 Race Report: DRL Round 5 2025: Shipley Park
Once again we had a fantastic turn out, as it has been all year, for the final race of the DRL summer league with 32 runners out for the club last Tuesday night to take on the reasonably hilly course in Shipley park. First home was once again Matt Hammond in 6th overall and a time of 31:35. In the other scoring places for the men's team we had Rich Myers (24th), Stuart Laurie (27th), Ryan Stocks (55th), Kevin Johnson (69th), Steve Robinson Day (94th) and David Hill (98th). Also representing the club we had Darren Dodsley, Chris Laban, Simon Tooth, Steve Sharpe, Glen Weston, Dom Devlin, Oli Braybrook, Dave Fuller, Chris Chandler, Rob Gooch, Paul Coe, Alan Cook, Nick Tennant and Michael O'Brien. For the ladies first home was Helen Woods 60th overall and 4th lady in 36:00. In the scoring positions we had Eve Taylor (18th), Nicola Chamberlain (24th) and Zoe Attenborough (Furley) (28th). Also representing the club we had Emma Meredith (Makin), Kirsty Perry, Sam Garside, Kirstie Dodsley, Katie Newton, Jen Turner, Wendy Akers and Alexis Hutchinson. Thanks also to Angela, Dave, Micky and Jo for their support on the night. So concludes the summer DRL, our men's team finished 7th, ladies 4th and combined 7th. We have had 59 different runners don the maroon and silver in the DRL this year with an average of 34 at a race, our biggest turn out was 40 for the first race at Teversal. 16 runners attended every race in the league with a further 6 ran the 4 races needed to get a position in the final standings. We had a few runners in podium positions, Rich Myers was 2nd in M45, Michael O'Brien was 3rd in M70, Matt Hammond was 2nd in MS and Helen Woods 2nd in F45, 3rd lady overall. Full results from the series and from each race in it can be found on the Derby Runner webscorer page here https://www.webscorer.com/149743. Well done to everyone who took part in the summer DRL and thanks to all who supported. One more AAA summer race then we can turn our attention back to the muddy stuff. Dom Devlin |