{"id":4112,"date":"2019-01-21T15:06:24","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T15:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/?p=4112"},"modified":"2019-01-21T15:06:24","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T15:06:24","slug":"allestree-4-villages-and-coed-y-brenin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/?p=4112","title":{"rendered":"Allestree, 4 Villages and Coed y Brenin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Onwards and upwards\nfor James<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cross country fixtures are coming thick and fast at this\ntime of year particularly with South Derbyshire Road Runners involvement in\nboth area versions of the Derby Runner League. On Sunday it was the turn of the\nDerby\/Staffordshire version with 31 members completing a 2 lap course of\napproximately 6 miles in total at Allestree Park. Again, it was 18 year old\nJames Farmer who led the men\u2019s team home with a superb 2<sup>nd<\/sup> place\nfinish. A day after celebrating completing 250 parkruns, mainly at Rosliston,\nhe had the satisfaction here of edging out his regular training partner and\nmotivator, Chris Pearson who ran brilliantly for 4<sup>th<\/sup> place. Ross\nClarke, who is having a terrific series, was next in 8<sup>th<\/sup> place with\nStuart Halsey producing another quality run in 12<sup>th<\/sup>. Nathan Fagan\nand team captain Andy Orme collected the 27<sup>th<\/sup> and 33<sup>rd<\/sup>\nplace finishing tokens with strongman Romain Chambard and a resurgent Matt Long\ncompleting the men\u2019s team finishers in 41<sup>st<\/sup> and 47<sup>th<\/sup>\nplaces respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pushing Long all the way were Nigel Atkins in 49<sup>th<\/sup>\nand Ross Ballinger in 53<sup>rd<\/sup> with a really tight inter-club battle\nresulting in Andy Lindley in 60<sup>th<\/sup> just edging out Chris Elsegood in\n61<sup>st<\/sup> and, the Club\u2019s most improved runner, Paul Glover in 63<sup>rd<\/sup>.\nKev Clarke ran solidly for 81<sup>st<\/sup> place before Tony Richards, Gary\nPrice and Dave Walters had their own race within a race as they finished in 95<sup>th<\/sup>,\n96<sup>th<\/sup> and 97<sup>th<\/sup> places respectively. Mark Murkin gave\neverything to complete the men\u2019s finishers in a creditable 113<sup>th<\/sup>\nplace.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With Jenny Laing restored to full fitness after missing last\nweek\u2019s race the Club\u2019s women were assured of a great lead out and she didn\u2019t\ndisappoint here as she collected the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> place finishing token.\nChristina Hawtin ran superbly for 5<sup>th<\/sup> place with Tracey Glover and\nthe improving Lisa Wright having their own personal battle as they completed\nthe women\u2019s team finishers in 15<sup>th<\/sup> and 16<sup>th<\/sup> places\nrespectively. <\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Slowly getting back to form women\u2019s team captain Nikki\nReeves was next in 26<sup>th<\/sup> place with Sam Skidmore and triathlete\nHannah Wintrip both running well to finish in 30<sup>th<\/sup> and 48<sup>th<\/sup>\nplaces.&nbsp; Rebecca Lenaghan in 56<sup>th<\/sup>,\nEmily Atkins in 59<sup>th<\/sup> and Sarah Walters in 65<sup>th<\/sup> made light\nof the conditions before Emma Sharpe, Pauline Cooper and Cath Johnstone gave\ntheir usual maximum effort to complete the finishers in the women\u2019s race in 76<sup>th<\/sup>,\n90<sup>th<\/sup> and 96<sup>th<\/sup> places respectively. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sam Bassett and Kelvin Taylor were much further afield with\nboth tackling the half marathon distance. However, the races couldn\u2019t have been\nmore different with Sam tackling the 37<sup>th<\/sup> version of the Essar 4\nVillages Half Marathon around the country lanes of Cheshire and Kelvin the\nforest trails of Coed-y- Brenin in the Buff Winter Trail Half Marathon. What\nthey both had in common though was that they both ran with distinction\nrecording chip times of 01:26:33 and 02:4:37 respectively. <\/p>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Onwards and upwards for James Cross country fixtures are coming thick and fast at this time of year particularly with South Derbyshire Road Runners involvement in both area versions of the Derby Runner League. On Sunday it was the turn of the Derby\/Staffordshire version with 31 members completing a 2 lap course of approximately 6Continue reading &rarr;<\/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-4112","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\/4112","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=4112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}