Last weekend saw the last of the fell races that make up Buxton AC Juniors Fell Championships.\u00a0 The youngsters had 5 fell races to have a go at with their best 3 performances counting towards the Championships.<\/p>\n
The series has been sponsored by Running Bear – a leading running shop specialized in running shoes, online running clothing and runningaccessories, who supplied the prizes for all age categories – U9 to U17.\u00a0 There was a great turn out for the series with 40 Buxton AC youngsters taking part in one or more of the races.\u00a0 Prizes were awarded for boys and girls in each category.\u00a0 Winning the under 17 series were Sam Soles and Ellie Wilson. The U15 category was won by Will Longden and Lucy Bednall.\u00a0 Grace Longden won the under 13 girls category, with Henry Hazelhurst and Rachel Cudahy winning the under 11.\u00a0 And in the under 9 age category Jimmy Golden and Lexi Tomlinson came out on top! \u00a0 Also receiving prizes were Matt Rolfe, Molly Golden, Sienna Phillips and Rebecca Cudahy, all of whom completed all 5 races in the series.<\/p>\n
Last Thursday was the next race in the Staffordshire Moorlands Summer Series at Rudyard Lake with yet another excellent set of results from Buxton.\u00a0 Coming in 3rd overall and first in his age category (JM14) was Harry Bond followed closely by Jake O’Donnell who is currently 1st JM11 with a clean sheet of wins.\u00a0 In 5th overall was Lucy Bednall who is also topping the girls league with another 1st girl performance.\u00a0 Sienna Philips came in next in 9th overall – winning her age category of JF11 and Amy Whellan finishing 1st JF13.\u00a0 Abbie Fryer-Winder came in 29th overall putting her in 2nd JF14.<\/p>\n
Also this weekend saw the inaugural running of a new local fell race at Cock Hill where Buxton Junior Sam Soles had a great run to finish 2nd overall.\u00a0 Also on Saturday Harry Bond put in an outstanding run at Congleton Parkrun where he finished 7th overall – 1st junior in a new Personal best time of 18.55.<\/p>\n
Photo: Some of the younger Buxton juniors with Tony Hulme – owner of Running Bear and Dan Latham who organised the Fell Series<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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