{"id":153,"date":"2012-10-28T10:49:42","date_gmt":"2012-10-28T10:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/events\/?p=153"},"modified":"2025-10-06T10:32:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T10:32:57","slug":"music-marathon-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/events\/news\/music-marathon-2012","title":{"rendered":"Music Marathon 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A day of sunshine, exercise and music. An epic event of immense proportions when taking in the carnival atmosphere of the event at the Music Marathon 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Competition was a great deal more competitive this year when compared to last year&#8217;s race with the winner Xavi Forcadell only taking the lead at the 18km mark after tracking Jose Reboredo the entire race.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Forcadell took the title in 72:00 with Reboredo 2nd in 72:52 and Stephen Bayliss; 3rd here in the <a title=\"Lanzarote Ironman 2012\" href=\"http:\/\/www.time-to-tri.com\/news\/del-corral-vesterby-take-lanzarote-ironman-titles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lanzarote Ironman in May<\/a>, again taking 3rd place in 74:25.<\/p>\n<p>Katie North, who works at Playitis on the island of Fuerteventura, was the women&#8217;s &#8216;runaway&#8217; winner leading all the way to win comfortably in a time of 92:59.<\/p>\n<p>For 2nd place, Rosa Gutierrez (1:41:04) was involved in a feisty duel with Laura Trasande (1:41:25) swapping positions over the last lap of the course for the local and previous winner of the race, Gutierrez to eventually best her rival by 25 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>With a 5 and 10,56km been run at the same time of\u00a0 the half marathon, the 4 x 5km lap route can be seen as a chaotic scene of colour, carnival and exercise. The races are each competitive under their own terms however the main emphasis is fun and spectator involvement.<\/p>\n<p>For the record the half of the half marathon was won by Victor Guadalope in 36:29 with the Women&#8217;s category won by visiting Netherland&#8217;s athlete, Marieke van Lierop, in 44:05<\/p>\n<p>With the &#8216;kids&#8217; races before the main event and the musicians on hand, there was enough fun, competition and excitement for all involved to have a thoroughly enjoyable day as the musicians strummed through into the dark hours.<\/p>\n<p>Roll on Music Marathon 2013<\/p>\n<p>Music Marathon 2012 Gallery<\/p>\n<p>Author: <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/106622089229881730293?rel=author\">Gavin Doyle<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[nggallery id=1]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A day of sunshine, exercise and music. An epic event of immense proportions when taking in the carnival atmosphere of the event at the Music Marathon 2012. Competition was a great deal more competitive this year when compared to last year&#8217;s race with the winner Xavi Forcadell only taking the lead at the 18km mark [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,11,1],"tags":[84,154,156,148,147,149,155,153],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-half-marathon","category-news","tag-84","tag-jose-reboredo","tag-katie-north","tag-lanzarote","tag-music-marathon","tag-puerto-del-carmen","tag-stephen-bayliss","tag-xavi-forcadell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":820,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions\/820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}