{"id":3096,"date":"2014-12-14T13:48:13","date_gmt":"2014-12-14T13:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=3096"},"modified":"2014-12-14T14:07:14","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T14:07:14","slug":"christmas-tree-race-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=3096","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Tree Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The weather was kinder than usual for the 2014 staging of Forest of Dean AC&#8217;s annual Christmas Tree Race. \u00a0This 5.5 mile route starts and ends at Ellwood football ground and includes mud and a few hills. \u00a080 runners and another 30 with dogs took on the challenge.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Xmas-tree-2014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3103\" alt=\"Xmas tree 2014\" src=\"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Xmas-tree-2014.jpg\" width=\"960\" height=\"717\" srcset=\"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Xmas-tree-2014.jpg 960w, http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Xmas-tree-2014-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>First to finish in the main race was Iain Porter of CLC Striders, in 40:12. \u00a0Second, repeating his position of 2013, was Rob Bovery of Tewkesbury AC in 41:05, and 3rd was FODAC&#8217;s Leyton Fleet in 41:36. \u00a0First lady was FODAC&#8217;s Ann Nixon, 5th overall in a new course best of 42:05, followed by Niki Morgan, Chepstow Harriers, in 44:20 and Victoria Baker, unattached, in 45:15.<\/p>\n<p>Age category winners were: MV40 Matthew Lawson, Chepstow Harriers; MV50 Andy Creber, Chepstow Harriers; MV60 Neil Grant, Chepstow Harriers; MV70 Shaun Emms, Hay Hotfooters; FV40 Sherryl Hall, FODAC; FV50 Fiona Turner, FODAC and FV60 Sue Ashton, Chepstow Harriers.<\/p>\n<p>First male cani-runner was Richard Ashton of Canicross Worcester, in 46:52. \u00a0First lady was Alex Day in 50:27.<\/p>\n<p>Results: \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Runners-results.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Runners<\/a> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Canis-results.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Canis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The weather was kinder than usual for the 2014 staging of Forest of Dean AC&#8217;s annual Christmas Tree Race. \u00a0This 5.5 mile route starts and ends at Ellwood football ground and includes mud and a few hills. \u00a080 runners and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=3096\">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-3096","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\/3096","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=3096"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3104,"href":"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3096\/revisions\/3104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}