CF64 Winter race information

Original Date: Sunday January 23rd, 2022, 10:00am

Rescheduled date: T.B.C.

Cosmeston Lakes Country Park, CF64 5UY

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Registration website: https://my.raceresult.com/184606/registration

General entry: £10.00

Welsh/UK Athletics Registered Runners: £8.00

Entry limit: 350; min. age 17

Prizes for first 3 male and female finishers plus age group winners

• The CF64 Winter Race is a 6.4 mile/10.2 km (approx.) mixed-terrain race set off-road entirely within Cosmeston Lakes Country Park in Penarth.  The race is organised by Penarth and Dinas Runners (email: pdrunners@gmail.com) and licensed by Welsh Athletics (licence applied for).

• Cosmeston Lakes Country Park is one of the finest country parks in South Wales and is a designated local nature reserve.  It offers some scenic running, with views of the lakes, open countryside, marshy areas and shaded wooded sections.

• In establishing ‘CF64’ in 2018, our aim was to put on a low cost, ‘no frills’, mid-winter off-road race for the local running community.  The course will challenge experienced runners, particularly those looking to sharpen their mid-season cross-country speed, but is also suited to newer runners looking to try out an off-road mixed-terrain race.  There’s trails, mud, woodlands, more mud, possibly water, hills, fast tarmac sections and some great scenery to enjoy on the twisting course around the park.  Plus the usual excellent level of support from Penarth and Dinas Runners and friends. 

• The race sold out in 2019 and 2020 - so don't delay registering if you want a place in 2022.

• The undulating course is entirely off-road within the park, on a variety of surfaces, through woodland and meadows, scrubland, and a few marshy areas.  The course distance is approximately 6.4 miles (10.2 km).

• The course is marshalled at all key points, with additional signage to guide runners through unattended sections.  The course route, directions and main marshal locations are indicated on the course map.  Mile markers will be positioned around the course.

• A first-aid station is located centrally at the race HQ with mobile first-aid responders positioned at two points on the course.