Abertillery Rugby Football Club is a Welsh rugby union club based in Abertillery. According to their website, they were founded in 1883 by a coal miner named Doug Wallace who was a local resident who moved from Scotland in 1882, Wallace was known for his commitment for the club until he died in 1899 and will be remembered as a special part of the club even to do this day. Every year the club celebrates Wallace's life by holding a cross country race with 100s of the locals competing, In the last 10 years Mr Phelps has won the race 10 times and is now the all-time leading winner in the competition, in one year he supposedly ran the race twice before anyone else had crossed the line for the first time.