{"id":718,"date":"2011-03-21T11:07:38","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T11:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/?p=718"},"modified":"2011-03-21T11:09:27","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T11:09:27","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/718","title":{"rendered":"Fundraising for Christchurch &#8211; Hilary Bloor runs the Marathon des Sables"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>On April 3rd I will start the Marathon des Sables (MdS) which is regarded by many as the toughest footrace on Earth! Although l have done lots of long distance events before, this will be a big, big challenge for me. I&#39;ve not been able to run consistently for years and its only preparing for this that l&#39;ve been able to get the miles in.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>The MdS covers 250km over 7 days on foot in the heat of the Sahara (could be as hot as 50C) and is totally self-supported. I have to carry all my own food, sleeping kit and cooking gear for the whole 7 days, weighing about 9kg (or more!). It will be very hard for me and l will suffer big time!<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>My sister, Vivien and her family and many of my friends lost their homes during the recent earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand. I don&#39;t normally ask for sponsorship for these events, as l do them for pleasure. But on this occasion l am. Please support me as best you can to help raise money for the British Red Cross\/NZ Appeal. The people of Christchurch need all the help they can get.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginmoneygiving.com\/HilaryBloor\">virginmoneygiving.com<\/a><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Many thanks. Hilary<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 3rd I will start the Marathon des Sables (MdS) which is regarded by many as the toughest footrace on Earth! Although l have done lots of long distance events before, this will be a big, big challenge for me. I&#39;ve not been able to run consistently for years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718","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\/73"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}