{"id":60622,"date":"2026-04-28T12:49:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T12:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/?p=60622"},"modified":"2026-04-28T12:49:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T12:49:46","slug":"university-of-sheffield-teacher-conquers-the-london-marathon-for-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/04\/28\/university-of-sheffield-teacher-conquers-the-london-marathon-for-charity\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Sheffield teacher conquers the London Marathon for charity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A Sheffield teacher ran the London Marathon at the weekend in memory of her brother who died by suicide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Polly Rippon, age 52, took part in the TCS London Marathon 2026 to support the suicide prevention charity, Baton of Hope, which is based in Sheffield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mrs Rippon, a teacher at the University of Sheffield, ran in memory of her brother Edd who took his own life, with suicide prevention being an important cause as it is the biggest killer of young men under 50.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"561\" src=\"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_4933-1-1024x561.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-60625\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_4933-1-1024x561.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_4933-1-980x537.jpeg 980w, https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_4933-1-480x263.jpeg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Screenshot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite running the marathon previously, Mrs Rippon ran this time to raise money for Baton of Hope, which is a small charity and she felt this was her \u201cway to give back to the community\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The marathon is one of the Abbott World Marathon Majors where around 59,000 runners undertook the challenging 26.2 mile route through the capital whilst being cheered on by the huge crowds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Polly raised over \u00a31,200 for the charity and completed the marathon after months of dedication and training.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Sheffield teacher ran the London Marathon at the weekend in memory of her brother who died by suicide. Polly Rippon, age 52, took part in the TCS London Marathon 2026 to support the suicide prevention charity, Baton of Hope, which is based in Sheffield. Mrs Rippon, a teacher at the University of Sheffield, ran [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":285,"featured_media":60623,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[191,132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-charity","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/285"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60622"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60630,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60622\/revisions\/60630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}