{"id":1140,"date":"2015-10-04T14:50:47","date_gmt":"2015-10-04T13:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medicinedev.st-andrews.ac.uk\/?p=1140"},"modified":"2015-10-04T14:50:47","modified_gmt":"2015-10-04T13:50:47","slug":"great-scottish-run-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/great-scottish-run-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Scottish Run success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2015\/10\/photo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1141 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/med.st-andrews.ac.uk\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2015\/10\/photo-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"photo\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a>Dr Jim Aiton celebrated his retirement in style by completing his first ever half marathon in the fantastic time of 2:03:33 and coming 28<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0in his age category in the Glasgow Half Marathon.\u00a0 Jim was supported on the day by his colleagues Matt Holden &amp; Ruth Cruickshank who he had trained to perfection by encouraging them out at 06.50 every Monday morning for a 4 mile run over the West Sands before work!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Typically Jim decided to raise cash for Children in Need so his team were sporting Pudsey hats, this attracted the attention of the BBC.\u00a0 Jim kindly shared his training secret with millions of BBC viewers\u2026he was running fuelled on gin!\u00a0 Jim\u2019s link for donations can be found:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mydonate.bt.com\/fundraisers\/jimaiton1\">https:\/\/mydonate.bt.com\/fundraisers\/jimaiton1<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2015\/10\/20151004_104516.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1143 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/med.st-andrews.ac.uk\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2015\/10\/20151004_104516-1024x614.jpg\" alt=\"20151004_104516\" width=\"923\" height=\"553\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colleagues from the School of Medicine took part in the Great Scottish Run<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1141,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[207,331,360,390],"class_list":["post-1140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorised","tag-children-in-need","tag-dr-jim-aiton","tag-dr-matt-holden","tag-dr-ruth-cruickshank"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-20 04:16:30","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}