{"id":5203,"date":"2018-06-18T09:04:05","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T09:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/?p=5203"},"modified":"2023-06-13T08:06:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T08:06:00","slug":"race-against-a-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/2018\/06\/race-against-a-train\/","title":{"rendered":"Race Against A Train!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5204\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/race-the-train-pic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5204\" class=\"wp-image-5204 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/race-the-train-pic-1024x727.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"454\" srcset=\"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/race-the-train-pic-1024x727.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/race-the-train-pic-300x213.jpg 300w, http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/race-the-train-pic-768x545.jpg 768w, http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/race-the-train-pic-150x106.jpg 150w, http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/race-the-train-pic-400x284.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5204\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jon Brown (manager of Golden Lion), Sarah Fortune (Shropshire Council Outdoor Partnerships Team) and Charlotte Holden (Holdens Brewery)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>There&#8217;s a new running event where you can have a go racing a stream train! Shropshire Council, StuWeb Events and Severn Valley Railway are organising the race called \u2018Steaming down the Valley\u2019 on the evening of Thursday 28th June. The off-road route will follow the Severn Way between Severn Valley Country Park and Arley Station, a distance of around 3.5 miles.<\/p>\n<p>The Golden Lion pub in Bridgnorth, owned and managed by Holdens Brewery, has sponsored the new running event meaning that runners can enjoy a refreshing pint of Holdens Golden Glow after racing a steam train down the Severn Valley!<\/p>\n<p>Edward Andrews of Shropshire Council said, \u201cThis stretch of the Severn Valley is a great area for running, being traffic-free and scenic. Runners will also get a bonus one-way steam train ride. I would urge people to enter early to avoid disappointment\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lewis Maddox of Severn Valley Railway said, \u201cThe team on the Railway are very excited about this event. It is the first time that one of our engines has raced a group of runners and it should be a closely-fought battle\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The entry price for the event is \u00a320 and that includes a wonderful chip-timed trail run against the train, parking at Severn Valley Country Park, a medal, goody bag, 1-way steam train ride and a burger and beer. Runners can enter online at www.stuweb.co.uk\/race\/1Qt or can visit the event webpage at www.steamingdownthevalley.com<\/p>\n<p>There will be two heats (one starting at approximately 7pm and one starting at around 8pm) and registration is at Severn Valley Country Park in Alveley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p id=\"caption-attachment-5204\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jon Brown (manager of Golden Lion), Sarah Fortune (Shropshire Council Outdoor Partnerships Team) and Charlotte Holden (Holdens Brewery)<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a new running event where you can have a go racing a stream train! Shropshire Council, StuWeb Events and Severn Valley Railway are organising the race called \u2018Steaming down the Valley\u2019 on the evening [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[187],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5203"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5203"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5206,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5203\/revisions\/5206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}