Quote Originally Posted by helix View Post
No sorry. Just word of mouth that it was the oldest and the fact that on the 40th anniversary we all received a commemorative mug. I can't check the date on it unfortunately as I'm having the kitchen done and everything is packed away.

It a really popular race that attracts runners from all over the place and a lot who don't normally go fell running.
The Pen race 40th anniversary was in 2014.

Carneddau was a British Champs race in 2007. This race has not been held for several years but the pub Y Sior (The George in English) is still going strong. I turned up with a fair number of other runners in 2013 (I think) to find that the race was cancelled because the weather conditions were not good and marshals would be at risk. It seemed OK at the pub so a bunch of us set off to run the course as a training run. All was well until we got about 500 feet short of the summit and we realised that cancelling the race had been a good call - the wind was atrocious and attempting the ridge along to Carnedd Llewellyn would have been very dodgy. We turned back the way we'd come and met a crowd of Pennine Fellrunners who'd tried to do the course clockwise - they'd also decided that discretion was the better part of valour and turned back. Dewi Sinclair (Eryri and North Wales Road Runners) was the organiser at the time.

My first Welsh fell race was the Tavern Trail in 1995, which was a series of simultaneous short, medium and long races on the Clwydians. It had apparently been going for many years but 1995 was the last one - the organiser had a serious illness shortly after and no one else took it on. A couple of years later I did the Moel Famau race which had joint winners (teenagers A and T Davies) - this had also been a British Champs race in earlier years and was a shorter version of the Llangynhafal Loop which commenced in 1999.