{"id":2431,"date":"2015-05-18T20:11:40","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T20:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/?p=2431"},"modified":"2015-05-18T20:11:40","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T20:11:40","slug":"west-end-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/?p=2431","title":{"rendered":"West End 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<strong>Chris sets the pace!!<\/strong><br \/>\nRaces come thick &amp; fast at this time of year &amp; the last race in this year\u2019s ultra-competitive Leicestershire Road Running Winter League, the West End 8, was the latest challenge facing 22 members of the Club on Sunday. <!--more-->In good running conditions, over a typically undulating Leicestershire course, it was another epic battle between Chris Pearson &amp; Andy Hawtin that was the highlight at the front of the race. On this occasion only 4 seconds on chip time separated the two with Chris edging it in 48.58 to Andy\u2019s 49.02 &amp; 37<sup>th<\/sup> &amp; 39<sup>th<\/sup> places respectively. The performance of the day though was undoubtedly Jenny Laing-Brierley\u2019s superb 2<sup>nd<\/sup> place finish in the women\u2019s race in a time of 53.01. Showing the fitness benefits of a good performance in this year\u2019s London Marathon, Jenny was only 10 seconds behind the race winner. Christian Glover, another showing significant benefit from a spring marathon, also performed well over this unusual distance to finish in 53.11 &amp; 91<sup>st<\/sup> place before the ever consistent, Andy Orme, stopped the clock in 54.06. The improving Tom Eyre was next in 57.24 before little separated Adrian Middleton, Paul Glover &amp; Tracey Glover as they battled to chip times of 59.16, 59.28 &amp; 59.49 respectively. Club debutant Glenn Smith had a great start in Club colours in completing the course in 62.21 before Club stalwart&#8217;s Gary Price, Tim Argent &amp; MV60, Steve Tempest gave everything in achieving finishing times of 63.07, 64.35 &amp; 65.37 respectively. \u00a0Battling for Club Championship points with Richard Ward, David Lunn edged it on this occasion 68.55 to Richard\u2019s 69.31 before Karen Wilkes in 74.01 led home Chris Morton in 74.39 &amp; Suki Kaur in 74.45. Kerry Ward wasn\u2019t far behind in 76.41 before Linda Mason (80.55), Katherine Smith (82.35) &amp; Linda Tempest (83.34) gave everything they had in completing a good day for the Club\u2019s runners.<br \/>\nOn the other side of the world, in a much warmer climate &amp; in total different scenery Wayne Kelleher wore his yellow vest with pride in completing the Sydney Half Marathon in 1.50.00.<br \/>\n&nbsp;\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris sets the pace!! Races come thick &amp; fast at this time of year &amp; the last race in this year\u2019s ultra-competitive Leicestershire Road Running Winter League, the West End 8, was the latest challenge facing 22 members of the Club on Sunday.<\/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-2431","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\/2431","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=2431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}