Last Sunday 2nd September saw thousands of runners taking part in the Cardiff 10km and Fun Run races, held in dry warm weather. Cardiff AAC had 33 runners, with 18 males, and 15 females, covering U18 to Masters age groups.
Our senior men took pride of place in the 10km race, with Matt Clowes 2nd, (pictured) Jake Smith 3rd, Dan Nash 9th and James Hunt 12th. Dewi Griffiths (winner) led from gun, flying through 5km in 14.14 (28.28 10km pace), with a chasing pack of 4 runners including Matt Clowes and Jake Smith in 14.33, 19secs behind Dewi.
Over the last 5km Matt reduced a tiring Dewi lead, to 8secs at finish, by running a well judged race. Matt will be representing England team, in the Cardiff Half Marathon that includes a Commonwealth competition. His selected follows a series of top class road performances, and included in our BAL team (5km 2nd 14.14.96) held in Cardiff last June. Matt, is self coached covers a lot of mileage on his own, as many endurance runners do, and have done for years.
Cardiff's senior ladies also had excellent results, with Clara Evans (3rd female), Lucy Marland 7th, and Cary Hughes 8th. These 3 runners have achieved consistant good results on the road, and in cross country racing.