{"id":574,"date":"2008-10-19T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-19T23:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/abingdon2007\/2008\/10\/19\/abingdon-marathon-2008\/"},"modified":"2008-10-19T23:59:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-19T23:59:00","slug":"abingdon-marathon-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=574","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon Marathon 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/08101951.jpg\" \/><br \/>The competitors left Tilsley park at 9 am on Sunday 19th October<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/08101954.jpg\" \/><br \/>About 4 miles into the race this chasing pack come through the Abbey gateway. The leader had gone through 30 seconds earlier. Number 1 in this group won 2 years ago but was disqualified because he had used a friends number. He got it right this time. He was to be third this year &#8211; but in a faster time<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/08101959.jpg\" \/><br \/>The course followed Saint Helens Wharf.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/08101976.jpg\" \/><br \/>This is one of the runners from Abingdon&#8217;s twin town, Argentan.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/08101960.jpg\" \/><br \/>The loudest cheer came from near the bottom of Saxton Road<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/08101975.jpg\" \/><br \/>which got the competitors smiling. After this point the competitors left Abingdon on a double circuit round Drayton, Sutton Courtney and Milton &#8230; returning to Preston Road and then out again&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Some time later&#8230;.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/08101966.jpg\" \/><br \/>The lead runner came back over the iron bridge. The time car showed  2 hours 18 minutes at this point and he was 3 minutes ahead of the rest of the field. I did try to get to Tilsley Park in time to see him finishing.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/08101967.jpg\" \/><br \/>But as with 2 years ago I only got there in time to see the second place competitor.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/08101968.jpg\" \/><br \/>The winner&#8217;s final time was 2 hours 32 minutes.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/08101969.jpg\" \/><br \/>This is the first of the Abingdon Amblers finishing in 7th place with a very good time. <br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/08101971.jpg\" \/><br \/>The leading female runner came in on 3 hours 3 minutes.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/08101974.jpg\" \/><br \/>Back in town the runners were still going through for quite some time. The route was through the underpass then up Bath Street.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The competitors left Tilsley park at 9 am on Sunday 19th OctoberAbout 4 miles into the race this chasing pack come through the Abbey gateway. The leader had gone through 30 seconds earlier. Number 1 in this group won 2 years ago but was disqualified because he had used a friends number. He got it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574","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=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}