{"id":36809,"date":"2022-02-16T11:34:02","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T11:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdon.org.uk\/prep\/?p=36809"},"modified":"2022-02-16T12:04:06","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T12:04:06","slug":"whats-your-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdon.org.uk\/prep\/whats-your-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Your Thing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MBTu3pNYuAs\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>16 February 2022<\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"intro\">Top Ultra Marathon Runner, Damian Hall inspires APS pupils in what motivates him<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In February, Abingdon Prep launched a new initiative &#8216;What&#8217;s Your Thing?&#8217; in which pupils are challenged to think hard about where their passions and interests lie.<\/p>\n<p>We were delighted to be joined by Britain\u2019s top ultra runner, Damian Hall who, sharing his passion for running and the environment, answered questions from some of our pupils about what motivates him, what he thinks about during all those hours of running, what he finds most tough about it and how he manages to live and run in a carbon negative manner.<\/p>\n<p>There was certainly something to inspire everyone no matter what their &#8216;thing&#8217; might be &#8211; though it may not be quite as tough as Damian&#8217;s completion of the 268 mile Pennine Way!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>16 February 2022 Top Ultra Marathon Runner, Damian Hall inspires APS pupils in what motivates him In February, Abingdon Prep launched a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":36812,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-event-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What&#039;s Your Thing? 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