{"id":2294,"date":"2015-03-30T18:26:04","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T18:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/?p=2294"},"modified":"2015-03-30T18:26:04","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T18:26:04","slug":"spring-marathon-fever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/?p=2294","title":{"rendered":"Spring Marathon Fever!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tGo on any journey, virtually any time of day & it\u2019s likely that you will see people running. Last year\u2019s Sport England Active People survey identified that 2.1 million people, 5% of the population, ran at least once a week, an increase of 2% since 2005. Another way the surge in running\u2019s popularity shows itself is in the growth of marathons, particularly city marathons, and the number of people who want to test themselves over the classic distance. The London Marathon needs no introduction but this spring as many as 18 runners from South Derbyshire Road Runners will be tackling the 26.2 miles in a wide variety of locations. Where they\u2019ll be running, what their aims & aspirations are & who they are running for is set out below:
\nSam & Mark Skidmore are both making their marathon debuts at the Manchester Marathon on 19th April. Both will be aiming just to finish but Sam will be happy with anywhere around 4 hours while Mark’s target is a more conservative under 5 hours
\nNikki Reeves is running the London Marathon, her third marathon, on 26th<\/sup> April.\u00a0 Aiming, if all goes well, for 3:30 but definitely under 3:45. Planning on running 12 marathons next year for cancer and arthritis charities.
\nJenny Laing is also running the London Marathon, her 14th marathon. She is aiming for 3:15 but be relatively happy with sub 3:30 after having her first child 8 months earlier.
\nTracey Glover & son, Christian, are both running & making their marathon debuts in the Manchester Marathon. Tracey is looking to finish around 3.45, while Christian is hopeful of finishing around 3hrs.
\nChristina Cooper & Andy Hawtin are both running the London Marathon, 6 days before they get married. Christina, who is making her marathon debut, is aiming for 3.15 while Andy will be running his second marathon and aiming for 2.55.
\nMark Coombes is also running the London Marathon, which will be his sixth over the classic distance. Mark is hoping for sub 3:30 and reckons, tongue firmly in his cheek, that he only runs because his wife tells him not to.
\nCarolyn Ife is making her marathon debut at Stratford Shakespeare Marathon on 26 April and is aiming for 5 hours. She\u2019s doing it because she was challenged to run a marathon before she turned 50. She\u2019ll be 48 on race day.
\nKelly Joanne Knight is running the London Marathon and is aiming to run anything under 3:42. It’s Kelly\u2019s third marathon although she\u2019s trained for four-damn after, frustratingly, the Stratford Shakespeare Marathon was cancelled in 2013 because of bad weather. Running for Macmillan and Help for Heroes.
\nFelicity Towns & Kerry Jackson are both running the Stratford Shakespeare Marathon primarily to celebrate Kerry’s 40th<\/sup> birthday and for charity. For Felicity it will be her 3rd<\/sup> marathon while Kerry will be making her debut. Kerry is running for the British Heart Foundation while Felicity is still to sort out the charity she\u2019ll be running for.
\nJenny Tattersall is doing the London Marathon, her first marathon. Jenny believes her big success was getting in the race through the ballot on her first application.\u00a0 Jenny is running for the Anthony Nolan charity & is aiming for 4:20ish. Jenny Tattersall’s fundraising page is\u00a0www.virginmoneygiving.com\/JennyTattersall<\/a>
\nGary Price is running the London Marathon for the 3rd<\/sup> time and is raising money for Cancer Research UK. This will be Gary\u2019s 5th<\/sup> marathon in the last 21\/2 years. Gary is aiming for under 3:50. Gary Price is fundraising for Cancer Research UK\u00a0
Www.justgiving.com\/gary-price5<\/a>
\nTony Phillips is tackling the iconic Boston Marathon on 20th April and is by some distance the Club\u2019s most experienced marathoner running a spring marathon. \u00a0After running the \u2018Two Oceans\u2019 race in South Africa in 2000 Tony had a break from marathons until he qualified for Boston after running 3hrs 56mins in Edinburgh. Boston will be Tony\u2019s 74th marathon.
\nHeidi Marie Elliott\u2019s marathon is somewhat different in that it\u2019s tagged on to the end of a 2.4 mile swim & 112 mile bike ride in the Outlaw Ironman. Heidi\u2019s target for the run is sub 6.30 although her real target is to make it to the run as the bike is her weakest discipline. This will be Heidi\u2019s second marathon. Understandably, at present, complains of being constantly tired & hungry.
\nLastly, not quite a marathon but certainly the furthest journey is Wayne Kelleher’s running of the Sydney Half Marathon on Sunday 17th May, his first ever half abroad, which he’s aiming to complete in 1:50.
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Go on any journey, virtually any time of day & it\u2019s likely that you will see people running. Last year\u2019s Sport England Active People survey identified that 2.1 million people, 5% of the population, ran at least once a week, an increase of 2% since 2005.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","no-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdrr.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}