Anna Lupton reaching for the sky and won world title

Date published: 23 July 2010

Radcliffe AC's Anna Lupton has been reaching for the sky and won herself a world title!
Lupton was part of a British relay team in the Italian Alps who took on one of the most gruelling events in the calendar of skyrunning , running at altitude. The women's team of three, the Salomon Trail Team, was competing in theOrobie SkyRaid Race along the 84km of the Sentiero delle Orobie, a route which normally takes a trekker several days to complete.

It incorporated the first ever SkyRaid World Championships and involved a marathon of 42km, another 30km race and a 12km event, which included scrambling and climbing. Lupton ran the marathon and the team finished all three events in just over 10 hours taking the world title.

Globetrotting Lupton planned to set off earlier this week in her camper van for two weeks training in the Swiss Alps before returning home to take part in the trials in Llanberis, Wales, for the Second World Mountain Championships in Kamnik, Slovenia in September. The day after the trials she will be off to Colorado where she has been selected to run for England in the World Long Distance Mountain Race, the Pikes Peak Race, later next month.

Two Radcliffe members competed in the local Waugh's Well Fell Race, battling against bad conditions to cover its 4miles and 1,000 feet of climbing. Mark Cartwright ran a fine 43m 25secs with Kevin McGilvray clocking 46m 9secs.

And at weekend Cartwright took on the Coniston Country Fair Fell Race, a straight up and down six miles with 2,400 feet of climbing He battled rain and mist to clock 103m 2 secs.