{"id":19392,"date":"2017-10-22T22:34:05","date_gmt":"2017-10-22T21:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=19392"},"modified":"2017-10-22T22:34:05","modified_gmt":"2017-10-22T21:34:05","slug":"abingdon-marathon-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=19392","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon Marathon 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/2017102204.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Marathon\" \/><br \/>\nOver 750 runners started the Abingdon Marathon at 9am this morning from Tilsley Park.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/2017102206.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Marathon\" \/><br \/>\n5 miles into the race the field of runners crossed Abingdon Market Place. They came via Radley Lakes, where volunteers had cleared the track in places from fallen trees after Storm Brian.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/2017102207.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Marathon\" \/><br \/>\nThe mum who beat the marathon record for a mum pushing a buggy in 2015, has had a second child, and was back attempting to beat the record for a double buggy Marathon run.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/2017102209.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Marathon\" \/><br \/>\nA lot of volunteers help at the marathon. They were from many different Abingdon organisations. Cadets were giving out water near the sailing club nearly 6 miles into the race.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/2017102210.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Marathon\" \/><br \/>\nAt the corner of Lambrick Way and Peep-O-Day Lane there was a gathering of spectators and marshalls. The course then went twice round by Lambrick Way, up through Drayton, Milton and Sutton Courtenay then back down Peep-o-Day Lane.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/2017102212a.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Marathon\" \/><br \/>\nThe race was won by Tom Charles, of&nbsp; Trafford Athletic Club in two hours 29 minutes and 29 seconds. Two weeks ago Tom finished second in the York Marathon in two hours 25 minutes.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/2017102213.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Marathon\" \/><br \/>\nHilary Mott, from Cheltenham, was the first woman to finish in a time of two hours 49 minutes and 50 seconds.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/2017102212c.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Marathon\" \/><br \/>\nThe first two Abingdon Athletic Club runners home were Peter Akrill<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/2017102213a.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Marathon\" \/><br \/>\nand Thomas Coney. Both were inside 3 hours.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/2017102215.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Marathon\" \/><br \/>\nOut on the course people were running for the next couple of hours, encouraged by a lot of locals.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/2017102216.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Marathon\" \/><br \/>\nMarshalls did their best to keep the traffic flowing, without stopping runners, in the two of three places where runners had to cross busy roads.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/2017102214.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Marathon\" \/><br \/>\nMore pictures on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pg\/AbingdonBlog\/photos\/?tab=album&amp;album_id=1583413765056507\">Abingdon Blog Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 750 runners started the Abingdon Marathon at 9am this morning from Tilsley Park. 5 miles into the race the field of runners crossed Abingdon Market Place. They came via Radley Lakes, where volunteers had cleared the track in places from fallen trees after Storm Brian. The mum who beat the marathon record for a [&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-19392","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\/19392","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=19392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}