{"id":4447,"date":"2020-01-14T14:06:17","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T14:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/?p=4447"},"modified":"2020-01-14T14:06:17","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T14:06:17","slug":"groby-xc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/?p=4447","title":{"rendered":"Groby XC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Abbey national!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was the morning after the Club\u2019s Annual Presentation Night but it didn\u2019t stop 16 hardy members lining up on the start line at Groby for the latest leg in this year\u2019s Derby Runner XC League. In the more competitive Leicestershire division of the league Abbey Van Dijk showed what a quality runner she is by storming home in 1<sup>st<\/sup> place in the women\u2019s race. This was eight days after Abbey finished 5<sup>th<\/sup> in a tight race over a tough 8km course at Shipley Park in the Derbyshire Cross Country Championship. This performance secured a county vest and well-earned selection in the Inter County Championship at nearby Prestwold Hall in March. Great team support was provided in the women\u2019s race by Club Captain, Lisa Wright in 40<sup>th<\/sup>, Nikki Reeves in 42<sup>nd<\/sup> and a determined Becky Lenaghan in 112<sup>th<\/sup>. Emma Sharp, who the night before was deservedly a division winner, was next home with the redoubtable Pauline Cooper completing the Club\u2019s finishers in the women\u2019s race in 250<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Club Chairman and Men\u2019s Club Champion for the second year,\nAndy Hawtin led the Club\u2019s men home in a solid 18<sup>th<\/sup> place with two\nof the area\u2019s best MV50 runners, Rich Miller and Mark Harriott, performing with\ndistinction in 51<sup>st<\/sup> and 84<sup>th<\/sup> places respectively. Men\u2019s\nClub Captain, Andy Orme set his usual good example as he finished in 139<sup>th<\/sup>\nwith Steve Leafe, easing his way back after injury, in 165<sup>th<\/sup>. Ross\nBallinger, who had a running year to remember in 2019, also started this year\nin great style in 193<sup>rd<\/sup> place with Adrian Middleton not far behind\nin 212<sup>th<\/sup> and Joe Baldwin, had the distinction of completing the\nteam\u2019s scorers in the men\u2019s race, in 225<sup>th<\/sup>. Lewis Cotton was close\nbehind in 232<sup>nd<\/sup> with MV60 Mitch Timms completing the Club\u2019s\nfinishers in the men\u2019s race in 261<sup>st<\/sup>. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abbey national!!! It was the morning after the Club\u2019s Annual Presentation Night but it didn\u2019t stop 16 hardy members lining up on the start line at Groby for the latest leg in this year\u2019s Derby Runner XC League. In the more competitive Leicestershire division of the league Abbey Van Dijk showed what a quality runnerContinue 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-4447","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\/4447","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=4447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}