Fell Running - Doyle polishes off Ambleside rivals for double glory (From The Westmorland Gazette)

Fell Running - Doyle polishes off Ambleside rivals for double glory

10:20am Saturday 27th June 2009 in

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ULVERSTON’S Tom Doyle put in a special performance when Broughton Runners staged the fourth-round races in the English Junior Championships at Ambleside on Saturday.

The run could well have secured the former Ulverston Victoria Hugh School pupil an England vest to compete in the Home Counties Championship later this year.

Five races for six-year-olds through to 18-year-olds were held on steep and challenging terrain on Wansfell from the Kelsick Annex above Ambleside.

Doyle of Helm Hill Runners ran right away from the Under-16 field and and destroyed the Under-18s’ challenge in the process!

After emerging clear winner of the combined race, he competed in the Gummers How Race later in the day and took a prize there, too.

There was another Helm Hill winner In the Under-14s race as James Knox took the honours.

Other local runners to do well were Peter Clough, of Ambleside, who was second Under-8 and Mel Hyder, of Helm Hill, finished second Under-16.

Host club Broughton Runners enjoyed success with Leah Albion and Eilidh Miller second and third in the Under-10s and Katie Wright fifth in Under-14s.

Several of the team completed their first ever fell race, and Juliette Servante and Junior International Orienteer Megan Beard deserve praise for finishing an Under-16 course which climbed Wansfell twice.