{"id":1268,"date":"2016-09-23T14:50:19","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T14:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/?p=1268"},"modified":"2022-04-13T16:14:27","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T16:14:27","slug":"meet-teamcardiff-mark-elliott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/2016\/09\/23\/meet-teamcardiff-mark-elliott\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet #TeamCardiff &#8211; Mark Elliott"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>In the lead up to the Cardiff University\/Cardiff Half Marathon we\u00a0are shining a spotlight on some of our #TeamCardiff runners.<\/strong> S<strong>enior lecturer from the\u00a0School of Chemistry\u00a0Mark Elliott, shares his story. <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/323\/2016\/09\/mark-elliot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1269 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/323\/2016\/09\/mark-elliot-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"#TeamCardiff runner and Chemistry Lecturer Mark Elliott \" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/323\/2016\/09\/mark-elliot-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/323\/2016\/09\/mark-elliot-507x338.jpg 507w, https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/323\/2016\/09\/mark-elliot-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/323\/2016\/09\/mark-elliot-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u00a0have just passed the slightly scary milestone of having worked at\u00a0Cardiff University for 20 years. I&#8217;ve never been much of a runner, although I started running the free\u00a0Cardiff parkrun a few years ago and really enjoy the sense of community as well as the opportunity to push myself. I&#8217;ve always wanted to run a marathon,\u00a0although 26 miles is a long way, so it\u00a0makes a lot of sense to start with a half marathon. It&#8217;s a\u00a0personal challenge at a point in my life where every statement about achievement needs to be followed by the words &#8216;for my age&#8217;! It&#8217;s great that Cardiff University supports the Cardiff Half Marathon, so I get the chance to run, and to raise money for cancer research within the University. Let&#8217;s hope my legs hold out, and I get round the course in under 2 hours!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in sponsoring Mark please visit his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justgiving.com\/fundraising\/Mark-Elliott18\">JustGiving page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(photo credit Paul\u00a0Stillman).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the lead up to the Cardiff University\/Cardiff Half Marathon we\u00a0are shining a spotlight on some of our #TeamCardiff runners. Senior lecturer from the\u00a0School of Chemistry\u00a0Mark Elliott, shares his story. [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1080,"featured_media":1269,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[142,4],"tags":[102,101,103],"class_list":["post-1268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-donate","category-news","tag-team-cardiff-runner","tag-cardiff-half","tag-lecturer"],"meta_box":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1080"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1268"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1305,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268\/revisions\/1305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}