 Cat Macdonald tackles Snowdon Two members of Morpeth Harriers had the distinction of collecting international honours when running in the 48th Castle Howell International Snowdon Mountain Race (Ras Yr Wyddfa) at the weekend. For Catriona Macdonald, it was a return to a mountain she has raced up and down previously in Scotland colours, but for Lawrence McCourt it was his first time in an England vest, but on the day both had outstanding runs. Quite rightly describing itself as ‘One of Europe’s toughest endurance challenges’, the 10 mile mountain race starts and finishes at Llanberis and includes a full 7.16 kilometre ascent and descent of the highest summit in England and Wales. With North Wales escaping the downpours that affected much of the rest of the country on Saturday, it was oppressive heat that was more of a factor for those taking part, with several of the 406 finishers collapsing from heat exhaustion at the finish. Won by Italian Luca Magri in a time of 1 hour 6 minutes and 10 seconds, with Italy also collecting the team prize, Lawrence had an outstanding run to finish in 5th place in a time of 1:09:50 and was second counter for an England team who picked up a Silver medal. The women’s race was won by Nancy Scott of England in 1:20:30 with Cat finishing in 1:27:28 as 9th female and second team counter for Scotland. Once again, Italy picked up the team prize with England second and Scotland third.  Lawrence McCourt crosses the finishing line Comments are closed.
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