{"id":459,"date":"2010-03-22T17:48:14","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T17:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=459"},"modified":"2012-04-07T05:29:08","modified_gmt":"2012-04-07T05:29:08","slug":"sport-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/family-and-friends\/sport-relief","title":{"rendered":"Sport Relief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent yesterday in an unfamiliar role; as support to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mysportrelief.com\/TeamPage.aspx?Lang=en-CA&amp;TSID=18478\" target=\"_blank\">The Swan Striders<\/a> (Sarah and Kirsty) as they took part in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportrelief.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sport Relief<\/a> mile at Druridge Bay Country Park.\u00a0 This is the first step in a grand plan that should eventually see them completing a marathon.\u00a0 As they only began their training regime a couple of weeks ago, and Kirsty tore a calf muscle last week, it was impossible to guess how they would perform.\u00a0 Needless to say, they both finished the mile (well, 1.4 miles&#8230;) still running, in a time of 16:47.\u00a0 I&#8217;m a proud husband \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>My own health improvements are taking the form of lots of walks (I&#8217;d love to run with the girls but one of my knees is very unstable).\u00a0 After the Alnwick Tourism Fair on Friday I walked the 4 miles up to Morpeth to collect Sarah&#8217;s car from the garage where it had been for it&#8217;s MOT.\u00a0 Against the prevailing wind I knocked 5 mins off the time it took in the other direction with the wind behind me.\u00a0 Progress&#8230;and now we&#8217;re going to set a series of targets for me, probably culminating in the Three Peaks.\u00a0 As ever there was a wildlife angle to my walk; although an unexpected one as I flushed a Woodcock from under a hedge near Hepscott.\u00a0 Yellowhammers, Skylarks\u00a0and Reed Buntings were singing and there&#8217;s a vibrant fresh feel to the countryside.\u00a0 Can you feel it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent yesterday in an unfamiliar role; as support to The Swan Striders (Sarah and Kirsty) as they took part in the Sport Relief mile at Druridge Bay Country Park.\u00a0 This is the first step in a grand plan that should eventually see them completing a marathon.\u00a0 As they only began their training regime a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[127,191,197,71,126],"class_list":["post-459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-and-friends","tag-reed-bunting","tag-skylark","tag-sport-relief","tag-woodcock","tag-yellowhammer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1521,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions\/1521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}