{"id":3820,"date":"2018-05-06T13:10:32","date_gmt":"2018-05-06T13:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/isleofwightroadrunners.net\/?p=3820"},"modified":"2018-05-07T10:00:58","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T10:00:58","slug":"three-forts-half-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/isleofwightroadrunners.net\/?p=3820","title":{"rendered":"Three Forts Half Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Having been the first man home in last year\u2019s marathon, our eminence of elevation, Stuart Backhouse was back this year to tackle the half.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Billed as \u201cThe Tough One\u201d this is no walk in the park. Over 1555ft of ascent faced Stu over the 13.1 miles of rough tracks peppered with tricky stiles.<\/p>\n

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Starting at the Recreational Ground in Hill Barn Lane Worthing, a 2 mile uphill start took Stu and the 332\u00a0<\/span>other competitors up to the first of the 3 forts, Cissbury Ring, an Iron Age Hill Fort with a rich history.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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It is here that the course splits from the marathon and takes a loop toward the Steyning Bowl and along the South Downs Way to the 2nd fort of Chanctonbury Ring.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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This hill top vantage point is steeped in mystery. Legend has it that the devil can be summoned here by running around the ring backwards 6 times! No time for that on Sunday though, as Stuart powered his way past the landmark and onward toward Findon before returning back to the Cissbury Ring and the relief of running 2 miles of descent back to Hill Barn Lane and the finish in a very tidy 1.38.50.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am pleased with that\u201d he tells me later in the day \u201cI\u2019ve still got London in my legs. It was very hot, my heart rate was going mad! But I managed some good mile splits. That last hill was a killer though\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And pleased he should be, that cracking time bagged him 6th place overall – Well done Stu!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Having been the first man home in last year\u2019s marathon, our eminence of elevation, Stuart Backhouse was back this year to tackle the half.\u00a0 Billed as \u201cThe Tough One\u201d this…<\/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-3820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/isleofwightroadrunners.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3820"}],"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=3820"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/isleofwightroadrunners.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3830,"href":"http:\/\/isleofwightroadrunners.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3820\/revisions\/3830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/isleofwightroadrunners.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/isleofwightroadrunners.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/isleofwightroadrunners.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}