{"id":1103,"date":"2013-11-18T21:33:32","date_gmt":"2013-11-18T21:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/?p=1103"},"modified":"2013-11-18T21:33:32","modified_gmt":"2013-11-18T21:33:32","slug":"markfield-xc-leeds-abbey-dash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/?p=1103","title":{"rendered":"Markfield XC &#038; Leeds Abbey Dash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<strong>Dom &amp; Jennie steal the show!<\/strong><br \/>\nIn excellent running conditions, no wind &amp; about 10<sup>o<\/sup>C, the Club&#8217;s contingent of 17 were well to the fore at South Charnwood School in the second race in this winter\u2019s Derby Runner XC series.<!--more--> It was two relative newcomers to the Club, Dominic Sharman &amp; Jennie Laing, who starred with Dominic finishing 25<sup>th<\/sup> in the men\u2019s race and Jennie, making her debut for the Club, a superb 6<sup>th<\/sup> in the women\u2019s race.<br \/>\nIn the men\u2019s race there were excellent team performances &amp; top 100 finishes in a really competitive field from Simon Hackett (53<sup>rd<\/sup>), Shane Chapman (64<sup>th<\/sup>), Paul Chapman (90<sup>th<\/sup>), Andy Orme (94<sup>th<\/sup>) &amp; Colin Mee (100<sup>th<\/sup>). Simon Reynolds, making his debut as a 2<sup>nd<\/sup> claim runner for the Club, was next across the line in 149<sup>th<\/sup> place followed by the ever improving Steve Fowler in 230<sup>th<\/sup> &amp; the consistent Adrian Middleton, who completed the team scorers in the men\u2019s race in 234<sup>th<\/sup> place. There then followed three of the Club\u2019s MV60\u2019s Malcolm Moore, Tony Phillips &amp;, making a welcome racing re-appearance, Steve Tempest who finished in 269<sup>th<\/sup>, 277th\u00a0\u00a0&amp; 322nd places respectively.<br \/>\nIn the women\u2019s race Sam Skidmore, making an excellent XC debut, was next to finish after Jennie in 111<sup>th<\/sup> place followed by the battling Inge Moore in 155<sup>th<\/sup>. Linda Tempest, after some recent intensive training, ran well on her comeback for 189<sup>th<\/sup> place with Cath Johnson completing the Club finishers in 192<sup>nd<\/sup>.<br \/>\nThis approximate 5.5 mile course is one of the most popular in the series &amp; to avoid some of the bottlenecks experienced last year there were two separate races with the women starting 10 minutes after the men. However, with over 360 in the men\u2019s race &amp; 200 in the women\u2019s race there was inevitably some minor hold ups &amp; loss of rhythm as the leading women caught the slower men.<br \/>\nMuch further afield Louise Insley was mixing it with the country\u2019s elite &amp; 9500 others in the Age UK Leeds Abbey Dash. Part of the Run Britain Grand Prix Series with significant prize money available to British runners, Louise ran well to finish 5<sup>th<\/sup> in her age group in a chip time of 38.14.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dom &amp; Jennie steal the show! In excellent running conditions, no wind &amp; about 10oC, the Club&#8217;s contingent of 17 were well to the fore at South Charnwood School in the second race in this winter\u2019s Derby Runner XC series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-race-reports","no-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}