Andy Hawtin tightened his grip on the 2013 South Derbyshire Road Runner\u2019s Club Championship as he led the Club\u2019s runners home in the final race of this year\u2019s Leicestershire Road Running League, the West End 8. In good running conditions, over a rural course most of the Club\u2019s runners were tackling the unusual distance of 8 miles for the first time. Andy\u2019s 51.33 was good enough for 57th<\/sup> place out of 391 finishers to round off a superb debut season in the League. Not far behind was Chris Mason who continued his good form and dominance in the MV60 class to record 52.01 for 67th<\/sup> place overall. There was then a close race between Andy Orme and Roger Matthews. Andy, fresh from being selected as Parkrun runner of the month, edged out the improving Roger on this occasion with times of 54.16 and 54.26 and finishing places of 90th<\/sup> and 93rd<\/sup> respectively.\u00a0 Still hampered by a lingering virus Colin Mee put in his usual battling performance to record a chip time of 54.42 for 98th<\/sup> place. Andy\u2019s out in front! Andy Hawtin tightened his grip on the 2013 South Derbyshire Road Runner\u2019s Club Championship as he led the Club\u2019s runners home in the final race of this year\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-race-reports","no-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nFinishing behind Colin but with a much improved performance was Gavin Horton who was much happier than of late with his 56.10 and 124th<\/sup> place. This performance gave Gavin maximum points in the Division 2 title race. Putting in his usual gritty performance, Ray Udall was next to finish in 57.35 ahead of Christina Cooper who ran really well for 61.07 and 19th<\/sup> place in the women\u2019s race. Gary Price, the early pacesetter in Division 3, and Trevor Rickman were next to finish in 63.25 and 69.52 respectively with Carolyn Ife completing the finishers for the Club with a hard run 76.30. Carolyn, providing she keeps clear of injuries, looks an early favourite to secure the Division 4 title.
\nThe previous weekend Carolyn and Cath Johnston represented the Club in the Wymeswold Waddle 5. Carolyn\u2019s official time was 45.36 in 180th<\/sup>\u00a0place an improvement of 9 minutes on her previous 5 mile race time a few months ago. Cath, after a good run, finished in 53.28 for 224th<\/sup>\u00a0place. The course was two and a half miles up hill and two and a half miles back down.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"