Leo Holmes' Roundup w/c 12th Jan

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It was a big weekend of racing for the club, with Croups in action on both Saturday & Sunday. Croups exploits in the Welsh XC Champs will be covered in a separate roundup, as the achievements deserve a post of their own.

Therefore, we begin in Muscat, where Claire Johnson completed the 10k. Clare had a great race, racing alongside (and beating) people a quarter of her age! 🙌

Elsewhere on Saturday, we had several members taking part in the masters indoor championships.

Gab Stuokus finished🥉 British M35 & 🥇 Welsh in the M35 indoor 3000m. Kieran McDonnell also set new Welsh V70 800m record of 2:36, beating the current by 4 seconds 😮

Oli Williams continues his excellent form, finishing 🥇 in the 800 & 3000m!

Mel James starred, achieving🥇 in the 60m and M80 long jump! 👏

Claire Bruce was also in action in the 800 & 3,000m. Colin Williams finished as masters champion in the 800m & 400m, and finished a fab 🥈 in the 4x200m!

The main headline of the day for Sunday was the Lliswerry 8, an event always popular with the club.

A huge congratulations to Emily Fell, who finished a brilliant 🥇 woman overall in a brilliant 47:51 👏 Craig Blake builds on his form from Valencia 10k, and was first home for the men in 44:48! 🙌

A huge well done too, to Jeff Cox who achieved 🥈 M60, & Nynke Kuiper who finished 🥉 Female Senior - an amazing effort from Nynke given she also raced at the Welsh XC champs the day before! 👏

Lastly, but very much not least, we move onto the UTMB’s in Cornwall. A huge well done to James Vassallo who finished 🥈 M50 in the Arc 25! 🙌

We also wanted to shoutout Jerome Edwards, who attempted the arc 100 UTMB race. Jerome put in a stunning effort, making it to Lands End 12 hours in before having to withdraw.