Race News – w/c 19/05/2025

Every week, we will try and create a short report on the past week running event and future ‘gatherings’ either social or organised (official or unofficial) runs. – On our Member Facebook group, there will be link to the updated spreadsheet.

Wednesday 14th saw Michael Smithcompeting in Caradoc Classic Fell Series race – Well done Michael!

Friday 16th – Sunday 18th saw our Oliver Barry competing in the UTS Ultra – After smashing many miles on Friday night / Saturday morning he unfortunately had to pull out due to injury on Saturday.

Such a shame after the amount of training he had put in – Hope you have a speedy recovery mate.

Saturday 17th Also saw Michael Smith competing in Cadair Idris Fell Run Series – A few hills on this run but nothing our very own mountain goat couldn’t cope with – well done Michael

Well what can is say about Sunday 18th

A massive big Brojo turn out with members competing in Worcester 10K / Half Marathon and Full Marathon. In the Marathon we had Steven Lewis / Darren Shaw /@Jasmyn Driver /@Paul Sheldon / Michael Smith / Will Pugh

Running in the Half Marathon we had Matt Pritchard and Brian Roberts (Eggman).

In the 10K we had Su Tench, Katie Bowden,@Stacey McIlmoyle, Joe Robinson , Debbie Pritchard , Lucy Pritchard , Mia Harrington , Claire Richards , Amy-Louise Smith , Corrymarie Watton & Lee Bowden – You guys smashed it

The support our club showed was 2nd to none #ourclubisbetterthanyourclub

Sunday 18th saw our Robin Morris Jones competing in Storm the castle duathlon

10k run to start / 34k cycle to follow with a 5K run to finish, And what a finish it was – 1st place overall – well done Robin

PS – you need to shout up which races you’ve entered so i can add them onto the spreadsheet as we all want to support you before you’ve started instead of finding out when you’ve finished hahaha

This weeks races

Wednesday 21st sees our Michael Smith running Batch Bash (another fell series race) – Good Luck Michael

Wednesday 21st also sees the Phoenix Flyer (sexarthon series) where we will have a great turn out of members.

Nick Harrington

Mia Harrington

David Atack

Jonathan Butler

Andrew Jennings

Will Pugh

Lucy Pritchard

Stacey McIlmoyle

Matt Pritchard

This race is a 5K race and is a great spectators course running 2 laps though Dawley high street

If you can spare a little time on Wednesday evening then our runners will appreciate a shout out

Sunday 25th sees a trio of races

Lee Bowden is running Newtown 10K

Michael Smith is running Mynydd Myfyr fell race

And finally we have our very own BroJo youngsters Lou / Grace & Annabelle running there first ever race – Telford 10K Race For Life. It would be awesome if any of you have any spare time to pop up to Telford and give them a cheer and shout out.

i believe they have a go fund me page as they are doing it for charity – i will try and get the link to there page so we can try and help them meet there fundraising targets – even if its just a couple of pounds – every little helps

Well i hope i have caught all the events and the additions to the race spread sheet

if you need anything altering just holla

#imsurethesepostsaregettinglonger

Thanks for taking time out to read the blurb and look at the spreadsheet

Regards Justin Tench

by Lee Bowden