{"id":236,"date":"2013-10-13T20:29:10","date_gmt":"2013-10-13T20:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.couplands.co.uk\/wpsite\/?p=236"},"modified":"2017-06-02T13:32:53","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T13:32:53","slug":"national-road-relays-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.runwrecker.co.uk\/wpsite\/national-road-relays-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"National Road Relays 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It doesn&#8217;t seem long since the last National Road Relays, oh it isn&#8217;t due to weather they were run some 6 months ago, not a year ago. But irrelevant to timings and weather predicaments from last season, this years went ahead on time and as smoothly as can be expected. The rain may not have caused a cancellation this year, but it certainly showed it&#8217;s face a wet and muddy site had some parental taxi services concerned that they may not be able to leave the car park by the end of the day.<\/p>\n<p>On a personal note&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Robbie had an excellent run, picking up the rains from Jake Cvetkovic, who completed the first leg in 9th place with an excellent time of 12:57,\u00a0he pushed forward to complete the second leg in 13:14 seconds pulling AFD up in\u00a0to 5th position, the last leg was run in\u00a0the awesome time of 12:21 by Jack Boswell, this being the second fastest individual leg by an U15 boy on the day. Despite the excellent performances of all three runners it was not quite enough to get in to the medal standings, the team managing 4th place. Still 4th place in the National Road Relays is an excellent result in anyone&#8217;s book, and at an individual level the boys all had outstanding performances.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_237\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.runwrecker.co.uk\/wpsite\/?attachment_id=237\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-237\" class=\"wp-image-237 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.runwrecker.co.uk\/wpsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/5th-Place-National-Road-Relays-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.runwrecker.co.uk\/wpsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/5th-Place-National-Road-Relays-800x450.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.runwrecker.co.uk\/wpsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/5th-Place-National-Road-Relays-400x225.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.runwrecker.co.uk\/wpsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/5th-Place-National-Road-Relays-250x140.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.runwrecker.co.uk\/wpsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/5th-Place-National-Road-Relays-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.runwrecker.co.uk\/wpsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/5th-Place-National-Road-Relays.jpg 1840w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-237\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The last hill before the finishing straight, with Robbie working hard and chasing down the 4th place runner.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>A complete breakdown of AFD performances.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A good showing, in numbers, for AFD with all groups entering multiple teams.<\/p>\n<p>U13\u00a0Girls entered \u00a03 complete teams and placed 12th, 32nd &amp; 42nd. The fastest individual leg result by an AFD runner was set by\u00a0Daisy Corbett\u00a0in 15:02. (15th Individual)<\/p>\n<p>U13 Boys entered 3 complete teams and placed 12th, 19th and 23rd. The fastest individual leg result by an AFD runner was set by Marcus Shantry in 14:00. (5th\u00a0Individual)<\/p>\n<p>U15 Girls entered 3 complete teams and placed 5th, 19th and 32nd. The fastest individual leg result by an AFD runner was set by Niamh Brown in 13:57. (6th Individual)<\/p>\n<p>U15 Boys entered 2 complete teams and 1 incomplete team, they placed 4th, 30th. The fastest individual leg result by an AFD runner was set by Jack Boswell in 12:21. (2nd Individual)<\/p>\n<p>U17 Women entered 3 complete teams and placed 4th, 19th and 28th. The fastest individual leg result by an AFD runner was set by Eloise Milbourn in 14:08. (13th Individual)<\/p>\n<p>U17 Men entered\u00a01 complete team\u00a0which placed 2nd (our only team medal of the event) and an incomplete team. The fastest individual leg result by an AFD runner was set by\u00a0Jack Crabtree\u00a0in 11:38. (2nd Individual)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It doesn&#8217;t seem long since the last National Road Relays, oh it isn&#8217;t due to weather they were run some 6 months ago, not a year ago. But irrelevant to timings and weather predicaments from last season, this years went ahead on time and as smoothly as can be expected. \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.runwrecker.co.uk\/wpsite\/national-road-relays-2013\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runwrecker.co.uk\/wpsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runwrecker.co.uk\/wpsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runwrecker.co.uk\/wpsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runwrecker.co.uk\/wpsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runwrecker.co.uk\/wpsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.runwrecker.co.uk\/wpsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":665,"href":"https:\/\/www.runwrecker.co.uk\/wpsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions\/665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runwrecker.co.uk\/wpsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runwrecker.co.uk\/wpsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runwrecker.co.uk\/wpsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}