royal Navy AC	00:18:06
19	1	Natalya CHEDZEY	Unattached	00:23:04
55	48	Steve GOODFELLOW	Penarth & Dinas Runners	00:26:45
57	50	Mark TAYLOR	Penarth & Dinas Runners	00:26:49
89	22	Arabella CALDER	Penarth & Dinas Runners	00:28:53
99	25	Andrea GOODFELLOW	Penarth & Dinas Runners	00:29:20
125	44	Bethan APGLYN	Penarth & Dinas Runners	00:31:09

Cosmeston Lakes parkrun

A total of 246 runners took part.

View full results for Cosmeston Lakes parkrun event #7

Position	Gender Position	parkrunner	Club	Run Time
1	1	James THIE	Cardiff AAC	00:17:28
3	3	Frederick BROWN	Penarth & Dinas Runners	00:18:28
9	9	Kevin CHALKE	Penarth & Dinas Runners	00:19:46
28	1	Janet HOLMES	Les Croupiers RC	00:22:31
64	52	Christian OGDEN	Penarth & Dinas Runners	00:25:46
67	14	Lisa CLEARY	Penarth & Dinas Runners	00:25:51
88	20	Sophie GOTT	Penarth & Dinas Runners	00:26:52
101	26	Jan FROST	Penarth & Dinas Runners	00:27:50
102	27	Helen GRIFFITHS	Penarth & Dinas Runners	00:27:51
104	76	Richard JACKSON	Penarth & Dinas Runners	00:28:00
127	94	Ian David WARBURTON	Penarth & Dinas Runners	00:29:26
129	34	Sarah LEES	Penarth & Dinas Runners	00:29:47
239	132	Martyn HALL	Penarth & Dinas Runners	00:43:50

Another P&D athlete who’s been working extremely hard over the winter is Nathan Christoforato, putting in lots of metronomic track sessions down at Jenner Park and solid long runs on the road, often very early in the morning before work. Well Nathan reaped the rewards today, with a tremendous new PB at the Speedway 10k near Chepstow. A quality field had been assembled, and this dragged Nathan round at sub-six minute mile pace for the awesome time of 36:13. Top work, fella! (Congratulations also to two ex-members who produced massive PBs at the same race, Ben Butler-Madden just outside 32 minutes and Paul Morton close on the heels of Nathan!)

Finally, we have our first Marathoner of the year! Paul McGilvray took on the Gloucester Marathon and finished in the sterling time of 3:32:13, which was good enough for 78th overall and 11th in the MM50 Age Category…well done, Paul!