{"id":2056,"date":"2014-12-07T16:43:24","date_gmt":"2014-12-07T16:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/?p=2056"},"modified":"2014-12-07T16:43:24","modified_gmt":"2014-12-07T16:43:24","slug":"201415-derby-runner-xc-series-bagworth-heath-woods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/?p=2056","title":{"rendered":"2014\/15 Derby Runner XC Series &#8211; Bagworth Heath Woods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tAndy Skates It!!<br \/>\nOn Sunday morning 26 competitors from the Club lined up on the start line with 500 others for the second race in the 2014\/15 Derby Runner Cross Country Series at Bagworth Heath Woods.<!--more--> Conditions were bright &amp; reasonably still for what is traditionally a very muddy course. The men&#8217;s team, looking to consolidate their position at the top of the second division, were led home by a determined Andy Hawtin in 33<sup>rd<\/sup> place who, on this occasion, got the better of Chris Pearson who finished just two places back in 35<sup>th<\/sup>. Revelling in the heavy conditions the powerful Chappers Jnr. was next in 46<sup>th<\/sup> with James Cassidy, one of many who fell in the tough conditions, next to finish in 58<sup>th<\/sup> place. Gerry O&#8217;Brien ran well for 63<sup>rd<\/sup> place before there was something of a gap to Chappers Snr. in 105<sup>th<\/sup> &amp; Colin Mee in 109<sup>th<\/sup>. Stuart Halsey, making a really welcome return to racing action after injury, completed the scoring finishers for the Club with an excellent 138<sup>th<\/sup> place finish. Providing great support were Simon Reynolds, Adrian Middleton &amp; Andy Orme who finished in 144<sup>th<\/sup>, 148<sup>th<\/sup> &amp; 157<sup>th<\/sup> places respectively. Adrian&#8217;s performance was probably his best race for the Club and is worthy of a special mention. The fast finishing Steve Leafe was next to cross the line in 176<sup>th<\/sup> just getting the better of another returning from injury, Christian Glover, in 184<sup>th<\/sup>. Ray Udall gave his usual 100% effort in finishing in 219<sup>th<\/sup> before the evergreen Steve Fowler managed to hold off the improving Paul Glover and the returning Mark Nixon, in 228<sup>th,<\/sup> 230<sup>th<\/sup> &amp; 232<sup>nd<\/sup> places respectively. The battling Gary Price was next in 242<sup>nd<\/sup> before another really tight inter-club battle between Dave Renshaw &amp; Steve Tempest, with the younger Dave&#8217;s 283<sup>rd<\/sup> place just edging it from Steve&#8217;s 284<sup>th<\/sup>. The redoubtable Richard Ward completed the men&#8217;s finishers for the Club with an excellent 300<sup>th<\/sup> place finish.<br \/>\nWomen&#8217;s Club Champion designate, Christina Cooper, continued her excellent season long form when finishing in a superb 7<sup>th<\/sup> place in the women&#8217;s race. Tracey Glover gave her all to finish in 47<sup>th<\/sup> place with cross country debutant, Jenny Tattersall, adapting well to the 5.7 mile course to finish in 123<sup>rd.<\/sup>. Linda Mason completed the team finishers in 172<sup>nd<\/sup> place with the resolute Linda Tempest completing the club&#8217;s finishers in 178<sup>th<\/sup> place.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Skates It!! On Sunday morning 26 competitors from the Club lined up on the start line with 500 others for the second race in the 2014\/15 Derby Runner Cross Country Series at Bagworth Heath Woods.<\/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-2056","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\/2056","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=2056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}