{"id":3175,"date":"2016-12-13T14:05:20","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T14:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/?p=3175"},"modified":"2016-12-13T14:05:20","modified_gmt":"2016-12-13T14:05:20","slug":"bradgate-xc-sneyd-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/?p=3175","title":{"rendered":"Bradgate XC &#038; Sneyd 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<strong>Yellow\u2019s to the fore<\/strong><br \/>\nThe 3<sup>rd<\/sup> round of this year\u2019s Derby Runner XC League took place at Bradgate Park on Sunday over a course that was the polar opposite of the bland, flat, dry course used for this weekend\u2019s European Cross Country Championships in Sardinia. <!--more-->There was an excellent turnout of 32 runners from the Club with\u00a0Chris Pearson continuing to do what he has done all season by leading the Club\u2019s runner\u2019s home in 16<sup>th<\/sup> place in the men\u2019s race in a time of 33:36. Pushing him all the way, in a superb cross country debut for the Club, was Alun-Lloyd Thomas in 22<sup>nd<\/sup> place in 34:17. Next home was the consistent Shane Chapman in an excellent 39<sup>th<\/sup> place before Mark Harriott, who has had a really hectic racing year, finished in 83<sup>rd<\/sup>. Not far behind was a resurgent Chris Gunstone and Andy Windle as they finished in 86<sup>th<\/sup> and 93<sup>rd<\/sup> places respectively. The closest inter-Club battle though involved Christian Glover and Simon Reynolds as they were separated by only 2 seconds in 113<sup>th<\/sup> &amp; 115<sup>th<\/sup> places. Nigel Atkins, Glenn Smith, Dave Eyre and Chris Hanman gave everything as they finished in 133<sup>rd<\/sup>, 136<sup>th<\/sup>, 139<sup>th<\/sup> and 141<sup>st<\/sup> places respectively. The improving Phil Daws finished in 146<sup>th<\/sup> before Club stalwarts Steve Leafe and Andy Orme crossed the line in 156<sup>th<\/sup> &amp; 159<sup>th<\/sup> places. Romain Chambard ran well for 162<sup>nd<\/sup> place before Colin Mee who, because of work commitments, is racing without a great deal of training, finished in 178<sup>th<\/sup>. \u00a0Tom Eyre finished in a creditable 187<sup>th<\/sup> before Matt Long showed significant improvement from the last round as he finished here in 221<sup>st<\/sup>. Paul Glover crossed the line next in 241<sup>st<\/sup> before recent MV70 Ray Udall finished in 266<sup>th<\/sup>. Robin Thorne ran well to finish in 291<sup>st<\/sup> before Tony Richards, Mark Nixon, Richard Ward &amp; Stuart Reeves completed the finishers in the men\u2019s race in 295<sup>th<\/sup>, 302<sup>nd<\/sup>, 309<sup>th<\/sup> &amp; 319<sup>th<\/sup> places respectively. For Ward it wasn\u2019t the end of his day\u2019s efforts as he cycled home with ironman bound Dave Eyre.<br \/>\nThe Club\u2019s women also performed brilliantly as a team with Jenny Laing running superbly to finish in 9<sup>th<\/sup> place in the women\u2019s race in a time 39:33. Performance of the day though was probably from Becky Atkins as she continued her recent improvement to finish in 55<sup>th<\/sup>. Nikki Reeves and Kat Smith also scored valuable team points as they finished in 96<sup>th<\/sup> &amp; 141<sup>st<\/sup> places respectively. Emily Atkins and Emma Sharp gave everything to finish in 173<sup>rd<\/sup> &amp; 185<sup>th<\/sup> places to complete the Club\u2019s finishers in the women\u2019s race.<br \/>\nAlso in action on Sunday were Kelly Knight, Gary Price and Carolynn Ife who competed with credit in the Sneyd 10 Christmas Pudding Run as finishing times of 70:31, 77:18 &amp; 111:26 respectively confirm.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yellow\u2019s to the fore The 3rd round of this year\u2019s Derby Runner XC League took place at Bradgate Park on Sunday over a course that was the polar opposite of the bland, flat, dry course used for this weekend\u2019s European Cross Country Championships in Sardinia.<\/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-3175","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\/3175","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=3175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}