2008 Sialens y Barcud Coch & Ras Y Diafol Race Results

Race Results 2008 (via online race results)
Downloadable Excel results 2005-2008 on one worksheet

Race photos - coming soon

20-21t June2009 Red Kite Challenge (Provisional Dates)

Another year has passed without a hitch and two great races. On Saturday Matthew Collins (Cardiff AC) defended his title for another year whilst Anna Frost (Wrexham) broke the course record whilst finishing fifth overall. On Sunday two more long distance travelers Mark Shepherd and Rachel Elliott both from Team Kennet in Oxfordshire took the honours with the same two runners doing well enough to take the combined weekend prizes. Well done to all of our competitors, some who have supported the weekend year after year and others who have made the trip from a far to once again make the race weekend a success. Please let us know what you thought of the race, more importantly what we can do better next year either by e-mail or using the runners world forum.

Thanks again to the landowners who allow us to run over their land and our many sponsors who also help make this event possible. Thanks also to Raynet, St John's Ambulance and all our marshals who endure bad weather and midges to ensure that the runners know where they are going. Thanks to Roland and Pat Sherwood who kindly provide our race results, please feel free to e-mail them with corrections.

The biggest thanks should go to Dic Evans for the red kite vision and the countless number of hours he has given to making the weekend happen over the last 5 years. Thanks also to the committee who have got behind the race and made things work.

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2007 Sialens y Barcud Coch & Ras Y Diafol

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Sialens y Barcud Coch / Red Kite Challenge (21st of June 2008) was first run as a trail race in the hills of Ceredigion, Mid Wales, in mid-summer 2003. It was conceived and designed by its organiser, Welsh International athlete, Dic Evans, who uses these trails very often in his own training and coaching of local athletes.

This years races will take place on the Saturday the 21st of June, incorporating the UK Short Course, Welsh Senior and Welsh Masters Trail Running Championships over a tough and challenging 11 plus miles. Starting from Nant yr Arian Forest Visitor Centre, some ten miles inland from the coastal town of Aberystwyth, the eleven plus mile course is demanding but very picturesque, with views out over Cardigan Bay, the Lleyn Peninsula, Pumlumon and other mountain ranges. It follows paths and tracks through forests, across moorlands and past lakes, with less than a mile of tarmac surface.

A walk is also organised from the same venue over an eight mile course, so that friends and families of the runners, and other walking enthusiasts can also take part in the event. The walk begins two hours before the race. Other interests at the venue include Red Kite feeding, a children’s play area, a café, and mountain bike trails.

Ras y Diafol/The Devil's Race - Invidual or 3 man relay (22nd of June 2008) and walk was included for the first time in 2005, it takes its name from Devil's Bridge another beauty spot a few miles away. The Ras y Diafol or the Devils Race - is to be run over similar terrain, although the landscape is in many ways quite different. The course is approximately 18 miles in length and is much longer, so some participants might like to take it easy and run it as their long Sunday training run after the exertions of the day. For those who prefer something shorter, it can also be run as a relay by teams of three over 5, 6 or 7 mile legs. Once again the walk will be over a shorter route approximately 12 miles. The walkers will be bused to their starting point and hour before the runners start. Devil's Bridge is a beauty spot famous for its waterfalls, three bridges and narrow gauge railway. It is certainly well worth a visit!

Participants can do either or both events. Additional to the awards given for each race, there will be prizes given on a cumulative basis. Dic is confident that the majority of participants will find both of these courses challenging, invigorating and highly inspirational.

Dic and the organising team Red Kite-Barcud Coch wish to thank all the sponsors and helpers for their support without which it would not be possible to hold the event.

For information regarding the races please telephone Dic on (01974) 261202/ 07773435073 mb