{"id":34437,"date":"2025-10-19T17:50:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T16:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=34437"},"modified":"2025-10-19T17:50:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T16:50:16","slug":"abingdon-marathon-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=34437","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon Marathon 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Start of Abingdon Marathon 2025\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aSTCs9nIAIE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Abingdon Marathon took place this morning, starting at 9am . (The four-minute video above shows the runners leaving Tilsley Park at the start.)<\/p>\n<p>The overall winner, Tom Hollis, competed in the 40+ age group. Many of the front-runners wore England vests, representing the country\u2019s leading athletes across age categories from 35+ to 75+. This year, the Abingdon Marathon joined the Abbott World Marathon Majors Age Group World Rankings as a qualifying race.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025101932a.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe weather was cool, cloudy, with occasional showers. After about four miles, the route brought runners through the Market Place.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025101975.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThis was one of the areas where there was a lot of support.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025101976.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe course took runners down East St Helen Street,<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025101977.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nalong St Helen\u2019s Wharf,<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025101978.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nover the Iron Bridge, and out on a loop of South Abingdon and the surrounding villages, which runners completed twice before heading back up Bath Street to Tilsley Park .<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025101980.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nBack on the Market Place, The Town Crier was still on hand to ring through the last few runners.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025101981.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nStewards gave a huge cheer to the final runner &#8211; who was moving twice as fast as the other last runners. Possibly she\u2019d started late.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025101982.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThere was a final blast on a traffic-cone.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025101983.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nI revisited the marathon in time to see some of the sub-four-hour finishers in Tilsley Park.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025101985.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nAnother well organised event, made special by the enthusiastic support and cheerful volunteers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Abingdon Marathon took place this morning, starting at 9am . (The four-minute video above shows the runners leaving Tilsley Park at the start.) The overall winner, Tom Hollis, competed in the 40+ age group. Many of the front-runners wore England vests, representing the country\u2019s leading athletes across age categories from 35+ to 75+. 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