Josh Griffiths, Omar Ahmed and Natasha Wilson will head to Porthcawl for Wales’ fourth largest race on Sunday.
Josh Griffiths (28:41) will lead the Welsh Challenge to take on Omar Ahmed (28:35) at the Brecon Carreg Porthcawl 10K this weekend. The race will host the third fixture of the 2025 R4W 10K Series and uses a relatively flat route around the picturesque seaside town, taking in the famous Trecco Bay and the newly renovated Harbour area.
Ahmed has a near clean-sheet of wins at R4W races and has won all the races that form the 2025 R4W 10K Series in previous years. He was indeed the winner here 12 months ago, finishing ahead of Dewi Griffiths in second and Josh Griffiths who ran 29:48 on that occasion.
Since then, Griffiths has shown a real return to fitness which includes a win at the Salford 10K but more notably an emphatic victory at the Adidas Manchester Marathon this April.
Phil Wylie (29:30), Mike Ward (29:31), Daniel Hamilton (30:17), 2022 Nos Galan 5k winner Lloyd Sheppard-Brown (30:33) and Jamie Williamson (30:34) are next fastest.
Natasha Wilson (33:09) was the runaway winner of both the Swansea University / Swansea Half Marathon and the Barry Island 10K in mid-June where she commented; “The crowds in Wales are always really good which is why I like coming back to home events’’.
Wilson is the second fastest Welsh marathoner in history with a best of 2:26.14 set at the Trinidad Alfonso Valencia Marathon in 2022 and is also third fastest at Half Marathon with a time of 70:04.
Nia Clatworthy (33:12) will be in action following her 33:12 clocking over 10,000m in April at the Brian Clay Invitational Meeting in California whilst undertaking an Athletics Scholarship at Lamar University, where Sheppard-Brown also attends.
Third fastest is Kate Estlea-Morris (33:38) who was the winner of the reading Half Marathon in 2024 and a runaway winner at the Brecon Carreg CDF 10K last September.
Alaw Evans (34:23) was the 2023 winner at the CDF 10K and is joined by Deborah Bruce (34:56) who was the runner-up at the ABP Newport 10K and by local athlete Kate Roberts (35:03) and North Whalian Eden O’Dea (35:29)
