{"id":590,"date":"2014-04-17T16:53:24","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T16:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/?p=590"},"modified":"2014-04-22T15:55:51","modified_gmt":"2014-04-22T15:55:51","slug":"biosciences-phd-student-completes-london-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2014\/04\/17\/biosciences-phd-student-completes-london-marathon\/","title":{"rendered":"Biosciences PhD student completes London Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many congratulations to James Budge, a PhD student in the School of Biosciences, for completing the London Marathon in an impressive 3 hours and 37 minutes and\u00a0finishing 6,232 out of\u00a0around 36,000 competitors. James has raised \u00a31,750 for his chosen charity <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hft.org.uk\/\">Hft<\/a>, which provides local support services to people with learning disabilities and their families.\u00a0His fundraising efforts were supported by a charity bake sale\u00a0in the School of Biosciences which raised \u00a3250, while generous\u00a0individual donations\u00a0from the School&#8217;s staff and students contributed to a total that is\u00a0likely to exceed \u00a32,000 in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Equally impressive was\u00a0School of Biosciences alumnus\u00a0Neil Renault, who completed the same event in 2 hours 24 minutes and\u00a0finished 11th in the non-elite race. This\u00a0must be a record for a School of Biosciences graduate!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul class=\"kent-social-links\"><li><a href='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2014\/04\/17\/biosciences-phd-student-completes-london-marathon\/&amp;t=Biosciences PhD student completes London Marathon' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-facebook' title='Share via Facebook'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Biosciences PhD student completes London Marathon%20https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2014\/04\/17\/biosciences-phd-student-completes-london-marathon\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-twitter' title='Share via Twitter'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2014\/04\/17\/biosciences-phd-student-completes-london-marathon\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-google-plus' title='Share via Google Plus'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2014\/04\/17\/biosciences-phd-student-completes-london-marathon\/&amp;title=Biosciences PhD student completes London Marathon' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-linkedin' title='Share via Linked In'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='mailto:content=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2014\/04\/17\/biosciences-phd-student-completes-london-marathon\/&amp;title=Biosciences PhD student completes London Marathon' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-email' title='Share via Email'><\/i><\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many congratulations to James Budge, a PhD student in the School of Biosciences, for completing the London Marathon in an impressive 3 hours and 37 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2014\/04\/17\/biosciences-phd-student-completes-london-marathon\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2767,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2767"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":593,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions\/593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}