{"id":4120,"date":"2019-02-11T16:20:26","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T16:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/?p=4120"},"modified":"2019-02-11T16:20:26","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T16:20:26","slug":"anslow-draycote-water-park-cannock-chase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/?p=4120","title":{"rendered":"Anslow, Draycote Water Park &#038; Cannock Chase"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Debut boys do the business!!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A return visit to Anslow was the venue for the latest leg of the Derbyshire\/Staffordshire section of the Derby Runner Cross Country League with 19 runners of the Club&#8217;s runners lining up on the start line in wet conditions. When the racing started it was again the determined 18 year old James Farmer who led the way home with a superb 3<sup>rd<\/sup> place finish. The Club will certainly miss James when, if everything goes to plan, he decamps to university in September. Reigning Club Champion, Andy Hawtin was next in 4<sup>th<\/sup> place with cross country debutant&#8217;s Tom Ward in 10<sup>th<\/sup>, Dave Hobbs in 18<sup>th<\/sup> and Ben Holmes in 23<sup>rd<\/sup> all contributing superbly to a terrific team performance. Sandwiched between them was top MV50, Stuart Halsey in 14<sup>th<\/sup> with Sam Bassett and team captain Andy Orme bringing the team home in 28<sup>th<\/sup> and 33<sup>rd<\/sup> places respectively. The improving Matt Long was next in 39<sup>th<\/sup> place before great packing from Nigel Atkins in 50<sup>th<\/sup>, strongman Rom Chambard in 52<sup>nd<\/sup> and Adie Middleton in 55<sup>th<\/sup>. Paul Glover, one of numerous runners from the Club training for a spring marathon or beyond, defied his tired legs to finish in 73<sup>rd<\/sup> before Tony Richards and Mark Nixon completed the Club\u2019s finishers in the men\u2019s race in 84<sup>th<\/sup> and 93<sup>rd<\/sup> places.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the women\u2019s race Tracey Glover in 13<sup>th<\/sup>, Emily\nAtkins in 29<sup>th<\/sup>, Rebecca Lenaghan in 41<sup>st<\/sup> and Emma Sharp in\n50<sup>th<\/sup> gave everything to the team cause to make up superbly for the\nunavoidable absence of some of the more usual team scorers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kat Smith was in 10k action at a cold and wet Draycote Water\nPark and should be pleased with a chip time of 57:04 and finishing position of\n56<sup>th<\/sup> in the women\u2019s race. Four others of the Club\u2019s intrepid runners\nfound themselves in more rugged countryside in the Cannock Chase 10 miler. For\nChris Pearson, in a brilliant 2<sup>nd<\/sup> place in a chip time of 65:16, and\nShane Chapman, in 8<sup>th<\/sup> place in 70:52, this type of countryside is\nvery familiar and their preferred environment be it mountain biking or running.\nAndy Allsop ran well for 17<sup>th<\/sup> place in 73:33 with second claimer Mitch\nTimms finishing in 149<sup>th<\/sup> in 98:32 sealing an unexpected but well\ndeserved team prize for the quartet. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Debut boys do the business!! A return visit to Anslow was the venue for the latest leg of the Derbyshire\/Staffordshire section of the Derby Runner Cross Country League with 19 runners of the Club&#8217;s runners lining up on the start line in wet conditions. When the racing started it was again the determined 18 yearContinue 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-4120","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\/4120","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=4120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}