{"id":378,"date":"2014-10-19T16:39:23","date_gmt":"2014-10-19T16:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christ-church-selly-park.org.uk\/blog\/?p=378"},"modified":"2014-10-19T16:41:15","modified_gmt":"2014-10-19T16:41:15","slug":"great-birmingham-run-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christ-church-selly-park.org.uk\/blog\/great-birmingham-run-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Birmingham Run 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left; width: 200px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/2014_great_birmingham_run_selly_park_road_high_five_600.jpg\" alt=\"High fives for a passing runner\" title=\"High fives for a passing runner\" width=\"200\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px 0px 0px 220px; text-align: left;\">\n<p>There was music, cheering, applause and food for runners and spectators as the Great Birmingham Run passed our front door on a sunny Sunday morning in October.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: left; width: 485px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; text-align: center;\">\n<div style=\"width: 495px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/2014_great_birmingham_run_selly_park_road_crowd_600.jpg\" alt=\"A huge crowd of runners coming down Selly Park Road\" title=\"A huge crowd of runners coming down Selly Park Road\" width=\"485\"><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">What a crowd: The view from Pershore Road as the faster runners headed out through Selly Park<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 495px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/2014_great_birmingham_run_selly_park_road_spectators_600.jpg\" alt=\"Spectators at the bottom of Selly Park Road\" title=\"Spectators at the bottom of Selly Park Road\" width=\"485\"><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">As well as supporting the runners many of us were trying to spot friends in the crowd<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 495px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/2014_great_birmingham_run_christ_church_andy_approach_600.jpg\" alt=\"A runner approaching Christ Church\" title=\"A runner approaching Christ Church\" width=\"485\"><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">After completing the outward leg through Stirchley and Bournville the runners returned past Christ Church<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 495px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/2014_great_birmingham_run_christ_church_food_for_runner_1_600.jpg\" alt=\"A runner takes a snack\" title=\"A runner takes a snack\" width=\"485\"><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A runner takes a snack: there were plenty more for spectators and stewards<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 495px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/2014_great_birmingham_run_christ_church_band_600.jpg\" alt=\"A jazz band\" title=\"A jazz band playing outside Christ Church\" width=\"485\"><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">There was a jazz band outside Christ Church, and we provided music at other points along Pershore Road<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- Right hand column --><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: left; width: 250px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px; text-align: center;\">\n<div style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/2014_great_birmingham_run_christ_church_andy_run_past_400.jpg\" alt=\"Running past Christ Church\" title=\"Running past Christ Church\" width=\"250\"><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Running past Christ Church<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/2014_great_birmingham_run_christ_church_andy_finished_400.jpg\" alt=\"A runner raising his hands after finishing the race\" title=\"Finished!\" width=\"250\"><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Finished!<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/2014_great_birmingham_run_christ_church_food_for_runner_3_400.jpg\" alt=\"Food for a runner\" title=\"Food for a runner\" width=\"250\"><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Food for a runner<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/2014_great_birmingham_run_christ_church_angel_400.jpg\" alt=\"An angel (in costume) passing Christ Church\" title=\"An angel not in disguise\" width=\"250\"><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">An angel, not in disguise<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"boxout border\" style=\"margin: 10px 0px 10px 0px; padding: 5px; text-align: center;\">\n<p><em>There&#8217;s more about our support for this event over the years on our <a href=\"..\/birmingham_half_marathon.html\" title=\"Great Birmingham Run page\"><b>Great Birmingham Run<\/b><\/a> page.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was music, cheering, applause and food for runners and spectators as the Great Birmingham Run passed our front door on a sunny Sunday morning in October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christ-church-selly-park.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christ-church-selly-park.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christ-church-selly-park.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christ-church-selly-park.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christ-church-selly-park.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.christ-church-selly-park.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":392,"href":"https:\/\/www.christ-church-selly-park.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions\/392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christ-church-selly-park.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christ-church-selly-park.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christ-church-selly-park.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}