{"id":262947,"date":"2017-10-24T06:00:45","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T20:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=262947"},"modified":"2017-10-24T06:00:45","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T20:00:45","slug":"familiar-faces-crowd-mtb-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/familiar-faces-crowd-mtb-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Familiar faces crowd MTB race"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-262947 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/familiar-faces-crowd-mtb-race\/biking1\/'>biking1<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-262957'>\n\t\t\t\tPacific Islands Club\u2019s Bike For Life women\u2019s MTB champ Glorybel Tan, second left, and third placer Heather Brook, center, join race organizers for a photo-op after the awarding ceremony. (Jon Perez)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/familiar-faces-crowd-mtb-race\/biking2\/'>biking2<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-262958'>\n\t\t\t\tMen\u2019s MTB Top 3 finishers, Mark Isip, third left, Noe Valdisimo, second left, and Ding Ramos, third right, pose with organizers of the 2017 PIC Bike For Life. (Jon Perez)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Familiar faces in the cycling community crowded the podium in the mountain bike division of last Saturday\u2019s Pacific Islands Club-Saipan Bike For Life.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Isip led the Top 3 men\u2019s winners, while Glorybel Tan duplicated the feat in the women\u2019s division. They were the two fastest in the 50-kilometer MTB race that started and ended at PIC\u2019s south parking lot  with a turnaround point at Banzai Cliff.<\/p>\n<p>Isip clocked in at 1:23:27.09 in another mad dash to the finish line to beat Noe Valdisimo by 53 tenths of a second, as the latter registered 1:23:27.62. Ferdinand Ramos came in at third with his 1:23:46.12.<\/p>\n<p>Tan, meanwhile, crossed the finish line in 1:38:23 for a full two-minute lead over closest pursuer Beth Kohnen, who timed 1:40:56.81. Heather Brook was the third best female MTB rider, finishing the course in 1:48:49.78.<\/p>\n<p>Isip and Tan, along with youngsters and road bike winners Jerome Diyco and J.C. Ferrer, received free entries to this year\u2019s Hell of the Marianas set in December. They also got gift certificates at Seaside Grill, PIC waterpark passes for two, and a case of Pepsi.<\/p>\n<p>J.C. Libut and Nap Dizon came in second and third behind Diyco in the men\u2019s road bike, while Zairya Marfega and Kimiko McKagan joined Ferrer at the podium in the women\u2019s side.<\/p>\n<p>The runners-up received  Sunday brunch certificates at Magellan\u2019s, waterpark passes for two, and a case of Pepsi, while the third placers went home with lunch certificates at Magellan\u2019s, waterpark passes for two, and a case of Pepsi.<\/p>\n<p>The Bike For Life was a fundraising event and proceeds from the weekend race will go to the Commonwealth Cancer Association. It was also the second bike race under the HOM Century Cycle Race Series after last month\u2019s Bike and Run For Cure. The final race in the series is the DFS Bike for Her on Oct. 28.<\/p>\n<p>PIC Sports &amp; Events manager Keoni Ichihara thanked everyone who joined the race and the event\u2019s sponsors\u2014Pacific Trading Co., Bridge Capital, HOM, the Northern Mariana Islands Cycling Federation, and PIC\u00ad\u2014for their support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Familiar faces in the cycling community crowded the podium in the mountain bike division of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":262957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[18775,7586,10179,409],"class_list":["post-262947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-glorybel-tan","tag-hom","tag-mark-isip","tag-pic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}