Wales's oldest fell races

[Llani Boy]

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to the Rhayader carnival race (also mentioned earlier in this thread) that I have found is to a race in 2016 (on an archived version of the Rhayader AC website), and the race doesn't appear anywhere on the website for this year's carnival.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.

I do wish to comment AK on what was a bit of a bugbear and thank you for the opportunity!

Llanidloes is 8 times bigger than Llangurig and is a proper town rather than a small village but does not find itself on major road signs whilst Llangurig which is 6 miles away , as you have pointed out, is advertised from many miles away.

The reason for this is that Llangurig is at the junction of two trunk roads, the A470 and the A44, whilst Llanidloes is not. Llanidloes no doubt loses out on passing trade, especially since the bypass was built but probably is better off overall as many ne'r do wells will just go flying past!