{"id":260,"date":"2005-09-28T09:19:39","date_gmt":"2005-09-28T09:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/women\/?p=260"},"modified":"2011-12-25T12:07:59","modified_gmt":"2011-12-25T12:07:59","slug":"womenonly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/women\/articles\/womenonly","title":{"rendered":"Women only events by Cassandra Davis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_263\" style=\"width: 541px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/women\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/women-only.590.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-263\" class=\"size-full wp-image-263 \" title=\"Women Only Events\" src=\"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/women\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/women-only.590.jpg\" alt=\"Women Only Events\" width=\"531\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/women\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/women-only.590.jpg 590w, https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/women\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/women-only.590-300x127.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 531px) 100vw, 531px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-263\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Women Only Events<\/p><\/div>\n<p>All over the world a trend towards creating races for women only is  on the rise. This was very evident in the increase in total from 5 000  in 2004 to 7 894 participants in the 9th edition of the French \u201cLa  Parisienne\u201d race held on September 18 2005.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The race starts at the Eiffel tower  and takes a 6km loop along the Seine river. 6 km is a very manageable  distance for most women and therefore attracts women of all ages and  capacity. The race has unique entry categories for prizes such as,  friends, colleagues, mothers and grandmothers categories. Each finisher  receiving a rose and medal for their efforts.<\/p>\n<p>This edition was also special in that  it paid homage to Colette Besson the French women 400m Olympic gold  medalist who died recently from cancer.<\/p>\n<p>This event also supports a breast  cancer awareness programme. By contributing 1 euro, participants get an  armband to run with to show their support.<\/p>\n<p>Workshops and stands on coaching tips  for women, footcare, aromatherapy, and nutrition were also present  throughout the weekend at the race site, provided added features to  attract women to continue and take up running. Races such as this one,  which have childcare facilities, are a big plus for mothers.<\/p>\n<p>Women only races are like a healthy  version of a women\u2019s night out, mother\u2019s day, and mother and daughter  bonding all rolled into one. There is also the advantage that you don\u2019t  have some macho guy sprint pass you in the last 100 metres and only to  congratulate you on the finish line!<\/p>\n<p>To find out about other world races of this kind visit:<br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.la-parisienne.net\/agenda_course_feminines_france_etranger.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.la-parisienne.net\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Further Articles in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/women\">The Women&#8217;s section<\/a>:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All over the world a trend towards creating races for women only is on the rise. This was very evident in the increase in total from 5 000 in 2004 to 7 894 participants in the 9th edition of the French \u201cLa Parisienne\u201d race held on September 18 2005.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":263,"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":[1,6],"tags":[70,68,69],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-featured","tag-70","tag-france","tag-women-only"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/women\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/women\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/women\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/women\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/women\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/women\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":831,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/women\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions\/831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/women\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/women\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/women\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/women\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}