{"id":362493,"date":"2022-02-18T06:00:55","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T20:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=362493"},"modified":"2022-02-18T06:00:55","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T20:00:55","slug":"10-teams-entered-in-inaugural-marianas-ekiden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/10-teams-entered-in-inaugural-marianas-ekiden\/","title":{"rendered":"10 teams entered in Inaugural Marianas Ekiden"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_362512\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-362512\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Run-Saipan-pix-11.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-362512\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Team 5 made up of Hiramitsu Ono, Micheteru Mita, Noriko Jim, and Taro Goto was the top Saipan finisher in the Guam Running Club\u2019s Ekiden last year. (CONTRIBUTED PHOTO )<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Run Saipan\u2019s Inaugural Marianas Ekiden is all set tomorrow with so far 10 teams signed up for the 21-kilometer relay from Micro Beach in Garapan to just before Pacific Islands Club Saipan in San Antonio and back.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, 11 Saipan teams took part in the Guam Running Club\u2019s Ekiden with Team 5 made up of Hiramitsu Ono, Micheteru Mita, Noriko Jim, and Taro Goto coming in first among Saipan teams with a time of 1:33.03.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wanted to keep the tradition going of doing long distance relay races. We had a great amount of interest last year as we are doing it this year but as our own race now. Last year we were supporting the Guam Running Club\u2019s race,\u201d said Run Saipan president Edward Dela Cruz Jr.<\/p>\n<p>He said the non-profit running club will be entering two teams this year. Others that have so far signed up are Kosuke Sato\u2019s team with a different lineup, Trey Dunn and Brad Ruszala\u2019s Arguably Descent podcast team, Life in the Son pastor Eric Abragan\u2019s team with the rest being raffled off teams.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis year we are still raffling runners that couldn\u2019t make a team or wanted to meet new runners randomly. That\u2019s what we pride ourselves with the Ekiden relay raffle system we created from last year. Runners can be randomly drawn into teams and run for fun,\u201d said Dela Cruz.<\/p>\n<p>There are 10 more slots available for Run Saipan\u2019s Inaugural Marianas Ekiden. To register, click your browsers to https:\/\/raceroster.com\/&#8230;\/2022\/56932\/marianas-ekiden-2022. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Run Saipan\u2019s Inaugural Marianas Ekiden is all set tomorrow with so far 10 teams signed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":362495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362493","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\/362493","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}