{"id":3307,"date":"2019-12-22T14:48:23","date_gmt":"2019-12-22T14:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/?p=3307"},"modified":"2019-12-22T14:48:23","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T14:48:23","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/3307","title":{"rendered":"Round Rotherham Run"},"content":{"rendered":"

Round Rotherham Run<\/strong><\/p>\n

(Rowbotham’s Round Rotherham)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Saturday 12 October 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

50 miles (80.5 km); 2,625 feet (800 m) of ascent<\/p>\n

A trail run around Rotherham following the Rowbotham’s Round Rotherham footpath mostly over farmland and rural areas on sign-posted paths, bridleways and roads with very little ascent. The weather was about perfect for running although recent rain made the going a bit muddy underfoot in places.<\/p>\n

Starters: 145<\/p>\n

Finishers: 132<\/p>\n

Retired: 13<\/p>\n

First Man: Ben Hague; Rotherham Harriers and AC; M; 5:57:18<\/p>\n

First Lady: 6th overall; Sabrina Verjee; F; 7:47:41<\/p>\n

Mick Cochrane<\/strong>: 57th; Dark Peak Fell Runners; MV70; 11:06:56<\/p>\n

Steven Jones<\/strong>: 61st; Dark Peak Fell Runners; MV50; 11:25:39<\/p>\n

Stephanie Watts<\/strong>: 65th; Dark Peak Fell Runners; F; 11:35:53<\/p>\n

Last year Ben Hague of Rotherham Harriers and AC set a new course record by quite a margin. This year he beat his own record to bring the course record below 6 hours with an impressive time of 5 hours 57 minutes and 18 seconds. That represents an improvement of 3 minutes and 34 seconds.<\/p>\n

Mick Cochrane was the first MV70 finisher out of 10 starters (2 DNF and 8 finishers). This was despite having a calf injury early on in the race.<\/p>\n

This was the last race in the Runfurther 2019 series.<\/p>\n

Runfurther Championships 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

Results:<\/p>\n

1st Rory Harris; M; 3,987<\/p>\n

2nd Sabrina Verjee; F; 3,948<\/p>\n

17th Steven Jones<\/strong>; MV50; Dark Peak Fell Runners; 2,700 (3rd MV50)<\/p>\n

33rd Ian Challans<\/strong>; M; Dark Peak Fell Runners; 2,233 (only 3 races)<\/p>\n

108th John Vernon<\/strong>; MV60; Dark Peak Fell Runners; 1,388 (only 3 races)<\/p>\n

175th Stuart Walker<\/strong>; M; Dark Peak Fell Runners; 1,000 (only 1 race)<\/p>\n

Points are awarded for the best results for a short, medium and long race in the series plus a fourth result from any category. Steven Jones<\/strong> was third MV50. In the team results Dark Peak Fell Runners<\/strong> were sixth (Steven Jones<\/strong>; Ian Challans<\/strong>; John Vernon<\/strong> with 6,321 points in total).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Round Rotherham Run (Rowbotham’s Round Rotherham) Saturday 12 October 2019 50 miles (80.5 km); 2,625 feet (800 m) of ascent A trail run around Rotherham following the Rowbotham’s Round Rotherham footpath mostly over farmland and rural areas on sign-posted paths, bridleways and roads with very little ascent. The weather was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":772,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[157],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultrarunning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/772"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}