{"id":6610,"date":"2026-08-02T21:29:39","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T20:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/?p=6610"},"modified":"2026-08-02T21:29:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T20:29:39","slug":"the-return-of-elderfit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/?p=6610","title":{"rendered":"The Return of Elderfit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The club recently\u00a0 hosted two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/?page_id=6163\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elderfit<\/a> sessions for around 10 or 12 visitors, most of whom were strangers to the game of petanque. They enjoyed the experience very much, but, in both sessions, the heat got the better of everyone and it was agreed to curtail the session for health reasons.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6613 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Elderfit-10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Elderfit-10.jpg 1640w, https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Elderfit-10-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Elderfit-10-1024x767.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Elderfit-10-768x575.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Elderfit-10-1536x1150.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Elderfit-10-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6614 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Elderfit-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Elderfit-11.jpg 1126w, https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Elderfit-11-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Elderfit-11-1024x766.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Elderfit-11-768x574.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Elderfit-11-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Our club has previously hosted Elderfit events so we were pleased to see them return and we hope to continue such sessions in the future but hopefully in cooler conditions.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thanks to Roger, Mike, Spencer, Vickie &amp; Bernard for helping organise the sessions and supervising the play and thanks to Gareth for bringing his Elderfitters to the Club.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The club recently\u00a0 hosted two Elderfit sessions for around 10 or 12 visitors, most of whom were strangers to the game of petanque. They enjoyed the experience very much, but, in both sessions, the heat got the better of everyone and it was agreed to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-friendship"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6610"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6626,"href":"https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6610\/revisions\/6626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}