When: Wednesday 20 July 2016
Where: Widdop (near Heptonstall)
Distance: Under 8’s 0.65km, Under 10’s 1.5km and Under 12’s 2.0km
Who: Our awesome Junior Pumas
This was the first official race that our Junior Pumas have taken part in. Organised by the Calder Valley Fell Running Club it was a bit of a baptism of fire for our Junior Pumas!
We had Juniors running in 3 of the different age categories:
Under 8’s
- Finley Canning
- Orlagh Kenny
- Sophie Booth
- Caitlin Booth
- Maia Tudor
- Reuben Bartkiw
- Henry Rathbone
- Tailla Green-Moore
Under 10’s
- Tegan Green-Moore
- Jude Kenny
- Amelie Baker
- Jeremy Bartkiw
Under 12’s
- Olivia Fall
The race was all run on the fells surrounding Heptonstall. This type of running was a massive change for our juniors, who have done some ‘off road’ running but nothing compared to the terrain on a proper quarry run (the term used for a junior fell run). As Maia Tudor said ‘I had to climb up a big rock and it was a bit dangerous because if I’d have fell I would have landed in the river’.
Even though all of our juniors have run longer distances the tough terrain and steep hills made it a challenging course.
But this didn’t stop them. Each and every one of our Junior Pumas raced to the best of their ability and performed absolutely amazingly.
We even had a medal winner, Tailla Green-Moore who came 3rd in the U8 girls! An amazing achievement.
The team spirit they showed was also great to watch, as they stood and cheered the rest of their team mates across the finish line.
As a coaching team we couldn’t be more proud of how well our Junior Pumas did, we were definitely #proudtobeapuma on Wednesday night.
The times and places of our junior runners are available here.
