{"id":4549,"date":"2022-02-06T19:48:07","date_gmt":"2022-02-06T19:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/?p=4549"},"modified":"2022-02-06T19:48:07","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T19:48:07","slug":"boothorpe-cross-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/?p=4549","title":{"rendered":"Boothorpe Cross Country"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Mud, mud glorious mud!!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the latest leg of the Derby Runner Cross Country League (Derby\/Staffs) runners experienced four seasons in one day with wet and windy being the dominant conditions. This was the Club&#8217;s own event and the National Forest site at Boothorpe provided a proper cross-country challenge. Team wise this was the strongest performance by the Road Runners in the series so far with the Club\u2019s men\u2019s and women\u2019s teams coming out on top in their respective races. Leading the way in both races were third place finishes for the super strong Chris Pearson and Jenny Laing. For the men\u2019s team, as he has done all season, Steve Bullock provided brilliant support as he finished in sixth place with Seb van Dijk, Steve Green and Rich Miller packing brilliantly as they collected the 12<sup>th<\/sup>, 14<sup>th,<\/sup> and 17<sup>th<\/sup> finishing tokens, respectively. Sam Bassett looked super strong throughout as did debutant Jacob Edmonds as they finished in 22<sup>nd<\/sup> and 30<sup>th<\/sup> places with the steadily improving Mikey Walters completing the men\u2019s team finishers in a well run 32<sup>nd<\/sup> place. In terms of the women\u2019s team Katie Dennis put in her usual committed performance as she finished in 22<sup>nd<\/sup> place with creditable performances from Kat Compton in 34<sup>th<\/sup> and Emma Sharp in 52<sup>nd<\/sup> as they completed the women\u2019s team finishers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the women\u2019s race Sarah Green gained valuable race experience in finishing in 70<sup>th<\/sup> place while the irrepressible Pauline Cooper finished in 75<sup>th<\/sup> as she performed the important race role of sweep person on the course. There was great packing below the team finishers in the men\u2019s race with Andy Hawtin\u2019s 36<sup>th<\/sup> place finish epitomising the \u2018never say die spirit\u2019 of the Club as he dragged back a substantial number of places on the downhill finish after looking a spent force on the long uphill climb. Rom Chambard collected the 39<sup>th<\/sup> place token with MV60 Colin Mee, just one place back, in 40<sup>th<\/sup>. The resurgent Mee has had an excellent series and could end up collecting age group prizes in both divisions after already securing the Leicestershire division with one race to go. Andy Orme ran strongly for 42<sup>nd<\/sup> place as did Dave Green in 49<sup>th<\/sup> and Steve Leafe in 58<sup>th<\/sup>. Ross Ballinger, Martin Bullock, and debutant Jay Darney completed a good morning of racing in scenic conditions as they finished in 63<sup>rd<\/sup>, 65<sup>th<\/sup>, and 84<sup>th<\/sup> places, respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mud, mud glorious mud!! In the latest leg of the Derby Runner Cross Country League (Derby\/Staffs) runners experienced four seasons in one day with wet and windy being the dominant conditions. This was the Club&#8217;s own event and the National Forest site at Boothorpe provided a proper cross-country challenge. Team wise this was the strongestContinue 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-4549","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\/4549","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=4549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}