CYMDEITHAS WELSH 2008 AWST RHEDWYR FELL CYLCHGRAWN MYNYDD RUNNERS NEWSLETTER CYMRU www. wfra.org.uk ASSOCIATION AUGUST 2008 Photo; Gwynfor James The inaugural WFSRtAarJtuonifotrhNeofritnhaWl oafletshSeerWieFs RfinAish2e0d0w8itJhutnhieorMNoeolrSthiaWboadlerasceSoenri1e9sthaJt uMlyo. TerloSpihaibesowdeirneJauwlay rded to all those lis - ted below. Full results Table is available on the WFRA website. Male U/16 - 1st Tecwyn Evans (Menai), Male U/14 - 1st Owain James (Eryri), 2nd Morgan Evans (Menai), Male U/12 - 1st Rhys James (Menai), Female U/16 - 1st Sarah Livett (Menai), 2nd Lisa Peters (Menai), Female U/14 - 1st Elin James (Eryri), Female U/12 - 1st Bron - wen Jenkinson (Eryri). We hope to organise a similar Series in 2009. RP Calendar Updates 2009 Format Change Rhinogs Race WFRA Championhips Ras y Mynydd (20th August) Goodrich Hill Race (Sunday 11th October Please note that this race has been 19th October) - 6.5 miles / 1250 and Series Races cancelled. feet ascent. Start time 2.30pm. Please note that this race is only suitable for experienced *Source of the Severn (Sun - From Ye Hostelrie Pub, Goodrich Do you think we should day 7th September) - 9 miles. (2 m W of Ross on Wye). Pre make any changes for 2009? fell runners who are also good entry £8 (£10 u/a). EOD £2 extra. Multi terrain. Start time 11.00am. Is the present system of scoring Navigators. Further details from Martin EOD £5 (£7 u/a). From picnic fair? The longer races result in a Green, 16 Park Road, Five Acres, area, Hafren Forest, Llanidloes lower points score for most run - Coleford, Glos, GL16 7QS. Tel (GR 858869). Further details Paul ners. Should we use a points sys - 01594 836408. Beeson (01686) 411354). tem based on positions? *Three Peaks Corndon Clas - Should the Open/Welsh sic (Sunday 16th November) - 6 Champs become 3 from 4 (2 short Gill Harris miles. Start time 11.00am. EOD £5 CONGRATULATIONS and 2 medium) and have a sepa - We are sad to report that (£7 u/a).From Miners Arms, Congratulations to the fol - rate long race Championship? Gill Harris of Mercia Fell lowing: Priestweston. Further details Paul Runners has died. The Beeson 01686 411354. Please let us have your views on Liz Tristram and Mark who any of the above or your own pro - WFRA would like to *Rhayader Rant (Sunday 8th recently got married. posals for change. February 2009) - 8 miles. Start send their condolences Andrea Roberts and Nigel Contact [email protected]. to all family and friends. Rowlands who recently got time 11.00am. EOD £5 (£7 u/a). engaged. From Carndeyddr Hall, Rhayader. Further details Paul Beeson 01686 411354. Members Discounts New Race . * These 3 races comprise the new Mid Wales Winter Off Road The shops listed below have confirmed that they will give TAVERN Series. Ross WFRA members a discount on purchases. This may not be on all items (eg sale items). Discount is normally 10% unless in - TRIAL dicated otherwise. 8miles 1900’ South Wales Reporter You must show your WFRA membership card. Sat. 30th August BENARD’S GALLERY JOE BROWN SHOPS Start time 2.30pm. If you feel that the website and Craig y Don, Llandudno Llanberis and Capel Curig Newsletter is North Wales biased BLACKS COTSWOLD Kinmel Arms Tavern this is only because we receive Betws y Coed and Betws y Coed Llandyrnog little copy from the south. We Llandudno RUN AND BECOME GR109652 need a South Wales reporter to CONWY OUTDOOR SHOP Cardiff Over 18. write Race Reports for the Press, Conwy RUNNING BEAR Entry on day £4.00 WFRA website and WFRA New - ULTIMATE OUTDOORS Altrincham sletter. If you can help please con - Betws y Coed, Skipton, Y WARWS Further details: tact any Committee member. If Keswick and Lancaster Beddgelert MARTIN CORTVRIEND you are a Race Organiser please If there are other retailers members would like to be included 01824 790534 send us Race Reports for the web - please contact any Committee member site and Newsletter. 