Several Cardiff athletes challenged the best in Britain today at the UK Inter Counties championships in Birmingham.
On a fine day with little wind and on a course that was a mixture of dry surfaces and mud, and included a testing uphill stretch, to come in the first hundred was pretty good, to come in the first fifty very good and in the first twenty excellent.
Ciaran Lewis set the standard in the first race of the day, finishing tenth in the under 20 men's race; and Carys Bill matched that in the under 13 girls' race, both producing outstanding runs.