YOUNG runners from Braintree and District Athletic Club took on the uphill task of fell races during their summer breaks and certainly rose to the challenge.
Taylor Gooding tackled the Dufton Pike in the northern Pennines in Cumbria.
The course started on the Pennine Way and climbed up to the fell gate of Dufton Pike where it turned back down with a fast grassy descent and Gooding returned with first place in the under-ten girls' Fell race.
She also ran in the Ennerdale Show in Cumbria and took second in the under-12 girls' Fell race.
It was along a course that gradually climbed up from the show field through marshland and then skirted the lower slopes of Knock Murton.
A testing rocky climb up then came before turning back, with Gooding swapping places several times with the eventual winner on the way back down and just being out-sprinted to the line.
Meanwhile, Braintree's Rose Sheppard took part in the Malham and Reeth Fell races in the Yorkshire Dales.
She came first in the under-12 girls' event at Malham and fifth at Reeth.
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