{"id":334706,"date":"2020-12-08T06:04:39","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T20:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=334706"},"modified":"2020-12-08T06:04:39","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T20:04:39","slug":"sendin-leads-mtb-finishers-in-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/sendin-leads-mtb-finishers-in-hell\/","title":{"rendered":"Sendin leads MTB finishers in \u2018Hell\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_334707\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-334707\" style=\"width: 432px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/hellpixxx.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/hellpixxx.jpg\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-334707\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charlie Sendin, seen here in competing in an earlier tournament in Marpi, won the MTB race in last Sunday\u2019s Hell of Marianas. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Charlie Sendin topped the mountain bike category of the 2020 Hell of the Marianas held last Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Sendin clocked in at 2:31:12 in the 68-kilometer race that started and ended at the Mariana Resort &amp; Spa and brought bikers to Mobil Tanapag, 5 Corners (Suicide Cliff, Bird Island, Grotto, Banzai Cliff, Radar Tower), La Fiesta, and 4 Corners (Suicide Cliff, Bird Island, Grotto, and Banzai Cliff). The 37-year-old rider reached the finish line more than three minutes ahead of runner-up Noe Valdisimo (2:35:45) and over five minutes against Butch Sublemente (2:37:38).<\/p>\n<p>In the 40-and-under age group, Michael Aparte took the top honors, as he also completed the course under the three-hour mark after posting 2:41:46. At far second was Renzo Avila, who clocked in at 3:14:42, while Kevin Rejano rounded out the Top 3 after registering 3:30:42.<\/p>\n<p>In the 45 to 49 division, Hernando Cristobal logged 2:52:13 to beat Nelson Pagaduan (2:59:03) and Ronald Villafria (3:29:23). In the 60-and-above age group, Pax Guevarra was the lone finisher to break the three-our barrier with his 2:57:28, as he downed Boboy Aguilar (3:27:18) and Rey Tentia (4:01:58).<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, other top age group finishers in last weekend\u2019s race were Christopher Sterling (3:46:17) in the 40 to 44 division; Nestor Abing (3:01:58) in the 50 to 54); and Norlo Jacosalem (2:43:50) in the 55 to 59. Jacosalem won over Noel Altamirano (2:45:39), while Abing prevailed against Ric Antonio (3:41:16).<\/p>\n<p>There were also relay races last Sunday with Jacob\u2019s Bake Shop &amp; BBQ (2:46:29), Team Estepa (2:55:33), and Team Apol (3:09:58) ruling the men\u2019s road bike, mixed road bike, and men\u2019s MTB categories, respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Sendin topped the mountain bike category of the 2020 Hell of the Marianas held&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":334708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3963],"class_list":["post-334706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-mtb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334706","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=334706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}