The penultimate race in the English Junior Fell Championships was held at Clougha Pike, with Buxton currently sitting in 4th position overall in a Championships that attracts youngsters and Clubs from all over the country – the Club still has it all to play for!

14 Buxton AC youngsters travelled to Quernmore, Lancashire to take part in the Fell Race which is held as part of the Quernmore Sports Day and Village Country Show.  The routes were mainly run on rough farmland with tricky stream gullies, rough woodland sections and a steep downhill finish – made all the more challenging by the windy, rainy conditions!  First up for the hardy bunch from Buxton were the under 9 team of Jimmy Golden, Hannah Cudahy and Lexi Thompson.  Hannah was 14th, Lexi 17th girls and Jimmy 26th boy.  It was an all girl team in the under 11’s with Lucy Whelan putting in a great finish sprint to come in 15th with Rachel Cudahy 17th and Molly Golden in 25th.

Grace Longden had a fantastic race in the under 13’s to finish 4th girl, with team mate Rebecca Cudahy coming in 25th.  Will Longden had the stand out performance of the day coming in 2nd overall consolidating his position in the Championships in Silver Medal position.  Also running well in the under 15’s were Lucy Bednall in 5th,  Lauren Wilshaw 9th and Amy Whelan 11th.  Representing the club in the under 17 race were Stuart Diamond and Heather Wilshaw who came in 10th boy and 15th girl overall.

Team Manager Rachel Dowle had this to say, “Wow! How amazing are our youngsters! It was such an awful wet windy day and another super tough course but they took it all in their stride! I’d like to thank all our amazing parents who rally round to get our juniors to these events – without your support our youngsters would not have the opportunity to havethese awesome experiences and be able to take part in events of this calibre – challenging themselves against the best in the country!  Buxton you make us proud!”