At the British Championship race at Stuc a’ Chroin, James Riley was the sole Todmorden representative to make the long journey to Perthshire for the extremely tough and boggy 14mile route that included over 5000 feet of ascent. In a high quality field, and with occasional sleet showers, James was rewarded with a time of 3:22:21 and 214th place.
Closer to home, on Monday, a Todmorden quartet joined the field for Calder Valley Fell Runners’ Coiners Fell Race. Starting from Mytholmroyd the route is a 7.5 mile tour of Coiners’ country on paths, tracks and moorland, taking in Erringden Moor, Stoodley Pike and Bell House Moor and passes by the old coiners cottages of Bell House and Keelam.
The race was won by former Harrier Chris Smale in 47:51, with Nick Barber putting in an excellent top ten performance to finish in 52:13. Next Harrier home was Derek Donohue in 59:08. Clare Duffield battled hard with Michelle Dew of Rossendale throughout the race to finish in 60:55, just missing out on a top three ladies finish on the line. Mick Craven rounded the Todmorden entries off in 63:12 to take the men’s team into 5th place.
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