{"id":265107,"date":"2017-11-24T06:06:53","date_gmt":"2017-11-23T20:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=265107"},"modified":"2017-11-24T06:06:53","modified_gmt":"2017-11-23T20:06:53","slug":"longuski-makes-winning-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/longuski-makes-winning-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Longuski makes winning return"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-265107 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\/longuski-makes-winning-return\/nmapixright\/'>nmapixright<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-265146'>\n\t\t\t\tMaury Widervaenders is on her way to a first place finish in the open division. (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\/longuski-makes-winning-return\/nmapixleft\/'>nmapixleft<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-265145'>\n\t\t\t\tKeith Longuski prepares to take on the uphill climb leading to the top of Mt. Tapochau during the 33rd Annual Turkey Trot Fun Run held yesterday. (Jon Perez)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Keith Longuski hardly broke a sweat when he ruled the 33rd Annual Turkey Trot Mt. Tapochau Fun Run yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Longuski, who won in 2015 but skipped last year\u2019s event, broke away from the pack early to finish the race in 38:16. The Commonwealth Health Center physician assistant\u2019s record was almost a minute slower than his 37:28 mark two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>A cool 77\u00b0F weather and gentle breeze greeted Longuski and the 146 other runners who took on the challenge of making the 4.2-mile (6.8 kilometers) uphill run from Lower Base near the Tanapag Harbor up to Saipan\u2019s highest point. This year\u2019s course became extra challenging with road repairs being done along Isa Drive going up to Capital Hill, while the usual trek up the 1,554-foot mountain remained rough and filled with potholes.<\/p>\n<p>Charlie Sendin, the 2013 and 2016 men\u2019s open champion, was almost two minutes behind Longuski at 41:02 to place second overall and claim the 30-39 age group. His time last year, however, was a little faster as he checked in at 40:23.<\/p>\n<p>Maury Widervaenders topped the women\u2019s open division with a time of 55:30, while Ayano Braxton duplicated Sendin\u2019s feat in the same age group after crossing the finish line at 54:17.<\/p>\n<p>Youngsters Dylan Mister and 10-year-old Kaithlyn Andrei Chavez were the fastest U12 age division runners after logging in 52:33 and 56.30, respectively. Agape Christian School\u2019s Peter Wang and Saipan International School\u2019s Tania Tan topped the U17 with the former submitting 42:55 and the latter posting 48:59.<\/p>\n<p>Taro Kubo and Heather Kennedy ruled the men\u2019s and women\u2019s 40-49 age category with times of 46:34 and 1:02:02, while multisport athlete Tyce Mister, who came in fifth overall, joined Sakiko Eda in the over 50 division winners list as they clocked in at 44:33 and 50:31, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>All winners went home with turkeys for Thanksgiving Day, while raffle prizes\u2014lunch buffets, brunch, beverages, and others\u2014were given to lucky participants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keith Longuski hardly broke a sweat when he ruled the 33rd Annual Turkey Trot Mt&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":265148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[10764,10765,9824,19199],"class_list":["post-265107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-ayano-braxton","tag-charlie-sendin","tag-keith-longuski","tag-tapochau-fun-run"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265107","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=265107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}