{"id":1120,"date":"2015-03-16T10:31:24","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T10:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/?p=1120"},"modified":"2015-03-16T10:36:17","modified_gmt":"2015-03-16T10:36:17","slug":"cants2dam-students-to-run-300-miles-in-10-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/2015\/03\/16\/cants2dam-students-to-run-300-miles-in-10-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Cants2Dam: students to run 300 miles in 10 days!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In June 2015, 10 runners from the University of Kent will be embarking on a 300 mile ultra-marathon in 10 days, running from Canterbury to Brussels and then on to Amsterdam. They will average 30 miles a day, running the equivalent of 11 and a half marathons, and aim to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justgiving.com\/cants2dam\">raise money<\/a> for the British Heart Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>The challenge, Cants2Dam, has received funding from\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/giving\/opportunityfund\/index.html\">Kent Opportunity Fund<\/a>, which supports extra-curricular activities at Kent that enhance the student experience, and also provides scholarships and hardships bursaries.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/50\/celebrate\/projects\/campus2campus.html\">Last year<\/a>, the runners took on the Campus2Campus challenge and ran from Kent\u2019s Canterbury campus to its postgraduate centre in Paris, raising over \u00a36,000 for local Kent based charity Pilgrims Hospice.<\/p>\n<p>Further details\u00a0about the challenge and the Cants2Dam runners can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/cants2dam.wix.com\/cants2dam\">online<\/a>, including details on how you can <a href=\"http:\/\/cants2dam.wix.com\/cants2dam#!our-story\/c755\">join them<\/a> for the first leg of the run from Canterbury to Dover on 15 June!<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please contact <a href=\"mailto:50years@kent.ac.uk\">50years@kent.ac.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In June 2015, 10 runners from the University of Kent will be embarking on a 300 mile ultra-marathon in 10 days, running from Canterbury to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/2015\/03\/16\/cants2dam-students-to-run-300-miles-in-10-days\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34788,"featured_media":1121,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[118124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34788"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1120"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1126,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions\/1126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}