{"id":5963,"date":"2025-10-10T18:11:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T17:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gscc-online.com\/news\/?p=5963"},"modified":"2025-10-10T18:11:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T17:11:22","slug":"marathon-training-11th-october-tony-shirley-pell-hasler-our-home-event-19th-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gscc-online.com\/news\/2025\/10\/10\/marathon-training-11th-october-tony-shirley-pell-hasler-our-home-event-19th-october\/","title":{"rendered":"Marathon Training 11th October &#8211; Tony &amp; Shirley Pell Hasler (our home event) 19th October"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Marathon training is ON this Saturday. To allow people to get to the pool for the 4&nbsp;o&#8217;clock session we want to be on the water for 2 pm&nbsp;so please try to get there for about 1:30.<br><br>Why not try a different type of boat?&nbsp; and&nbsp;I will be taking entries for our race on 19th October<br><br>&nbsp;Usual costs apply<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Tony &amp; Shirley Pell Hasler (our home event) 19th October<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Our Autumn club event is almost with us. This is part of the national Hasler series of events, with us racing in the Yorkshire region.&nbsp;<br><br>There is a four mile race open to anyone in any type of canoe\/kayak\/paddleboard and a 2 mile race open to Under 14&#8217;s.&nbsp; If you do not want to paddle please come along to see what it is all about.<br><br>We will have refreshments to buy including our famous charity cake stall.<br><br>Events like this need volunteers to make them a success. Almost all jobs are &#8220;bank-based&#8221; so please volunteer if you are able.<br><br>p.s. Cakes\/biscuits etc will be needed for the cake stall. Even if you can&#8217;t come on the Sunday you could bring down a cake to the pool on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What is the Hasler Series?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The Hasler Series and Trophy are named after&nbsp;Major Herbert \u2018Blondie\u2019 Hasler,&nbsp;DSO,&nbsp;OBE, a distinguished royal Marine&nbsp;officer in World War II who famously paddled 85 miles upstream, at night, into occupied France in a successful attempt to blow up enemy shipping and survived to tell the tale.<br><br>Read more about Operation Frankton by clicking <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1fk2DMafmQGHkqIyDAFOm9nmR4nnOsSZ-\/view?usp=drive_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marathon training is ON this Saturday. To allow people to get to the pool for the 4&nbsp;o&#8217;clock session we want to be on the water for 2 pm&nbsp;so please try to get there for about<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,11,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news","category-maranews","category-sprint"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gscc-online.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gscc-online.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gscc-online.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gscc-online.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gscc-online.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gscc-online.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5964,"href":"https:\/\/gscc-online.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5963\/revisions\/5964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gscc-online.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gscc-online.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gscc-online.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}