{"id":4432,"date":"2019-11-25T15:36:59","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T15:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/?p=4432"},"modified":"2019-11-25T15:36:59","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T15:36:59","slug":"cliff-lakes-clowne-silverstone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/?p=4432","title":{"rendered":"Cliff Lakes, Clowne and Silverstone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Abbey does it\nagain!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The cross country races come thick and fast at this time of year and this Sunday, in the Derby\/Stafford division of the Derby Runner League, it was a new course at Cliff Lakes, Tamworth that the hardy souls, including thirty two from the Club, had to tackle. Needless to say it was very wet and muddy but this didn\u2019t deter Abbey Van Dijk as, for the second consecutive week, she won the women\u2019s race by a significant margin. Abbey was well supported team wise by a resurgent Christina Hawtin in 5<sup>th<\/sup>, Women\u2019s captain Lisa Wright in 21<sup>st<\/sup> and the determined Nikki Reeves in 25<sup>th<\/sup>. Second Claimer Fiona Betts was next in 28<sup>th<\/sup> followed closely by Hazel O\u2019Brien in 30<sup>th<\/sup> and the improving Katarina Compton in 37<sup>th<\/sup>. Becky Moult powered home in 53<sup>rd<\/sup> followed by Sarah Walters in 60<sup>th<\/sup> and Shannon Hurdman, cross country debutant Helen Clarke and Anna Casey in 89<sup>th<\/sup>, 94<sup>th<\/sup> and 95<sup>th<\/sup> places respectively. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Club\u2019s men\u2019s team were led home by Chris Pearson, who revels in the mud and wet, and finished here in an excellent 3<sup>rd<\/sup> place. Someone who has displayed remarkable consistency across all surfaces this year is Mark Harriott and he put local knowledge to good use to finish in a superb 24<sup>th<\/sup> place. The yellow vests then swamped the finish area as the hard running Ben Holmes, Shane Chapman, Micheal Walters and Andy Allsop collected the 28<sup>th<\/sup>, 29<sup>th<\/sup>, 30<sup>th<\/sup> and 32<sup>nd<\/sup> finishing tokens. In a morning of good performances Micheal Walters, on his cross country debut, deserves special mention for a consistent, well-paced effort in testing conditions. Men\u2019s Team Captain, Andy Orme in 48<sup>th<\/sup> and race debutant Hector Arenas in a well-run 55<sup>th<\/sup> completed the men\u2019s team finishers. Mention should also be made of another debutant Darren Wilson who finished in 41<sup>st<\/sup> but unfortunately couldn\u2019t count in the team because of his second claim status. David Green finished in 60<sup>th<\/sup> just edging out another second claimer James Cox in a very promising 61<sup>st<\/sup>. Veteran Matt Long made light of the conditions to finish in 66<sup>th<\/sup> getting the better on this occasion of Ross Ballinger in 81<sup>st<\/sup>, Chris Elsegood in 86<sup>th<\/sup>, the improving Jo Baldwin in 92<sup>nd<\/sup> and another vet, Kev Clarke in 94<sup>th<\/sup>. David Walters, another debutant Paul Newman and Robin Thorne gave everything to the cause as they completed the Club\u2019s finishers in the men\u2019s race in very respectable 112<sup>th<\/sup>, 117<sup>th<\/sup> and 126<sup>th<\/sup> places respectively.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In another busy running weekend there was also significant\ncontingents from the Club in road race action in the popular Clowne and\nSilverstone Half Marathons. Over a challenging Clowne course there were a\nsignificant number of terrific performances with Chris Hanman first back in a personal\nbest chip time of 94:16 for an excellent 56<sup>th<\/sup> place finish. One of\nthe Club\u2019s most improved runners this season Romain Chambard was three places\nback in 94:31 before Steve Leafe, in arguably his best performance of the year,\nstopped the clock in 97:45. There was also a well-deserved personal best from\nKatie Dennis of 98:02 who led home Tracey Glover in 100:48 and Ian Archer in\n101:41. Paul Glover recorded 105:25 before another excellent distance personal\nbest of 107:10 from Mark Murkin. Andy Meadows ran well for his 109:04 as did\nGary Price for 114:45, David Lunn for 129:07 and Emma Sharp for another well-deserved\ndistance personal best of 137:44.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Silverstone race track was the iconic venue for a series of road races on Sunday with the Club&#8217;s contingent of five tackling the half marathon distance. Tim Rhodes was first back in 97:50 followed closely by Andy Lindley in a chip time of 97:52. There was ecstasy and agony for the next finishers with John Pegg ducking under the two hour benchmark in 119:56 and Ellie Dickson and Sarah Rhodes agonisingly missing out with 120:13 and 121:03. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abbey does it again!!! The cross country races come thick and fast at this time of year and this Sunday, in the Derby\/Stafford division of the Derby Runner League, it was a new course at Cliff Lakes, Tamworth that the hardy souls, including thirty two from the Club, had to tackle. Needless to say itContinue reading &rarr;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4432","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\/4432","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=4432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}