{"id":2042,"date":"2013-12-09T17:34:07","date_gmt":"2013-12-09T17:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2042"},"modified":"2013-12-09T17:35:21","modified_gmt":"2013-12-09T17:35:21","slug":"gwent-league-x-country-bath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2042","title":{"rendered":"Gwent League X-Country: Bath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"id_52a5fd243b1364453600036\">It was\u00a0a beautiful day in the Forest.\u00a0 <strong>Daren Smith<\/strong>, <strong>James Dobbing<\/strong>, <strong>Alan Robertson<\/strong> &amp; myself (<strong>Jules Boon<\/strong>) met up at 5 Acres for our day trip to Bath.\u00a0 As we came down the hill into Chepstow the sky was black &amp; the rain began to fall.\u00a0 Daren &amp; I looked at each other with a feeling of deja vu as the spectre of Pontypool loomed before us.\u00a0 Fortunately it was just a passing shower &amp; we crossed the Severn Bridge in glorious sunshine again.\u00a0 Alan helped navigate us to the University where we met up with <strong>Scott Berry<\/strong> &amp; then <strong>Richard Pegler<\/strong>.\u00a0 A quick coffee, registration, team photos &amp; then we were off fighting our way through, elbows flailing everywhere to the sound of 400 men charging downhill.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Bath-XC.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2043\" alt=\"Bath XC\" src=\"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Bath-XC.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Bath-XC.jpg 640w, http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Bath-XC-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>James took the FoDAC lead early on and managed to hold on till the end finishing 183rd.\u00a0 I was second in 221st; hot on my heels was Daren (229th), then Rich (261st), Scott (305th) &amp; new grandad Alan (330th).\u00a0 Conditions were good: cool &amp; firm underfoot.\u00a0 We all said what a good course it was though we were surprised by how much climbing they&#8217;d managed to squeeze out of one field.\u00a0 Thanks to <strong>Vanessa Pegler-Marfell<\/strong> for being top FoDAC cheerleader &amp; photographer.\u00a0 Well done guys great effort.\u00a0 Looking forward to doing it all again in Feb at Brecon when hopefully some more of you champions will join us in the Dursley Dozen warm-up race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was\u00a0a beautiful day in the Forest.\u00a0 Daren Smith, James Dobbing, Alan Robertson &amp; myself (Jules Boon) met up at 5 Acres for our day trip to Bath.\u00a0 As we came down the hill into Chepstow the sky was black &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2042\">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-2042","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\/2042","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=2042"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2045,"href":"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2042\/revisions\/2045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}