{"id":4462,"date":"2020-01-27T14:05:34","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T14:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/?p=4462"},"modified":"2020-01-27T14:05:34","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T14:05:34","slug":"grace-dieu-cross-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/?p=4462","title":{"rendered":"Grace Dieu Cross Country"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Abbey powers home!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another winter Sunday, another Derby Runner Cross Country League race and another decisive victory for Abbey Van Dijk in the women\u2019s race at Grace Dieu on Sunday. In the more competitive Leicestershire division of the league Abbey\u2019s margin of victory over the next finisher was still a significant one. For the women\u2019s team it was a race where new names contributed to the team performance with Becky Lenaghan in 109<sup>th<\/sup>, Helen Clarke in 168<sup>th<\/sup> and Julianne Walters in 172<sup>nd<\/sup> the other team scorers with the resilient Pauline Cooper completing the Club&#8217;s finishers in the women\u2019s race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chris Pearson, in possibly his best cross country performance of the season, was first back for the Club in the men\u2019s race with a 15<sup>th<\/sup> place finish edging out Andy Hawtin, who is putting together a great series of cross races, in 22<sup>nd<\/sup>. The ever reliable Mark Harriott was next in an excellent 55<sup>th<\/sup> with Mikey Walters, arguably producing the Club performance of the day, in 85<sup>th<\/sup> getting the better, on this occasion, of fellow senior, Shane Chapman in 89<sup>th<\/sup>. The consistent Andy Orme was next in a solid 129<sup>th<\/sup> with Ross Ballinger and Hector Arenas giving everything over a very technical course, to complete the Club\u2019s men\u2019s team finishers in 144<sup>th<\/sup> and 147<sup>th<\/sup> places respectively. It was great to see two of the Club\u2019s more seasoned runners finish in relatively close order as Steve Leafe and Colin Mee collected the 161<sup>st<\/sup> and 165<sup>th<\/sup> place finishing tokens with Chris Elsegood and Andy Meadows, continuing his cross country education, in 192<sup>nd<\/sup> and 208<sup>th<\/sup> places respectively. Kevin Clarke showed all of his racing experience to finish in 220<sup>th<\/sup> with the determined Dave Walters completing the Club\u2019s finishers in the men\u2019s race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abbey powers home!!! Another winter Sunday, another Derby Runner Cross Country League race and another decisive victory for Abbey Van Dijk in the women\u2019s race at Grace Dieu on Sunday. In the more competitive Leicestershire division of the league Abbey\u2019s margin of victory over the next finisher was still a significant one. For the women\u2019sContinue 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-4462","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\/4462","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=4462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}