{"id":9939,"date":"2013-10-20T17:34:20","date_gmt":"2013-10-20T16:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=9939"},"modified":"2013-10-20T17:34:20","modified_gmt":"2013-10-20T16:34:20","slug":"abingdon-marathon-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=9939","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon Marathon 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThere were 747 runners started in the Abingdon Marathon at 9am this morning. The course has not changed much in recent years.
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\nIt starts at Tilsley Park. Goes to Radley, and then Abingdon Town Centre, then twice round a circuit of South Abingdon, Drayton, Milton, and Sutton Courtenay, before returning to Tilsley Park.
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\nRefreshments were provided for spectators, at the bottom of Preston Road, by the supporters of one runner, running for the charity Bliss<\/a> – ‘working to provide the best possible care and support for all premature and sick babies and their families.’
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\nThere were lots of ways to encourage the runners.
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\nHooters and clapping,
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\nand notices saying ‘Come on Daddy.’
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\nThe leading two runners , 473 Ben Fish, from Blackburn Harriers,
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\n and 1037, Matthew Bennett from Southampton AC, opened up quite a gap on the rest of the field
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\nComing in on 2:26:53 and 2:26:59.
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\nFirst lady runner I saw running in was, 210, Lucy Hodgson from Newquay Road Runners, but I’ll have to check that.<\/p>\n

More pictures on the Abingdon Blog Facebook<\/a> . Congratulations to the organisers and all the marshalls for an excellent event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There were 747 runners started in the Abingdon Marathon at 9am this morning. The course has not changed much in recent years. It starts at Tilsley Park. Goes to Radley, and then Abingdon Town Centre, then twice round a circuit of South Abingdon, Drayton, Milton, and Sutton Courtenay, before returning to Tilsley Park. Refreshments were […]<\/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-9939","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\/9939","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=9939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}