{"id":4884,"date":"2011-10-16T18:45:34","date_gmt":"2011-10-16T17:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=4884"},"modified":"2011-10-16T18:45:34","modified_gmt":"2011-10-16T17:45:34","slug":"abingdon-marathon-following-the-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=4884","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon Marathon &#8211; the leading men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11101602.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Marathon - Leading Men\" \/><br \/>\n10 seconds into the race and last years winner Colin Paton had the lead.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11101607.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Marathon - Leading Men\" \/><br \/>\nAt the Abbey Gateway, after about five miles, there was a leading group of three &#8230; 646: James Pearson from Beverley AC, 464: Stephen Male from Oxford City AC, and 89: James Bolton of Woodstock Harriers.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11101655.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Marathon - Leading Men\" \/><br \/>\nAt about the half way point 464 and 646 had built up a lead over the following runners.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11101639.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Marathon - Leading Men\" \/><br \/>\n24 miles into the race 464 and 646 were still running together up West St Helen Street.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11101641.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Marathon - Leading Men\" \/><br \/>\nThey were still running together back onto the Tilsley Park athletic track, but then Stephen Male pulled away, and finished with 2 hrs 31.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11101643.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Marathon - Leading Men\" \/><br \/>\nThe first Abingdon Amblers AC athlete to cross the line had an amazing time of 2 hrs 36.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11101629.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Marathon - Leading Men\" \/><br \/>\nHere he is at the halfway point: Paul Fernandez. I think he finished third but am a bit worried I missed somebody in the 5 minute gap between 2nd and 3rd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10 seconds into the race and last years winner Colin Paton had the lead. At the Abbey Gateway, after about five miles, there was a leading group of three &#8230; 646: James Pearson from Beverley AC, 464: Stephen Male from Oxford City AC, and 89: James Bolton of Woodstock Harriers. At about the half way [&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-4884","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\/4884","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=4884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}