Quote Originally Posted by molehill View Post
Probably a few similar that were linked to local shows and never drrew the attention of fell runners. First fell race I did was at Llangurig show, that would have been around late 80s and just local ladds in it. Then there was the Rhayader carnival race from the clock tower to the top of Gwastedyn hill and back, that always attracted around 100 entries of mainly locals and kids. A few runners came on the scene later, like myself in early 90s. I was even in the prizes there with a top 3 and V40s - but a certain kid called Tim Davies came on the scene and spoilt everything for us mere mortals by knocking us oldies off the leader board!
I expect there were more races like this through rural Wales in those days, but I doubt many survive now.
A bit of googling around the Llangurig show hasn't revealed anything about a hill race, so I imagine that stopped many years ago. The latest reference to the Rhayader carnival race (also mentioned earlier in this thread) that I have found is to a race in 2016 (on an archived version of the Rhayader AC website), and the race doesn't appear anywhere on the website for this year's carnival.

On the subject of Llangurig: on my recent few days of cycling in Wales, I noticed that as far away as Dolgellau, signs on the A470 southward referred to Llangurig as the destination. The implication is that there is no more significant town on the A470 between Dolgellau and Llangurig: you or Llani Boy may wish to comment on this.