{"id":3477,"date":"2018-03-13T09:45:30","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T09:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/isleofwightroadrunners.net\/?p=3477"},"modified":"2018-03-13T09:45:30","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T09:45:30","slug":"frankfurt-half-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/isleofwightroadrunners.net\/?p=3477","title":{"rendered":"Frankfurt Half Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A seamlessly organised event greeted Roadrunners Harry Vernon and Margaret Niland-Murphy as they took on the Frankfurt Half Marathon on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/isleofwightroadrunners.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/7E89D65F-24E1-4D1A-B4BB-D648F549D28F.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3478\" src=\"http:\/\/isleofwightroadrunners.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/7E89D65F-24E1-4D1A-B4BB-D648F549D28F.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"718\" height=\"451\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hosted by Frankfurt\u2019s Spiridon Running Club, this is Germany\u2019s largest amateur organised event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was first class. The day went smoothly and was relaxing and enjoyable\u201d said Harry<\/p>\n<p>Fast and flat the 13.1 mile journey began outside the iconic Eintracht Football Stadium, the Commerzbank Arena. It then followed the course of the River Main before progressing through some woodland area to the west of the city before returning to the 50000 capacity stadium for a glory finish.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/isleofwightroadrunners.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/22AB39D5-B488-4D4D-AFA6-F112E4D1A7AA.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3481\" src=\"http:\/\/isleofwightroadrunners.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/22AB39D5-B488-4D4D-AFA6-F112E4D1A7AA.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"633\" height=\"473\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/isleofwightroadrunners.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/1BD7C277-9E02-43B3-A79D-935678815637.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3482\" src=\"http:\/\/isleofwightroadrunners.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/1BD7C277-9E02-43B3-A79D-935678815637.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"2048\" srcset=\"http:\/\/isleofwightroadrunners.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/1BD7C277-9E02-43B3-A79D-935678815637.jpeg 2048w, http:\/\/isleofwightroadrunners.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/1BD7C277-9E02-43B3-A79D-935678815637-768x768.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/isleofwightroadrunners.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/D7A35A6D-D6EA-4B51-8F0D-43306C4FAEB3.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3480\" src=\"http:\/\/isleofwightroadrunners.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/D7A35A6D-D6EA-4B51-8F0D-43306C4FAEB3.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"669\" height=\"498\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Margaret was first back to the stadium in a speedy 1.47.50 coming 15th in her V50 age category and was the first British lady home. Harry was not too far behind in 1.56.48. A relief for him as the race was his first long run since tearing his calf at New Year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel like I\u2019m back on it now\u201d he said<\/p>\n<p>No medals were on offer for the finishers, but there was free beer given out to our thirsty runners &#8211; Gut Laufen Harry and Mags! Prost!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/isleofwightroadrunners.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/BBD2699A-5546-4E3B-8267-B8C94794A831.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3479\" src=\"http:\/\/isleofwightroadrunners.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/BBD2699A-5546-4E3B-8267-B8C94794A831.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"468\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A seamlessly organised event greeted Roadrunners Harry Vernon and Margaret Niland-Murphy as they took on the Frankfurt Half Marathon on Sunday. Hosted by Frankfurt\u2019s Spiridon Running Club, this is Germany\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/isleofwightroadrunners.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3477"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/isleofwightroadrunners.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/isleofwightroadrunners.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/isleofwightroadrunners.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/isleofwightroadrunners.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/isleofwightroadrunners.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3483,"href":"http:\/\/isleofwightroadrunners.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3477\/revisions\/3483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/isleofwightroadrunners.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/isleofwightroadrunners.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/isleofwightroadrunners.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}