{"id":1752,"date":"2013-09-01T15:47:06","date_gmt":"2013-09-01T15:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1752"},"modified":"2013-09-05T08:38:54","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T08:38:54","slug":"great-oaks-gallop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1752","title":{"rendered":"Great Oaks Gallop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s Great Oaks Gallop, raising funds for the Coleford hospice, was held over a new course in Yorkley.\u00a0 The weather was excellent for running with sun, a cool breeze and dry conditions under foot.\u00a0 The course was gently undulating, with one medium climb, over 10k of trail and track.<br \/>\nFirst finisher was unattached <strong>John George<\/strong> in 37:46, followed by <strong>Peter Woodward<\/strong> (38:56) and <strong>Daren Smith<\/strong> (39:28) both of Forest of Dean AC.\u00a0 First female was <strong>Niki Morgan<\/strong> of Chepstow Harriers in 43:06, followed by <strong>Helen Gabriel<\/strong>, unattached (48:05) and <strong>Shirley Albrow<\/strong>, Forest of Dean (52:01).\u00a0 Category winners were <strong>Leyton Fleet<\/strong>, Forest of Dean\u00a0(MV40); <strong>Richard Gilbert<\/strong>, Almost Athletes\u00a0(MV50); <strong>Gareth Jones<\/strong>, Newport Harriers\u00a0(MV60), <strong>Syd Wheeler<\/strong>, Chepstow Harriers (MV70); <strong>Liz Usedon<\/strong>, Forest of Dean (FV40) and <strong>Jackie Green<\/strong>, Forest of Dean (FV50).<br \/>\nThe race gave an opportunity to present trophies to the first male and female finishers from Forest of Dean AC.\u00a0 The one presented to the first lady\u00a0is new and is\u00a0given in celebration of the life of a former chair of the club, <strong>Carol Jones<\/strong>, who sadly died recently.\u00a0 The recipient was <strong>Shirley Albrow<\/strong>.\u00a0 The men&#8217;s trophy used to be presented to the winner of the Yorkley Dash, an annual race which ceased some years ago.\u00a0 The winner was <strong>Peter Woodward<\/strong>.<br \/>\nThe\u00a0race for canicrossers was by <strong>Kim Mazzucca\u00a0<\/strong>(39:06), followed by\u00a0<strong>Briar Morris<\/strong> (53:54), and <strong>Kath Nichol<\/strong> (54:05).<br \/>\nAll finishers received a medal and there was tea and cake for everyone.<\/p>\n<p>Results:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Seniors-GOG-2013.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"> Seniors<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Canis-GOG-2013.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Canis<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Juniors-GOG-2013.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Juniors<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s Great Oaks Gallop, raising funds for the Coleford hospice, was held over a new course in Yorkley.\u00a0 The weather was excellent for running with sun, a cool breeze and dry conditions under foot.\u00a0 The course was gently undulating, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1752\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1752"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1773,"href":"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752\/revisions\/1773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}