{"id":3339,"date":"2015-09-04T14:53:56","date_gmt":"2015-09-04T14:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"hhttps:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/?p=3339"},"modified":"2015-09-04T14:53:56","modified_gmt":"2015-09-04T14:53:56","slug":"angus-nicholson-marathon-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/2015\/09\/04\/angus-nicholson-marathon-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Angus Nicholson: Marathon Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/marathonlondon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/marathonlondon.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"marathonLondon\" width=\"300\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/marathonlondon.jpg 1685w, https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/marathonlondon-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/marathonlondon-1024x593.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/marathonlondon-768x444.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/marathonlondon-1536x889.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u201cI\u2019ve done the Malta marathon ten times&#8230; And I\u2019ve done London seventeen times&#8230; And I\u2019ve done Glasgow thirty times. I\u2019ve only missed it once, because last year I had a broken leg.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For a man who didn\u2019t start running until he was pushing fifty we can perhaps forgive that last unfortunate omission!<\/p>\n<p>Grimsay resident Angus Nicholson, cousin to <a href=\"hhttps:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/2015\/02\/16\/ewen-macaskill\/\">Ewen MacAskill<\/a>, talks to Mary Morrison about his remarkable long distance running career, and shows us some of his many medals and trophies garnered over the last thirty years. Abair sgeulachd!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks are also due to Chris Davies, who did a fine job of editing Mary\u2019s clips together.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Angus Nicholson: Marathon Man\" width=\"656\" height=\"369\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AKQw8r_tuA0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI\u2019ve done the Malta marathon ten times&#8230; And I\u2019ve done London seventeen times&#8230; And I\u2019ve done Glasgow thirty times. I\u2019ve only missed it once, because last year I had a broken leg.\u201d For a man who didn\u2019t start running until he was pushing fifty we can perhaps forgive that last unfortunate omission! Grimsay resident Angus &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/2015\/09\/04\/angus-nicholson-marathon-man\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Angus Nicholson: Marathon Man<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-ugc","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}