{"id":3447,"date":"2015-04-12T13:34:36","date_gmt":"2015-04-12T13:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=3447"},"modified":"2015-04-12T16:03:13","modified_gmt":"2015-04-12T16:03:13","slug":"marathon-season-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=3447","title":{"rendered":"Marathon season begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forest of Dean runners tackled two very different events over the past week. \u00a0In the first of these, <strong>Simon Dimmer<\/strong> completed his second Marathon des Sables in Morocco. \u00a0The <i><b>Marathon des Sables<\/b><\/i> (MdS, Marathon of the Sands, or Sahara Marathon)\u00a0is a six-day, 251\u00a0km (156\u00a0mi)\u00a0ultramarathon, which is the equivalent of six regular marathons. The longest single stage (2009) is 91\u00a0km (57\u00a0mi) long.\u00a0It is considered the toughest foot race on Earth.<span style=\"font-size: 10px;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>The first running took place\u00a0in 1986, making this the 30th event. \u00a0Simon completed the run in a total of 56h 02m o2s. \u00a0Other runners included explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes.<\/p>\n<p>Much nearer home, three FODAC athletes took part in the Brighton Marathon. \u00a0Julian Boon achieved his long-held ambition to run a marathon in under 3:15, finishing in 3:09:47. \u00a0Neville Turner competed in 4:22:12 and Sheralyn Turner in 5:45:31. \u00a0They are running to raise money for the Alzheimer&#8217;s Society.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3451\" style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Brighton.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3451\" class=\"wp-image-3451 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Brighton.jpg\" alt=\"Brighton\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Brighton.jpg 960w, http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Brighton-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3451\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sheralyn &amp; Neville Turner<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forest of Dean runners tackled two very different events over the past week. \u00a0In the first of these, Simon Dimmer completed his second Marathon des Sables in Morocco. \u00a0The Marathon des Sables (MdS, Marathon of the Sands, or Sahara Marathon)\u00a0is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=3447\">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-3447","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\/3447","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=3447"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3453,"href":"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3447\/revisions\/3453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}