{"id":2302,"date":"2016-04-24T15:21:20","date_gmt":"2016-04-24T15:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/southern-england\/?p=2302"},"modified":"2016-04-24T15:21:20","modified_gmt":"2016-04-24T15:21:20","slug":"si-southern-england-supporting-the-southampton-half-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/southern-england\/2016\/04\/24\/si-southern-england-supporting-the-southampton-half-marathon\/","title":{"rendered":"SI Southern England: Supporting the Southampton Half Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The members of SI Southern England turned out in force to support the Southampton Half Marathon and related events on 24th April.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2316\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2316\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/southern-england\/files\/2016\/04\/The-banner.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2316\" src=\"\/southern-england\/files\/2016\/04\/The-banner-300x179.jpg\" alt=\"Our banner!\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/southern-england\/files\/2016\/04\/The-banner-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/southern-england\/files\/2016\/04\/The-banner.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2316\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Our banner!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Preparations had already begun the previous day, but nevertheless we got up at an impossibly early hour (for a Sunday!) in order to meet at 8am at Costa in Bargate.\u00a0 It was a VERY cold morning! Thank goodness for coffee!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2303\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2303\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/southern-england\/files\/2016\/04\/20160424_081520.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2303\" src=\"\/southern-england\/files\/2016\/04\/20160424_081520-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Warming up with coffee!\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2303\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Warming up with coffee!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Regional President Ruth&#8217;s planning was impeccable.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2313\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2313\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/southern-england\/files\/2016\/04\/Madame-Reg-Pres-briefing-us.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2313 size-medium\" src=\"\/southern-england\/files\/2016\/04\/Madame-Reg-Pres-briefing-us-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2313\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Regional President Ruth briefing us<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Then we were off to decorate the mile we had been assigned.\u00a0 We were lucky to be stationed along the High Street, close to coffee and loos!<\/p>\n<p>We had lots of balloons, including some in the shape of our dynamic S.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2310\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2310\" style=\"width: 168px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/southern-england\/files\/2016\/04\/20160424_101720.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2310\" src=\"\/southern-england\/files\/2016\/04\/20160424_101720-168x300.jpg\" alt=\"SI Bournemouth &amp; SI Poole decorated a bike, having asked permission from the owner!\" width=\"168\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2310\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SI Bournemouth &amp; SI Poole decorated a bike, having asked permission from the owner!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2311\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2311\" style=\"width: 168px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/southern-england\/files\/2016\/04\/20160424_101749.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2311\" src=\"\/southern-england\/files\/2016\/04\/20160424_101749-168x300.jpg\" alt=\"Competing with the poster girl!\" width=\"168\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2311\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Competing with the poster girl!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here come the runners!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2308\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2308\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/southern-england\/files\/2016\/04\/20160424_100457.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2308\" src=\"\/southern-england\/files\/2016\/04\/20160424_100457-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Entering the Soroptimist mile!  Uphill!\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2308\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Entering the Soroptimist mile! Uphill!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Our banner is clearly in view but will the runners see it?\u00a0 Will they ask &#8216;Why are you a Soroptimist?&#8217;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2314\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2314\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/southern-england\/files\/2016\/04\/making-us-visible.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2314 size-medium\" src=\"\/southern-england\/files\/2016\/04\/making-us-visible-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2314\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Making us visible<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>All too soon, the races were over &#8211; but the stand stayed up till mid-afternoon!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2315\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2315\" style=\"width: 168px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/southern-england\/files\/2016\/04\/SI-SE-stand.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2315 size-medium\" src=\"\/southern-england\/files\/2016\/04\/SI-SE-stand-168x300.jpg\" alt=\"SI SE stand\" width=\"168\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/southern-england\/files\/2016\/04\/SI-SE-stand-168x300.jpg 168w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/southern-england\/files\/2016\/04\/SI-SE-stand.jpg 324w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 168px) 100vw, 168px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2315\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Our stand attracted a lot of attention<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It was all great fun &#8211; and, who knows, we might get some new members!\u00a0 We hope so!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The members of SI Southern England turned out in force to support the Southampton Half&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":591,"featured_media":2316,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[93,94],"class_list":["post-2302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-clubs-news","tag-si-southern-england","tag-southampton"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>SI Southern England: Supporting the Southampton Half Marathon | News | Blog | Events | SI Southern England<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Southern England : Blog &amp; News : SI Southern England: Supporting the Southampton Half Marathon : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Southern England . 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