Sunday saw the second year of the Litton Elf Junior Fell race held in conjunction with the iconic Litton Christmas Cracker.

With clear but wintery conditions this tough race takes in an impressive climb of 938 feet of climb over 4 miles of idyllic limestone scenery through Tansley Dale  and up onto Wardlow Hay Cop where they had to run around a festively decorated trig point complete with Christmas tree!

Heather Wilshaw retained her title as “Elf Queen” coming first lady, first U17 girl, with a time that was only 31 secs off her own record time!  Second girl and first u15 girl was Amy Whelan, the girls pushing each other throughout the race.  Winning the race overall was U17 winner Sam Soles who had a great run to beat last year’s winner Alex Ediker, who came in 2nd male, first U19.  Team mates Jacob Buckley and Elliot Meylan came in 2nd and 3rd U19 respectively.  The winners received their prizes from Chris Theyer of the Thomas Theyer Foundation who sponsor the Litton Elf.

Also this weekend, Buxton juniors Ed Hazelhurst, Jonty Brown, and Matt Rolfe had great runs at the Pavilion Gardens 5k on Saturday coming 1st, 2nd and 4th juniors, while Sam Soles took a comfortable win at Lyme Park over 30 seconds ahead of second.  Then on Sunday Jonty went one better to come in first overall with team mate Dylan Gray putting in a PB performance to come in 3rd boy with Callum Wymer coming in 14th JM10.  Flo Brown had a great run to finish 3rd girl overall, having has a great run at the 5K on Saturday completing 2 laps of the park dressed a Christmas Elf!

Photo: Amy Whelan first U15 girl and Heather Wilshaw first U17 girl and “Elf Queen”