Six Buxton AC athletes travelled the 420 mile roundtrip up to Broughton, Scotland for the British Fell Relays last weekend. The annual race is always a great event with many spectators turning out to watch. The race is split into four legs. The first leg of the race was a 7.5km run with 450m of elevation.

Following that, leg 2 was a longer route (11.45km, 780m elevation) and was ran in pairs. Leg 3 was a navigation leg. This leg was similar to leg 2. The distance was around the same and the leg was run in pairs again. However, for leg 3 there was no flagged course – the runners had to navigate with a map given at the start of their leg instead. Leg 4, like leg 1, is around 7.5km in distance and rounds up the relay. Buxton’s Will Longden set off to a great start. He ran the 7.5km course in 38.24mins and finished an impressive 7th overall.

Will handed the race over to duo Stu Diamond and Ben Light who ran the challenging course in a time of 1hr 18mins and placing Buxton in 19th place.

Next out of the start was the navigation Buxton runners Dan Latham and Nick Jones. They completed their leg in a time of 1hr 33mins finishing in 49th.

The final leg of the day was run by Buxton’s Andy Lidstone who completed the course in a time of 56mins.

Overall, Buxton finished 65th out of 175 teams altogether. All in all, the event was a great day out with lots of exciting racing and excellent refreshments!