{"id":4444,"date":"2019-12-16T18:16:34","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T18:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/?p=4444"},"modified":"2019-12-16T18:16:34","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T18:16:34","slug":"shipley-pisa-the-roaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/?p=4444","title":{"rendered":"Shipley, Pisa &#038; the Roaches"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Farmer is\nback!!!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">James Farmer, fresh from his first term at university, showed that he has used his time well as he led the Club\u2019s contingent of 24 home in the latest leg of the Derby Runner Cross Country League (Staffs and Derby). His superb 2<sup>nd<\/sup> place finish led a really strong showing by both the Club\u2019s men\u2019s and women\u2019s team over what was, unsurprisingly, very heavy going in Shipley Park. James was followed home by Ross Clarke in 5<sup>th<\/sup>, who underlined what an excellent season of continuous improvement he has had. Seb Van Dijk ran strongly for 9<sup>th<\/sup> place as did cross country debutant Steve Bullock in 13<sup>th<\/sup> and the more seasoned Andy Windle in 17<sup>th<\/sup>. Chris Hanman followed up his superb last racing performance with an excellent 20<sup>th<\/sup> place finish with Mark Harriott in 29<sup>th<\/sup> and Ben Holmes in 31<sup>st<\/sup>, holding it all together to complete the men\u2019s team finishers. Great support was provided by Rom Chambard in 34<sup>th<\/sup>, Dave Green in 36<sup>th<\/sup> and the evergreen Matt Long in 41<sup>st<\/sup>. Men\u2019s team captain, Andy Orme collected the 44<sup>th<\/sup> place finishing token with Hector Arenas, gaining more valuable racing experience, in 59<sup>th<\/sup> and Ian Archer in 64<sup>th<\/sup>. There was then close racing between Paul Glover in 73<sup>rd<\/sup>, Chris Elsegood in 75<sup>th<\/sup> and Joe Baldwin in 76<sup>th<\/sup> with Robin Thorne in 104<sup>th<\/sup> completing the Club\u2019s finishers in the men\u2019s race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Running as well as she has ever done, Chrissie Hawtin led\nthe Club\u2019s women home with another excellent 2<sup>nd<\/sup> place finish with\nKatie Dennis in 5<sup>th<\/sup>, Tracey Glover in 11<sup>th<\/sup> and Women\u2019s\nteam captain, Lisa Wright, setting a brilliant example in 16<sup>th<\/sup>\ncompleting a really solid team showing. Rebecca Lenaghan ran well for 40<sup>th<\/sup>\nplace with Sarah Walters continuing her love affair with the mud and water\nfinishing in 46<sup>th<\/sup>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shane Chapman continued his cultural tour of Europe when he tackled the Pisa Half Marathon and ran strongly to finish in a very respectable 01:31. Meanwhile, Gary Price, Paul Hudson, Kev Clarke and Andy Meadows were in action, courtesy of the Mountain Rescue Service, as they tackled the frequently cancelled Staffordshire Moorlands Christmas Cracker. The race, over approximately 8 miles, is mainly off road and rises to 1500 feet above sea level along the exposed Roaches gritstone ridge. Our intrepid runners finished en bloc taking the finishing times from 96:10 and finishing places from 103<sup>rd<\/sup> onwards. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Farmer is back!!!!! James Farmer, fresh from his first term at university, showed that he has used his time well as he led the Club\u2019s contingent of 24 home in the latest leg of the Derby Runner Cross Country League (Staffs and Derby). His superb 2nd place finish led a really strong showing byContinue 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-4444","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\/4444","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=4444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}