{"id":2389,"date":"2015-04-20T18:20:43","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T18:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/?p=2389"},"modified":"2015-04-20T18:20:43","modified_gmt":"2015-04-20T18:20:43","slug":"conkers-5-greater-manchester-marathon-the-derby-10k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/?p=2389","title":{"rendered":"Conkers 5, Greater Manchester Marathon &#038; the Derby 10k"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<strong>First past the post!!!<\/strong><br \/>\nOn a really busy day for the Club the main focus of attention was on the Club\u2019s own race and the first race in this year\u2019s Burton &amp; District Summer League, the Conkers 5. <!--more-->Despite the priority being on marshalling there was still a clear statement of intent from the Club that they won\u2019t easily relinquish their men\u2019s &amp; women\u2019s 2014 team titles as Andy Hawtin ran brilliantly to win the men\u2019s race in 29.05 &amp; Christina Cooper continued her excellent form by finishing 2<sup>nd<\/sup> in the women\u2019s race in 32.34. Packing well and emphasising the competitiveness at the top of the men\u2019s order Chris Pearson was 3<sup>rd<\/sup> in 29.26, James Cassidy 4<sup>th<\/sup> in 29.39 &amp; Dominic Sharman 6<sup>th<\/sup> in 30.03. Andy, Chris &amp; James also had the satisfaction of recording PBs for the distance. Andy Orme followed Christina Cooper home in a well-run 32.45 for 21<sup>st<\/sup> place overall before Lisa Wright &amp; Suki Kaur both performed solidly for 40.35 &amp; 45.10 and finishing positions in the women\u2019s race of 22<sup>nd<\/sup> &amp; 48<sup>th<\/sup> respectively. It was also great to see a racing appearance from ex Club Champion Dave McMillan, who ran a very respectable 36.33.<br \/>\nIt was the culmination of a winter\u2019s training for 4 of the Club\u2019s runners as they tackled the Greater Manchester Marathon. All were making their marathon debuts and all should be well pleased with their efforts. Christian Glover confirmed that his excellent effort in the Ashby 20 was a good guide to his form by completing the course in 3.18.23 while Tracey Glover showed her usual grit &amp; determination by finishing in 3.36.20. This is well within the \u2018Good for Age\u2019 qualifying time for next year\u2019s London Marathon. Sam Skidmore, despite being quoted as saying \u2018never again\u2019 on finishing, completed the course in a very respectable 4.31.17 with Mark Skidmore battling well to complete the Club\u2019s finishers in 5.44.25.<br \/>\nSix of the Club\u2019s runners also joined over 3000 others on the start line for the Derby 10k &amp; it was Louise Insley who showed she is right back to form after an enforced injury break by winning the women\u2019s race in a storming 37.11. Louise\u2019s performance was also good enough to place her in 61<sup>st<\/sup> place overall in a really competitive race. Wayne Kelleher got in some excellent conditioning before his trip to Australia by completing the course in 49.04 with Colin Topliss not far behind in 49.17. Christine Matthews, David Lunn &amp; Maria Allen all performed well to record 50.37, 51.09 &amp; 54.50 respectively.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First past the post!!! On a really busy day for the Club the main focus of attention was on the Club\u2019s own race and the first race in this year\u2019s Burton &amp; District Summer League, the Conkers 5.<\/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-2389","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\/2389","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=2389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}