{"id":15047,"date":"2015-10-18T23:18:21","date_gmt":"2015-10-18T22:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=15047"},"modified":"2015-10-18T23:18:21","modified_gmt":"2015-10-18T22:18:21","slug":"abingdon-marathon-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=15047","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon Marathon 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15101803.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Marathon 2015\" \/><br \/>\nThe 2015 Abingdon Marathon started at 9am this Sunday morning from Tilsley Park.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15101805.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Marathon 2015\" \/><br \/>\nThe man who went on to win had taken an early lead at Abingdon Market Place.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15101809.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Marathon 2015\" \/><br \/>\nThere was a mum bushing her buggy in an attempt to beat the record for a mum pushing a buggy in a marathon, and she smashed it with    3 hours and 17 minutes and 52 lullabies.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15101814.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Marathon 2015\" \/><br \/>\nPaul Fernandez, a well known Abingdon runner, came in second in the mens race, just 30 seconds outside his PB. Paul won the race in 2012.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15101819.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Marathon 2015\" \/><br \/>\nLots of other Abingdon runners did well. Athletics is very popular in these parts. There seem to be far more people running, throwing, and jumping than in years gone by &#8211; thanks to the excellent facility at Tilsley Park.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15101815.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Marathon 2015\" \/><br \/>\nThe winner of the womens race came from Winchester &#8211; down the A34.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15101822.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Marathon 2015\" \/><br \/>\nOfficials and members of the public cheered on the runners &#8230;  &#8220;Well Done &#8230; You are nearly there &#8230; Not long to go &#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It was another well organised race. MP3 players were banned this year on safety grounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2015 Abingdon Marathon started at 9am this Sunday morning from Tilsley Park. The man who went on to win had taken an early lead at Abingdon Market Place. There was a mum bushing her buggy in an attempt to beat the record for a mum pushing a buggy in a marathon, and she smashed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}