{"id":4547,"date":"2022-01-17T09:02:08","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T09:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/?p=4547"},"modified":"2022-01-17T09:02:08","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T09:02:08","slug":"martin-shaw-woods-xc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/?p=4547","title":{"rendered":"Martin Shaw Woods XC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Tasty battle at the front!!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the first Derby Runner Cross Country fixture of the year at Martin Shaw Woods near Groby, Leicestershire entrants from the Club were back to pre-pandemic levels, which was also reflected in formidable team performances and some great inter-club competition. Leading the way was the battle between Chris Pearson and Steve Bullock with the former having the edge on this occasion as they finished in excellent 11<sup>th<\/sup> and 14<sup>th<\/sup> positions, respectively. Andy Hawtin and Dan Bower also made welcome returns to cross country action as they finished in 42<sup>nd<\/sup> and 51<sup>st<\/sup> places with Steve Green and Rich Miller also scoring valuable team points as they collected the 65<sup>th<\/sup> and 74<sup>th<\/sup> place finishing tokens. Chris Hanman in 82<sup>nd<\/sup> and Robbie Cresswell in 88<sup>th<\/sup> place completed the club\u2019s team finishers in a strong men\u2019s team showing. Micheal Walters ran strongly to finish in 98<sup>th<\/sup> place followed closely by the resurgent MV60 Colin Mee in 102<sup>nd<\/sup> place. Mee is having a purple patch now and his sure-footed technique seems to be well suited to the challenges of cross country running. Breathing down his neck for most of the race was Nathan Fagan, who finished one place further back in 103<sup>rd<\/sup>. Men\u2019s Club Captain, Andy Orme and David Green finished in 116<sup>th<\/sup> and 121<sup>st<\/sup> positions before the improving Ross Ballinger and Steve Leafe fought another close battle as they finished in 147<sup>th<\/sup> and 148<sup>th<\/sup> positions, respectively. Relative newcomer Martin Bullock ran well for 164<sup>th<\/sup> place before Andy Meadows, Nigel Atkins, Kevin Clarke, and David Walters gave everything as they completed the Club\u2019s finishers in the men\u2019s race in 180<sup>th<\/sup>, 199<sup>th<\/sup>, 202<sup>nd<\/sup> and 207<sup>th<\/sup> places, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fittingly, women\u2019s club captain Lisa Wright led the Club\u2019s women home in a hard running 36<sup>th<\/sup> place finish with Emma Sharpe, Sarah Walters, and Julianne Walters giving great support as they completed the team\u2019s finishers in 76<sup>th<\/sup>, 98<sup>th<\/sup>, and 130<sup>th<\/sup> places, respectively. Giving their usual maximum effort little separated Sarah Green, Helen Clarke, and Theresa Swift as they collected the 138<sup>th<\/sup>, 141<sup>st<\/sup>, and 142<sup>nd<\/sup> place tokens, respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasty battle at the front!! In the first Derby Runner Cross Country fixture of the year at Martin Shaw Woods near Groby, Leicestershire entrants from the Club were back to pre-pandemic levels, which was also reflected in formidable team performances and some great inter-club competition. Leading the way was the battle between Chris Pearson andContinue 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-4547","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\/4547","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=4547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}