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The 2025 / 2026 Cross Country season began with the fixture at Margam Park on Saturday. We had Croups participating in the Women’s & V65’s race, as well as the Men’s race! Good running conditions saw croups absolutely smashing it on the day. Notable results include:

First home for the women was Lauren Kennard, and Tristan Rees was first home for the men!

🥈 F35: Louise Flynn

🥈 F65: Julie Scholey

Port Talbotside, to Stateside, 3️⃣ of our members were in action at Chicago Marathon!

Emma Wyatt-Haines achieved a wonderful new PB of 3:12:29! 🥳

James Heyman finished in a brilliant 2:52:53 🙌

Claire Johnson became the first EVER croups member over the age of 80 to finish a marathon! Her performance in Boston is also a Welsh record for 80+ marathon finishers, crossing the line in a super 6:22:56! 🤩

From Chicago to the Cotswolds, Rachel Walsh put in a brilliant time competing at the PSUK Marathon, running from Bath to the edge of Bristol and back! Rachel’s time of 3:31:36 landed her as 🥉 PSUK female 👏

To Oxford now, and we had two runners competing in the Half Marathon. Nicola Smith was first back for the club in 1:44:24, with Angharad Parry-Jones coming home in 2:27:53! Top work ladies! 👏

Finally, to Manchester, a huge well done to Owen Rivers & Rhys Thomas who competed at Manchester Half Marathon. Both ended their races with huge PBs, 1:21:20 & 1:16:13 respectively 👏