{"id":8118,"date":"2023-09-12T22:50:38","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T22:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/isleofwightroadrunners.net\/?p=8118"},"modified":"2023-09-12T22:52:31","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T22:52:31","slug":"new-forest-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/isleofwightroadrunners.net\/?p=8118","title":{"rendered":"NEW FOREST HALF MARATHON"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s such a well run event with choice of Marathon \/ Half \/ 10k \/ 5k races plus a woodland walk on offer and plenty for families to do in the race village. A bit of patience and better organisation is needed however, when leaving the car park!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"2048\" src=\"https:\/\/isleofwightroadrunners.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/NF_Team1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8119\" srcset=\"https:\/\/isleofwightroadrunners.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/NF_Team1.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/isleofwightroadrunners.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/NF_Team1-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/isleofwightroadrunners.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/NF_Team1-1536x1536.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After the usual enthusiastic warm up from the guys on the stage we set off over the start line in timed groups from around 10.20am &#8211; the marathoners had started at 9.30am.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was warm and humid for the first 7 to 10k and many of the runners started off at a sensible pace in the heat. The organisers had brought in extra water and hydration in anticipation of a hot day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After around the halfway mark the cooling rain came making the course a little muddy in places but the slight drop in temperature was very welcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The New Forest route is beautiful whatever the weather and the terrain is fairly flat and on main forest paths and closed roads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First home for the red, white and blue was Carolyn herself, just under the 2 hour mark, 7 minutes better than her previous best around the forest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our flying Veteran Lucy enjoyed her day, &#8220;Enjoyed it, the forest was looking beautiful, the rain kept us cool.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"828\" height=\"1104\" src=\"https:\/\/isleofwightroadrunners.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/NF_Team2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/isleofwightroadrunners.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/NF_Team2.jpg 828w, https:\/\/isleofwightroadrunners.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/NF_Team2-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 828px) 100vw, 828px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Also enjoying the trip around the New Forest was Jane Andrew. &#8220;We Loved it. Kate, Karen and I ran together. The first three miles were hot and humid but then, thankfully the rain arrived . It poured for the following ten miles which ensured it was a better temperature.<br>Beautiful running through the trees, plenty of horses.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jane, Kate and Karen finished together in 02:11:01.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well done to our magnificent 7 ladies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Results:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>Carolyn Littleton<\/td><td>01:59:23<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Jane Andrew<\/td><td>02:11:01<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Karen Phillips<\/td><td>02:11:01<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Kate Paul<\/td><td>02:11:01<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Dawn Moses<\/td><td>02:13:11<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Sue Hunter<\/td><td>02:30:48<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Lucy DeVille<\/td><td>02:36:07<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s such a well run event with choice of Marathon \/ Half \/ 10k \/ 5k races plus a woodland walk on offer and plenty for families to do in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":8122,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/isleofwightroadrunners.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/isleofwightroadrunners.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/isleofwightroadrunners.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isleofwightroadrunners.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isleofwightroadrunners.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8118"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/isleofwightroadrunners.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8124,"href":"https:\/\/isleofwightroadrunners.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8118\/revisions\/8124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isleofwightroadrunners.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/isleofwightroadrunners.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isleofwightroadrunners.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isleofwightroadrunners.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}