{"id":84363,"date":"2017-09-14T07:00:30","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T07:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=2df4b74071f1281545680e505bfd386b"},"modified":"2017-09-14T07:00:30","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T07:00:30","slug":"news-story-ministry-of-defence-police-officer-completes-world-marathon-majors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=84363","title":{"rendered":"News story: Ministry of Defence Police Officer completes World Marathon Majors"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Aaron, T\/Sergeant in Operations, based in Berkshire, has successfully completed marathons in Tokyo, Boston, London, Berlin, Chicago and New York.<\/p>\n

He said:<\/p>\n

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It started in 2008 when my New Year\u2019s resolution was to run a marathon having never run any long distance before. I ended up choosing a cross country marathon, which I completed in 3:49:00, vowing afterwards never to do a marathon again!<\/p>\n

For the next couple of years I ran a couple of 10k races and half marathons, before gaining entry into the London Marathon in 2011. My aim was to go sub 3 hours for the first time and I achieved this with a time of 2:56:15.<\/p>\n

I then found out about the World Marathon Majors, with my aim being to complete each marathon in under three hours. I completed Berlin in 2012 in 2:56:30, which got me a qualifying time for Boston in 2013.<\/p>\n

After running Boston in 2:57:55 I had mixed emotions due to the bombings that took place there that year. Thankfully I was at my hotel with my wife, Micayla, when it all unfolded.<\/p>\n

In 2014 I went to Chicago, where I managed to knock 10 minutes off my best time, completing it in 2:46:59. The following year was New York, in which I ran 2:47:44, deciding after that to run London again in 2016 to try to better my previous time. I crossed the line in 2:36:55, knocking ten minutes off my personal best, set in Chicago, and 20 minutes off my first London time.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The final race of the majors challenge was Tokyo in February 2017. I qualified as a semi-elite athlete, thanks to the time I set in London. I ran a personal best in 2:33:47 which I was very happy with, considering I didn\u2019t adjust to the time difference and had very little sleep.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Going forward I am representing the MDP<\/abbr> at the Police Sport UK 10 mile race this month (September) as part of my training for the Frankfurt marathon in October.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Aaron thanked Assistant Chief Constable Operations, Paul McLaughlin, for his support and the help of the MDP<\/abbr> Sports Fund with entry fees, as well as the support he has received from his wife, family and work colleagues.<\/p>\n

Congratulating Aaron, Mr McLaughlin commented:<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m absolutely delighted with his fantastic and overwhelming achievement, which is clearly down to his dedication and the support he has had from family, friends and colleagues.<\/p>\n

At a time when the force is driving through the necessary fitness level requirement to meet our role profiles in MDP<\/abbr>, what Aaron has demonstrated is where officers could possibly take their personal health and fitness through sheer dedication.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

T\/CC Andy Adams commented:<\/p>\n

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Wow, what a fantastic achievement! We take officer fitness very seriously in MDP<\/abbr>, striving continually to raise fitness standards to fulfil our vital role in guarding the nation\u2019s defences: Aaron\u2019s commitment and determination is an example to us all.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Super fit MDP Officer Aaron Wilson has completed the World Marathon Majors, running 6 major city marathons, with another one lined up for October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84363"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}