Just found this on the Welsh Athletics site. I was wrong about the shoulder, but at least we’ve heard from her that she’s ok and getting better.
“Unfortunately, Bronwen Jenkinson, after reaching the summit in a time of 53:55 when well placed and in with a chance of making the top three with her proven downhill running skills fell between the summit and the finger post (A flattish but very rocky area) and damaged her knee to such an extent that she could not continue.”
Sounds more likely to keep her off the hills for a while than a shoulder problem. If you see any of the Eryri Harriers, please pass on best wishes from one who, even when in my 20s, would have taken all day to get up and down, never mind 1hr 25min!!! Mmm… I’m not sure I ever got right to the top of any mountain, thinking back! About 2/3 up!!
Bendihyfrydogedig! 
Beth ydy’r gair hwnna?
It’s a “tmesis” or “infixation”, Morgan - Aran has inserted ‘hyfryd o’ into the middle of ‘bendigedig’!
You may often often hear a tmesis/infixtion using an expletive (e.g. “abso-f***ing-lutely”, “un-f***ing-believable”), but this is a much more polite version!
They won’t be found in any dictionary though!
I hadn’t managed to freeze the first shot as well as that, but had seen it and the others at the finish. I hadn’t noticed you at the start - my attention zoomed in to the row of eager competitors! Diolch! And I agree with @aran
I suppose you couldn’t have a word with friends covering Yr Eisteddfod Genedlaethol and ask them to feature a large group of badge-wearing/beard-sporting/Medusa-headed folk on the Wednesday???!!! 
We don’t cover the Eisteddfod as such, although we will, I think, be covering the Pabell Llen again this year. The thing to do would be to look out for any and all camera crews and make yourselves obvious (without resorting to the silly waving from behind the presenter when they’re doing a piece to camera - they hate that!) - there will be so many crews from so many production companies that you’d be bound to end up on something somewhere! 
Big red badges, beards false and real, Medusa hats … nah, we’ll blend into the backgroud 
That explains it then. Diolch, Siaron.
good news - on Saturday (30th July) Bronwen not only ran in the 2016 Senior British Athletics Mountain Running Trial (a distance of 3.7km with a climb of 9510m), but she came second in the junior women category with a time of 27.01. I told you Eryri Harriers were tough!
That’s quite an achievement. Running 3.7km with a climb of over 9km!
unless my specs aren’t strong enough to spot a decimal point, that’s what it said - although it does sound a bit steep! 
Back to the ‘Getting around in Cymru’ subject heading (I have no intention of doing any climbing!): I have (slowly) started planning a trip back to the UK next (ummm - still thinking) perhaps end July to end September, spending a month in North Wales & travelling out from a base rather than keeping on changing accommodation. I am thinking about staying at LletyArall in Caernarfon for a while rather than renting a cottage/flat on my own where I would probably keep to myself and not trio siarad tipyn bach o Gymraeg. Various relatives have told me not to hire a car for all my stay because traffic is awful and only hire a car when I need it (though in the next breath those same relatives say public transport is unreliable…). So present thoughts are to use buses and trains & only hire a car say for a day to get to places like where my grandparents lived on Ynys Môn & in the north near Caergwrle. Is there anywhere in Caernarfon that rents out cars? The nearest car hire place I can find in my (inexpert) searching of the Internet is Bangor. Also, thank you for the 7-years ago public transport links, which still function and that I shall peruse. (I’m not sure if this will ‘post’, a message came up saying a draft was being something or other in a separate window and to ignore or reload. Ignoring only got the same message so I clicked reload. And apologies if this ends up duplicated.)
Hi Susan,
Llety Arall would be an ideal place to stay - I’ve heard very good things!
As it happens, the only car hire place I know of in/near Caernarfon is in my village (Caeathro) which is just outside town (2 miles) - Europcar Caernarfon at Gwalia Garage.
There is a regular bus service between Caernarfon and Caeathro if you didn’t want to walk, and to be honest, the bus services in general in this area don’t seem too bad although I have to say I don’t use them all that often.
The traffic isn’t really too bad either - though obviously it’s worse at the height of the season. The biggest problem with driving is actually parking - the car parks do fill up pretty quick in summer.
As for trains, the main line from Bangor would get you to Holyhead on Ynys Môn (with stops at Llanfairpwll, Bodorgan, Ty Croes, Rhosneigr and Valley). The station in Caernarfon is not main line, it’s the Welsh Highland Railway. This could get you to Porthmadog (from where you can get the main line to Pwllheli which also stops at Criccieth, Penychain and Abererch), or to stops around Eryri (Beddgelert, Rhyd Ddu, Waunfawr), but as it’s more of a tourist thing, the timetable is a bit limiting compared to public service trains.
here’s a map of the main line trains https://tfw.wales/sites/default/files/2023-03/TfW_2DL_Network_Map_ENGLISH_WEB.pdf
and here’s the website for the WHR https://www.festrail.co.uk/
The choice between car and public transport does, unfortunately, always boil down to convenience. Simply due to the geography and topography of the area, bus journeys can take quite a chunk of time to get from A to B via X,Y & Z, and the train and bus timetables don’t always join up, meaning you could be stuck waiting for connections for some time, whereas a car does give you much more flexibility as to where and when you go.
Diolch yn fawr, @siaronjames. I have various old UK Ordnance Survey maps including a 1962 edition of Anglesey region that includes around Caernarfon. I’ve found Caeathro (which has had a partial gender change over the past 60 years from ‘Caeathraw’), but neither the Europcar nor Gwalia garage websites show car rental available there right now so it seems I shall have to go to Bangor to hire a car. I shall spend time looking at bus and train timetables and hope that will help me make up mind about where, when and for how long to hire a car. Decisions!
I had to fill up with petrol today, so I asked at Gwalia, and no, they don’t do hire anymore, so yes, the nearest is Bangor.
The road (and rail) network around here has changed considerably since 1962 (most recently with a bypass finished only a couple of years ago!), so much as I adore old maps, I wouldn’t rely too heavily on that one 
