Well it’s a few days now since I turned 60 so time to reflect on how the day went. So the idea was to run from the Siabod @ Storiel (in Bangor) to The Siabod at Pentrefelin, estimated at 29 miles & taking 5 & a quarter hours. To add a start & tail symmetry initially I would head North to Bangor Pier to pick up the start of the Llyn coastal path & to

As a few of you will know I’m turning 60 on the 23rd of March of this year & have been trying to figure out how to celebrate it as well as what challenges I want to set myself during the coming year. Again as a few of you will know my 50th (can it really be 10 years ago) was my best birthday ever doing an epic 56+ miler taking in Cader, Y Lliwedd

Fortunately storm Claudia passed through on Friday leaving (combined) over 3,500 runners to enjoy better conditions for both the Penmaenmawr Fell Race on Saturday & the Conwy Half Marathon on Sunday (15th & 16th Nov respectively). Myself & Dorina were to be at both, marshalling on the Pen & running the Conwy. Firstly note if you are ever marshalling at Cae Coch do not take the road up from Rowen, it is not suitable for

My running mileage so far this year has been less than half of a typical year leading into this fabulous event. Add to that a lack of big races which I use to run in June, August, September & early October (typically 6/7 races of between 13 & 54 miles), I knew that any chance of recording a sub 3:40 time (as I’d done in my first 6 Snowdon Marathon’s) was totally un-realistic. So my

So whilst I & various support runners were enjoying ourselves out on Moel y Gest there were plenty of other activities going on at our Cafe at The Eisteddfa Fishery which I’ll aim to outline here-in. My apologies for any un-intended errors but I wasn’t there most of the time & even when I was I wasn’t really ‘there’. Kevin Hitch was the first non-runner to arrive & join Dorina a little before 8:00 am