Season 2026-27

Race 1 – Llandegla, 4th October 2026

Hosts Wrecsam Tri had advised car-sharing for travel to this new venue. This advice proved well-founded as the later arrivals found themselves queueing for the various car parks even as the race start time neared.
In the end, only a few minutes delay to the start was needed, and more than 340 athletes battled with the challenge of a trail course that featured some long climbs and a net ascent of 70 metres.
17 year-old Lewis Morris (West Cheshire AC) made light of the gradients, pulling away from the rest of the field to win his second Mens’ League race, 25 seconds ahead of Oliver Chadwick (Wallasey AC). Just behind the latter was Ben Taylor (Pensby Runners).
Unbeaten in her last 10 League races, Emily Haggard-Kearney (Deeside AC) duly made it 11 wins in the Ladies’ race, her two nearest pursuers Gemma Moore and Anna Drinkwater (both Eryri Harriers) 40 and 55 seconds further back respectively.
In the team competitions, League Champions Helsby RC began the defence of their title with a narrow defeat on the day to Wrexham AC, despite their first four athletes finishing ahead of the first man home for the latter. No such problems however for their Ladies, who recorded a comfortable win in defence of their own title, 83 points ahead of Chester Tri.
With only one promotion place now available in the lower divisions, Deeside AC‘s Men and Eryri Harriers Ladies made strong initial bids for the respective Division 1 slots, opening significant margins over the clubs who finished second on the day, Wirral AC and UTS RC.
Alas, the new five-team Third Divisions already appear to be reduced to three-horse races, with the same two clubs in each failing to show up. The Men of Deestriders RC and the Ladies of Wrexham AC took the wins on the day here.

Results have now been finalised.
Individual Results
Team Results

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Division 1 – Men (teams of 10 counters)

Helsby (2025-26 champions)
Buckley
Chester Tri
Wallasey
Wrexham
West Cheshire (promoted 2025-26)
Prestatyn (promoted 2025-26)
Bottom two teams to be relegated at the end of the season

Division 1 – Ladies (teams of 6 counters)

Helsby (2025-26 champions)
West Cheshire
Chester Tri
Wallasey
Deeside
Wirral (promoted 2025-26)
Prestatyn (promoted 2025-26)
Bottom two teams to be relegated at the end of the season

Division 2 – Men (teams of 7 counters)

Wirral
Ellesmere Port
Deeside
Eryri
UTS
Birkenhead
Division champions only to be promoted at the end of the season
Bottom two teams to be relegated

Division 2 – Ladies (teams of 4 counters)

Buckley
Eryri
UTS
Ellesmere Port
Pensby
Deestriders
Division champions only to be promoted at the end of the season
Bottom two teams to be relegated

Division 3 – Men (teams of 5 counters)

Pensby
Wrecsam Tri
Deestriders
Cybi Striders
Tattenhall
Division champions only to be promoted at the end of the season

Division 3 – Ladies (teams of 3 counters)

Wrexham
Wrecsam Tri
Birkenhead
Tattenhall
Cybi Striders
Division champions only to be promoted at the end of the season

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You can find results of previous years’ races in our Results Archive.

Updated 05/10/2026