Snowdonia Marathon weekend - 27/28 October

Five of us travelled over to north Wales on Friday for the 30th Snowdonia Marathon on Saturday.  We reckoned the five of us have been to 60 Snowdonia Marathons!!  Adrian and Hazel have been every year since the mid-90s.  Only Daniel was foolhardy enough to run this year and Ally, Adrian, Hazel and Sue manned the feed station at Bryn Gwynant at the 8.5 mile marker.

The weather for the race was ideal for once - no wind, cool and high cloud.  All the summits, including Snowdon itself, were out of the cloud all day and the autumn colours were beautiful.  Daniel stopped at several points on the course to take photos.

After all the runners had passed Bryn Gwynant the four returned to Llanberis and after parking in the volunteers spot behind the Electric Mountain Visitors Centre spent a couple of hours on the finish funnel, handing slate coasters to finishers, wrapping them in foil blankets and directing them to the Army Cadets hut for hot drinks, biscuits and massages.

Daniel met the others back at the basecamp at 6 o'clock and an hour and a half later we were tucking into a delicious supper of spiced lentil & tomato moussaka (watch out for the recipe in the next newsletter!) and Eve's pudding.  The evening was spent chatting, reading the papers and trying to solve two 1000 piece jigsaws (both very difficult because of acres of blue sky).

The wet weather arrived overnight and after an extra hour in bed and bacon butties for breakfast we packed, did a few more pieces of the jigsaws and went home at lunchtime.