{"id":2883,"date":"2016-04-25T19:06:54","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T19:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/?p=2883"},"modified":"2016-04-25T19:06:54","modified_gmt":"2016-04-25T19:06:54","slug":"london-stratford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/?p=2883","title":{"rendered":"London &#038; Stratford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">Shane storms the streets of London<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">Sunday saw thousands of runners and their family &amp; friends make their way to London in record numbers to take part in the most high profile race in the runner\u2019s calendar, the Virgin Money London Marathon. <\/span><!--more--><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">Seven runners from\u00a0the Club\u00a0were amongst the multitudes who lined up at the various starts to tackle the iconic 26.2 miles and it was Shane Chapman, who was first back for the Club, in a superb 2:57:50. On a cold, but dry day, Paul\u2019s performance also had the added benefit of achieving the \u2018Good for Age\u2019 standard &amp; qualification for next year\u2019s race. The next two runners back for the Club also had the satisfaction of achieving \u2018Good for Age\u2019 standards as Mark Harriott and Tracey Glover recorded excellent chip times of 3:10:48 and 3:36:41 respectively. For\u00a0Mark it was great reward for a winter of dedicated training and for\u00a0Tracey her time firmly banished any concerns about the qualifying time she achieved at the Manchester Marathon, which was subsequently found to be 380m short of the standard distance. Paul Glover, on his marathon debut, gave everything to just duck under the 4 hour barrier in 3:59:18. Nikki Reeves, who\u2019s had a far from textbook build up to the race, nevertheless did well to record 4:19:42 while Tony Phillips, whose starting place came from a superb time achieved at the Boston Marathon, should be equally pleased with his 4:35:34. Completing the finishers for the Club was Ron Lane\u2019s 5:57:29. MV70 Lane probably has the record of most appearances from a South Derbyshire Road Runner in this superbly organised event. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">London was not the only marathon taking place on Sunday with Steve Fowler tackling the Shakespeare variety while Caley Parnell opted for the half marathon at the same event. They had contrasting fortunes with\u00a0Steve suffering from the eternal marathon challenge of going brilliantly for most of the race but then experiencing injury niggles that gave him a disappointing but still respectable finishing time of 4:40:17. For Caley, her chip time of 1:41:48 was a massive 2 minute improvement on her performance at last year\u2019s event.<\/span>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shane storms the streets of London Sunday saw thousands of runners and their family &amp; friends make their way to London in record numbers to take part in the most high profile race in the runner\u2019s calendar, the Virgin Money London Marathon.<\/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-2883","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\/2883","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=2883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}