{"id":3136,"date":"2018-04-22T05:32:38","date_gmt":"2018-04-22T05:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/?p=3136"},"modified":"2018-04-22T05:32:38","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T05:32:38","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/3136","title":{"rendered":"Kielder Ultra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kielder Ultra<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Saturday 7 April 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The following details were provided by John Bottomley:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Kielder Ultra<\/p>\n<p>62miles (100km), 5,866&#8242; (1,788m)<\/p>\n<p>Starters: 40<\/p>\n<p>Finshers: 30<\/p>\n<p>Retired: 10<\/p>\n<p>First Man: Adam Potter, M40 (??) 9hr 33<\/p>\n<p>First Lady: Carol Morgan, F40 (??) 10hr 24<\/p>\n<p><strong>John Bottomley <\/strong>2nd, M, DPFR, 9hr 50<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chris Duffy<\/strong> 9th, M, DPFR, 11hr 23 <\/p>\n<p>Although the day started with a cloudless sky and early morning sun\/temperature inversion mist, it soon clouded over &amp; rained to varying degrees for the rest of the day. This race was 2 x 31 mile loops &amp; the 1st time I had done such a race &#8211; would I find it hard to do lap 2 in terms of motivation needed to leave the finish point again knowing exactly what I would be running along?<\/p>\n<p>In the event although I knew it would be another 4.5hrs in the rain &amp; at times lots of mud, it didn&#8217;t seem odd to be leaving the finish again.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike other races there was nothing exciting about the CP food (or the race route for that matter!) and as it was wet &amp; cold, no-one stayed around afterwards so the finish was somewhat of a damb squib too.<\/p>\n<p>Yes the course is a fast course but I think that&#8217;s the only merit of this whole event.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kielder Ultra Saturday 7 April 2018 The following details were provided by John Bottomley: &#8220;Kielder Ultra 62miles (100km), 5,866&#8242; (1,788m) Starters: 40 Finshers: 30 Retired: 10 First Man: Adam Potter, M40 (??) 9hr 33 First Lady: Carol Morgan, F40 (??) 10hr 24 John Bottomley 2nd, M, DPFR, 9hr 50 Chris [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":772,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[157],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultrarunning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/772"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}