{"id":4456,"date":"2020-01-19T18:51:58","date_gmt":"2020-01-19T18:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/?p=4456"},"modified":"2020-01-19T18:51:58","modified_gmt":"2020-01-19T18:51:58","slug":"allestree-cross-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/?p=4456","title":{"rendered":"Allestree Cross Country"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>It\u2019s Abbey again!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Abbey Van Dijk seems to be getting stronger with every race. In the latest leg of this season\u2019s Derby Runner Cross Country League (Staffs &amp; Derby) at Allestree, Abbey was again 1<sup>st<\/sup> in the women\u2019s race and also the first of the Club\u2019s 28 competitors to finish. \u00a0On a cold, frosty, misty morning over a very muddy course Chris Pearson was next across the line for a superb 7<sup>th<\/sup> place in the men\u2019s race with Seb Van Dijk, who is improving with every race, close behind in 10<sup>th<\/sup>. The ultra-reliable Mark Harriott was next in 15<sup>th<\/sup> with Tim Rhodes, Men\u2019s Captain Andy Orme and Mikey Walters all giving everything to finish in 34<sup>th<\/sup>, 42<sup>nd<\/sup> and 50<sup>th<\/sup> places respectively. The evergreen Matt Long and Steve Leafe both defied the year\u2019s to finish in 54<sup>th<\/sup> and 59<sup>th<\/sup> places respectively and deservedly completed the team scorers in the men\u2019s race. Ross Ballinger collected the 63<sup>rd<\/sup> place finishing token with Andy Meadows in 66<sup>th<\/sup> finishing ahead of a plethora of quality runners including the returning Colin Mee in 73<sup>rd<\/sup> and Joe Baldwin in 79<sup>th<\/sup>. Kevin Clarke, Chris Elsegood and David Green battled through the mud to finish in 85<sup>th<\/sup>, 90<sup>th<\/sup> and 93<sup>rd<\/sup> places with David hampered, as was Mikey Walters before him, by having to go searching for a lost shoe. Tony Richards, Dave Walters and Mitch Timms gave everything to complete the Club\u2019s finishers in the men\u2019s race in 103<sup>rd<\/sup>, 106<sup>th<\/sup> and 109<sup>th<\/sup> places. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Team wise it was another strong performance by the Club\u2019s women with Tracey Glover running strongly for 10<sup>th<\/sup> place, Women\u2019s Club Captain, Lisa Wright in 25<sup>th<\/sup> and Becky Lenaghan in 46<sup>th<\/sup> providing excellent team support behind Abbey Van Dijk. Emma Sharp again performed well to finish in 60<sup>th<\/sup> place just edging out Sarah Walters in 66<sup>th<\/sup> and cross country debutant Ellie Dickson, in another of the performances of the day, in 72<sup>nd<\/sup>. Helen Clarke made light of the conditions to finish in 84<sup>th<\/sup> with Anna Casey and Julianne Walters not too far behind in 89<sup>th<\/sup> and 90<sup>th<\/sup> places. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s Abbey again!!! Abbey Van Dijk seems to be getting stronger with every race. In the latest leg of this season\u2019s Derby Runner Cross Country League (Staffs &amp; Derby) at Allestree, Abbey was again 1st in the women\u2019s race and also the first of the Club\u2019s 28 competitors to finish. \u00a0On a cold, frosty, mistyContinue 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-4456","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\/4456","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=4456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}