Races > Castles | Father Time | Barry 40
For reasons which are doubtless lost in the mists of time, all our races are specialist in one way or another.
The Old Father Time Road Race is open only to vets (sometimes referred to as ’masters,’ which currently means women of 35 and older, and men of 40 and older). It is run on the same course as the womens’ race above. It will next be held on Sunday, 27 December 2009.
The Barry 40 Mile Track Race is open to anyone to enter. Numbers are strictly limited as a ratio of 1 marshal to 1 to 2 runners is needed to ensure accurate distance recording. It is held in March in Jenner Park Stadium (home of Barry Town Football Club). Facilities may be fairly described as basic. The date for 2009 is March 8.
The Kay Pritchard Memorial Road Race. We regret that we will no longer run the Ladies’ Fireworks 5 from 2009. Over the years the Fireworks 5 has moved from being one of the few (if not only) Ladies-only races in South Wales to one of many events, notably the Race for Life series. (See our links to sites for Women’s Running.) The advent also of many more ‘beginner-friendly events’ has also had an impact on the race and unfortunately the Club has decided that the 2008 event was the final running of the race due to only 35 entrants and the subsequent financial loss made on the event.
Starting in 2005, we’ve branched out with a Summer Duathlon Series at Llandow Race Circuit, Nr Cowbridge, Vale of Glamorgan. We hope to host them again in 2009.
Finally, the Welsh Castles Relay is held in the second weekend in June and run from Caernarfon in North Wales to Cardiff in South Wales, with an overnight stop in Newtown. It is not strictly a relay: runners do not pass a baton to team-mates; and each stage is a self-contained race. The 2010 race (which will be the 28th) will take place over the second full weekend in June—ie the 12th and 13th; entries will open in February and will close at the end of March.
We are also heavily involved in the Cardiff Parkruns which are held every Saturday morning at 9 am and are free to enter.
The main mass participation race in Cardiff remains the KRUF 10K, which is held in September and organised to raise money for the Kidney Research Unit Foundation (KRUF). The other Cardiff Clubs used to organise their own races. San Domenico have moved their 20 mile race to that much loved part of Cardiff, Merthyr Tydfil. Pegasus no longer have the numbers to hold either of their races. Penarth & Dinas held a fine 10K in Penarth until planning objections prevented the 2001 event. They still organise the Cosmeston Relays which seem to get more popular each year. Since 2006 they have organised the Porthkerry Plod
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Croups member Ruth Pickvance and Nick Janvier from Brackla Harriers co-ordinate the Atlantic College 10K (March 22, 2009 in Llantwit Major, not for from Cardiff.
There is also a series of 5k races in May, June, and July organised by Graeme Finlayson. The Cardiff Half Marathon will be run again in 2009.
Local running shop Run and Become organise a series of 2, 3, and 4 Mile races, and a 4 X 1 Mile relay, all in Pontcanna Fields, Cardiff.
We would of course be happy to hear from any profligate local business people looking to burn money in public and whose tastes don’t run to stray animals and whose budgets don’t run to hospital wings or football clubs.
Races > Castles | Father Time | Barry 40
Last updated 6 September 2009
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