{"id":318363,"date":"2020-03-02T06:04:07","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T20:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=318363"},"modified":"2020-03-02T06:04:07","modified_gmt":"2020-03-01T20:04:07","slug":"villafria-taylor-lead-finishers-in-tagaman-warmup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/villafria-taylor-lead-finishers-in-tagaman-warmup\/","title":{"rendered":"Villafria, Taylor lead finishers in Tagaman warmup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ronald Villaria  and Heather Taylor\u2019s strong run pushed them on top of the finishers list in last Saturday\u2019s 2020 Sprint Triathlon Tagaman Race Series 3.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_318365\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-318365\" style=\"width: 265px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/tagamanpix-villafria-265x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"265\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-318365\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-318365\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Villafria<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Villaria won the closely fought men\u2019s event of the last pre-Tagaman Triathlon race after completing the course in 1:21:15, just 16 seconds ahead of Tyce Mister. Nap Dizon rounded out the Top 3 after checking in at 1:22:32.<\/p>\n<p>After falling behind in the 750-meter swim (Kilili Beach) and 35-kilometer bike (Kilili\/Airport Road\/Hyatt\/Kilili), Villafria performed well in the 5K run (Kilili to Beach Road Pathaway across Monica\u2019s Gallery and back)\u2014his strongest suit\u2014as he submitted 35:48, nearly two minutes faster than Mister\u2019s 37:26. Villafria posted 13:33 and 32:54 in the swim and bike legs, while Mister timed in at 11:58 and 32:07 for a total time of 1:21:31. Dizon registered 12:04 in the swim part, was the fastest in the bike at 28:45, but fell behind in the run leg with his 41:43.<\/p>\n<p>Floro Derexes (1:24:01), Russ Quinn (1:24:43), Tony Raho (1:30:53), Thomas Loi (1:31:53), Leo Wania (1:33:39), and Rommel Tioseco (1:35:33) were the other finishers in the men\u2019s race.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_318367\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-318367\" style=\"width: 252px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/tagamapix-taylor-252x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"252\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-318367\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-318367\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taylor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In the women\u2019s division, Taylor tallied 1:21:01 to beat five other competitors. She recorded 12:21 in the swim leg and 33:36 in the bike for a neck-and-neck race against Robyn Spaeth (12:25 and 31:02) before gaining cushion in the run part after posting 35:04 versus the latter\u2019s 39:50.   <\/p>\n<p>Sarah Vander Wal completed the Top 3 after registering split times of 11:32 (fastest swimmer in the division), 39:09, and 37:55 for a total of 1:28:36. Sarka Glajchova (1:33:40), Kathy Ruszala (1:36:44), and Sheila Isla (1:53:25) also finished the course.<\/p>\n<p>In the team event, MV Team, Vitamin C.E., and Tri To Compete led their respective divisions.<\/p>\n<p>MV clocked in at 1:17:26 to down Agape Pegasus (1:17), Civic Boys (1:20:25) and six other squads in the men\u2019s category. Vitamin C.E. submitted 1:40:11 to place ahead of Agape Dolphins (1:41:19) in the women\u2019s, while Tri To Compete was the runaway winner in the mixed after timing in at 1:11:04. The seven other teams in the mixed relay event finished the course with times of 1:20:00 and change.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, registration for the Tagaman Triathlon set for March 21 is ongoing. Deadline to signup is on March 18. To register or for more information, check http:\/\/saipantriathlon.com or https:\/\/www.webscorer.com\/register?raceid=198830.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ronald Villaria and Heather Taylor\u2019s strong run pushed them on top of the finishers list&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":318365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-318363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318363","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}