SNOWDON TWILIGHT

IDEAL RACING TRAINING A FULL MONTH BEFORE THE MAIN RACE

Friday June 26th 7pm – 7.30pm (depending on Weather)

START OF RACE – The race route will be UPHILL only and will start from the Padarn Park (same location as the main Snowdon Race) and follow the Llanberis path to the summit of Snowdon.
The race will start BETWEEN 7- 7.30pm and hopefully all will be at the summit within 1hr 15mins. There will be A STRICT cut off point will be at Clogwyn Station of 1hr 05mins. (all depending on weather)

IMPORTANT NOTICE TO ALL RUNNERS
• ALL RUNNER MUST CARRY FULL BODY KIT, in bum bag etc
• ALL RUNNERS MUST HAVE OR WEAR A HEAD TORCH
• WE WILL DO A CHECK AT THE START
• NO Compliance NON Runner

Marshals and MRT Personnel, will be mainly on the summit, finger stone but Marshals will be in specific points, hebron, halfway house, allt moses, clogwyn etc
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ON SUMMIT – As soon as you have reached the summit you can enter the summit café, show your number then you will have a hot drink (tea or coffee) and a flapjack or make your way back down the mountain to Llanberis. 

Then 9pm ish (depending of weather ‘sweepers’ will be sweeping the summit and making sure that all are down off the mountain making there way back to Llanberis. Marshals and Mountain Rescue personel will be on the mountain.
Make sur eyou do carry on the Llanberis path, DO NOT Bank right towards Crib Goch path, or miners path. LLANBERIS PATH, same path you came up.


For the FIRST TIME IN ITS HISTORY The Summit Café will be open till 10pm, courtesy of Snowdon Mountain Railway.

Registration 3.00 – 6.30pm


Registration for “Snowdon Twilight” will be online only, entries going LIVE APRIL 24TH at 12noon. Not 12midnight, it will be 12noon, for a change. 
Nothing will be posted out in the post, you will be able to pick your number up at the the race headquarters / registration from 3 – 6.30pm on Friday June 26th. 
Registration Location Royal Victoria Hotel
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Entry includes chip timing, courtesy of TDL Events Services free personilsed race t-shirt which include your race number, Twilight tea/coffee mug, hot drink and flapjack in café at the summit cortesy of Snowdon Mountain Railway.

A FULL MONTH BEFORE THE MAIN RACE IDEAL RACING TRAINING


Presentation 10.00pm



Presentation will either be on the summit or we will host them in the Royal victoria Hotel in the Dinorwig Room at 10pm. Everybody then will be ready for last orders and a few drinks and discussing the race.

Trophy for the winners plus prizes given by our sponsorship Salomon. We will also have spot prizes’ so keep hold of your number. 
It will be the first time ever for the Railway Cafe to be open after 7pm……… worth a try!!!


We as the voluntary organization committee of the international Snwodon Race are glad to announce the another new concept race for the Snowdon Race BRAND.
Llanberis, Wales. Nothing in iyts kind in Wales / UK.

With the popularity of the Tyn Lon Volvo International Snowdon Race / Ras-yr-Wyddfa growing year on year, the fantastic programme of racing has been bolstered with the announcement of an exciting new uphill only race to the summit of this famous mountain, some 1085m above sea level.


The “Snowdon TWILIGHT” will be held for the 26th June 2015 at 7pm, a full month before the main event of the International Snowdon Race.
It will give the runners (who have entered the main race) the opportunity to run UPHILL only in a competitive way, ideal training.
It will be limited to just x 200/250 athletes who will have the experience of racing from the village of Llanberis to the summit of Snowdon and hopefully witness amazing scenery at the highest point in England and Wales.


The main “International Snowdon Race”, now it’s 40th year, is considered as one of the greatest in the world of mountain running, and attracts some of the best racers in Europe. So we as committee decided to test a new concept on the 40th anniversary in 2015, in which will bring extra income to us as a voluntary community company full of volunteers, and especially raise the “economic impact” to Llanberis and the area.

Runners will arrive from all parts of UK and Europe and will stay on the Friday (race night) and over the weekend maybe reccie the World Mountain Championship course in Betws y Coed (Sept)

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LINK FOR ENTRIES

https://secure.onreg.com/onreg2/front/step1.php?id=2785

Looking forward to see you and spread the word
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Thanks,
Stephen Edwards
Race Organiser

Entries go live on March 1st. Traditional St David’s Day opening will see scramble for precious places at Wales’ premier mountain race. Llanberis, Wales – The first batch of the 650 places for the Tyn Lon Volvo International Snowdon Race / Ras-yr-Wyddfa go on sale in less than 4 weeks on Sunday March 1st at 00.01, as 250 runners who have previously run the race in the last 5 years will be able to apply for the event which takes place on the 18th July.

A further 400 runners will then be invited to apply from the 15th of March. Entries will once again be via a link on the race website www.snowdonrace.co.uk

Race organiser Stephen Edwards, is organising the event for the seventh year which sees a week-long festival in Llanberis to celebrate the 40th anniversary of this classic mountain race, and stated:

“We are all set for the deluge of enquiries that will happen when the entries open. It will be the same procedure for entry that has taken place in the previous years, which we feel works well. Those 250 runners who will bag a place will have to have completed the event in the previous 5 years. The remaining 400 places go to the ‘open market’ a couple of weeks later, however those runners must also have experience of mountain running to be able to enter.”

Now in it’s 40th year the race is considered as one of the greatest in the world of mountain running, and attracts some of the best racers in Europe. With names such as Kenny Stuart, Fausto Bonzi, Carole Greenwood, Andi Jones, Ian Holmes and Angela Mudge on the role call of winners, this famous mountain really has been graced by some of the world’s great mountain runners. However, the event has grown over the last four decades to be one on the bucket-list of mere mortals, as just completing the 10-mile race from Llanberis to the summit of Snowdon and back is something thousands aspire to, but only hundreds achieve, year-on-year.

Edwards continues:

“As far as the race is concerned the anticipation and buzz surrounding the event gets better every year, and this year will be something very special. We are planning some great community-based activities including a new 5km race in Llanberis, music concert, junior events throughout the week, firework displays and we are hoping to welcome back a number of past winners of the race. 

“All of our major sponsors and partners are on board and we have terrestrial television highlights confirmed once again for 2015. More importantly we really couldn’t put the race on without the continued support of the likes of Snowdon Mountain Railway, First Hydro and all of the Llanberis committee and community and I suppose that’s what makes this race so magical – it’s an international event, with a local feel, and long may that continue!”

For further race information visit www.snowdonrace.co.uk