{"id":7667,"date":"2021-03-14T07:21:55","date_gmt":"2021-03-14T07:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=7667"},"modified":"2021-03-14T07:21:55","modified_gmt":"2021-03-14T07:21:55","slug":"chrissie-wellington-to-race-her-first-ultra-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=7667","title":{"rendered":"Chrissie Wellington to race her first ultra marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>4x Kona champ Chrissie Wellington has announced she will be\u00a0running Heineken Race to the Tower, a double marathon along the Cotswolds Way, on 10th\u00a0June.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>    Advertisement<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m really excited about this new adventure, but I have to admit to being slightly daunted too. The\u00a0HeinekenRace to the Tower is a huge, huge challenge for me,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cAn ultra is something I said I would never do and I\u2019m quite worried that I may not even finish. I did run the London Marathon in April, which was a fantastic experience and I really enjoyed having a sporting goal again \u2013 even if I\u2019m not as fast as I used to be. I\u2019m still not sure what came over me, but I decided to Google ultra races soon after crossing the finish line. I blame post marathon delirium.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div    >\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cIn terms of race strategy I don\u2019t really know what to expect but I have asked a few, experienced ultra runners for their advice, and the consensus seems to be: take a slower pace, fuel relatively early on and walk the hills. And, most importantly, enjoy it!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    Advertisement<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>The\u00a0\u00a0Heineken\u00a0Race to the Tower is a\u00a0double marathon that runs from Gloucestershire to Worcestershire. The route takes in some quintessentially English villages and landmarks, including\u00a0Winchcombe, Painswick and\u00a0Sudeley Castle, before finishing at Broadway Tower in Worcestershire.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tClick Here: <a href='https:\/\/www.ifootballshop.com\/liverpool-424.html' title='liverpool mens jersey'>liverpool mens jersey<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4x Kona champ Chrissie Wellington has announced she will be\u00a0running Heineken Race to the Tower, a double marathon along the Cotswolds Way, on 10th\u00a0June. Advertisement \u201cI\u2019m really excited about this new adventure, but I have to admit to being slightly daunted too. The\u00a0HeinekenRace to the Tower is a huge, huge challenge for me,\u201d she says&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}