2 CYMDEITHAS RHEDWYR MYNYDD CYMRU AWST 2008 AUGUST WELSH FELL RUNNERS ASSOCIATION ?! *x! to Eurovision! Sat. 24th May 2008 An account of an attempt on the Paddy Buckley Round Huw and Moo are whooping and we are off heading down the road from Duncan Elliott the Pinnacle Café at Capel Curig. scent of Carnedd y Gribau and we are tum going up The sun is out and the skies clear. soon contouring on grass and drop - Foel Ddu. Not a Snowdon opens its jaws to the south ping off to Bwlch Rhediad.I point out good idea to and as we pound over the footbridge the crags behind us that we have stop flying bal - behind Plas y Brenin, the waves on missed and we stampede on. last in full flow! Llynnau Mymbyr are ominously lively. The party atmosphere is still with us It is a steady On Mayday weekend on my last big as we carve our way through the trudge up but run the lake was a millpond mirroring heather up to Moel Meirch.I. It does we are soon an azure sky. Today we have the sky not even seem tedious with a gang of heading across but the waters are choppy. Little do I mates and the sunshine, and we are to Moel yr realise what part the wind will have to soon running off and past the Hydd and off to play in my big day out. sparkling waters of Llyn Edno. the tramway. In The Bowland machine had cranked I have to warn Leigh what tops are the autumn I itself into action and on this leg I have coming up so he can be ready to had completely seven supporters with Steve navigat - record the little rocky tops that this lost it here and ing and Leigh as my wingman. part of the Paddy throws at you. It has wandered Why have so many turned out to run taken a few reccies and consultation around on a today? Perhaps it is the thought of a with Yiannis to actually establish package tour Saturday with Eurovision that has which is which. Even the bible of the for the bewil - Duncan arriving at the summit of Moel Siabod lured them to the fleshpots of Snow - Nuttalls has Ysgafell Wen marked dered, before finally dropping onto the the cairn I have built. Now for the donia. where the Paddy calls Unnamed or we tramway. I had a GPS with me but it tricky bit that you really do not want Soon we are walking and trotting have called Three Tops. Today it’s was little use in the clag and it got clag for. Even Leigh would not wel - through the forest. I know the pace has easy. We can see them all and they are even more useless later on on the as - come it here as we head up through to be faster then a Bob Graham so I try quickly ticked off. The wind cranks up cent of Cnicht. the anonymous crags. I had sadly to run on every possible section. I from the east. Andy Farmer and Dave Cottam have watched this on a PowerPoint the night before but it is still difficult to pick out - probably loose time pointing out Soon we are on Allt Fawr and I have run up from the quarries to meet us anything conspicuous to guide you. mountains to the others, for whom the feeling that we now heading back and there are now nine of us jogging We reach the edge of Llynnau Diffwys Snowdonia is all a new experience. I to the core of the round. No one could along the traverse to Moelwyn Bach. so I know we are slightly too far right. get told to shut up –it won’t be the first describe a view down to Blaenau as Eurovision evasion kicks in again! The Will makes for the lake to cool off but time! being full of eastern promise but today lake is below us and in the hot sun and As we reach the summit we are eight the slate almost shines in the hot sun. out of the wind you could perhaps be - I do not realise that he is suffering in minutes up and Steve runs ahead to The wind keeps us deceptively cool lieve there was a Costa Blaenau (if you the sun. get us across to the grass. We have dis - and it is only as we descend into the were very gullible). Andy points out I am now telling Leigh where the cussed tactics before the start –he will quarries that we realise how hot it ac - where Wynn has brought them up to route is and he uses all his feral in - just get ahead and navigate leaving the tually is. It still does not trigger any the dam, as he had no idea of where stincts to sniff the lines and trods out. party atmosphere behind to follow. warning bells that I should get a hat on he was going to get to my quarry sup - Today he is brilliant on a route he has On the grass now and we are run - and we are quickly over the electric port- clueless in a caring sort of way. never seen before. We descend to the ning well in bright sunshine. The wind fence and heading down to the lake At the col we head up at a much bet - dam and I tell him the way up and is at our backs and pushes us along. outflow. On my first reccy this was an - ter pace then when we had reccied in across to the wall.