{"id":363224,"date":"2022-03-01T06:04:22","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T20:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=363224"},"modified":"2022-03-01T06:04:22","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T20:04:22","slug":"aleksenko-chavez-top-aquathlon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/aleksenko-chavez-top-aquathlon\/","title":{"rendered":"Aleksenko, Chavez top aquathlon"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_363227\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-363227\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/TRAC-pix-w1.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-363227\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Isaiah Aleksenko, center, is all smiles after winning the men\u2019s aquathlon of the 7th Saipan Aquathlon &amp; 10K Pathway Run last Saturday. (CONTRIBUTED PHOTO)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Youngsters Isaiah Aleksenko and Kaithlyn Chavez topped the run and swim portion of the 7th Saipan Aquathlon &amp; 10K Pathway Run held along the Froilan C. Tenorio Beach Road Pathway and in the waters off Kilili Beach last Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Aleksenko was the first among the men to complete the 2.5-kilometer run, 1-kilometer swim, and 2.5-km run in 46:25. The Marianas High School student was followed by Jakey Deleon Guerrero and Michael Miller with times of 46:32 ad 49:04, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe water was alrighty and the running route was pretty short so I liked it. I knew I would had a positive mindset that I would win this race,\u201d said Aleksenko when asked about his thoughts on the two-sport race.<\/p>\n<p>Chavez, meanwhile, was the first to cross the finish line among the women after clocking in at 53:44 to make it back-to-back wins in the event. Jennie Thompson came in second with a time of 58:20 with Lindsay Nash completing the Top 3 in 58:40.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_363230\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-363230\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/TRAC-pix-2wb.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-363230\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kaithlyn Chavez, center, won the women\u2019s division of the the run and swim portion of the 7th Saipan Aquathlon &amp; 10K Pathway Run last Saturday. (CONTRIBUTED PHOTO)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe running route was somewhat easy and I just ran fast so I could have a big lead. While the water route was alright. At first I couldn\u2019t see because of my goggles so I had to stop swimming and fix it,\u201d said Chavez about the aquathlon.<\/p>\n<p>The Saipan International School student also said she didn\u2019t really focus on topping the race when she joined.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just told myself to work hard and have fun. Turns out I got first place,\u201d said Chavez, who dedicated her victory to her coaches and family.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 28 multi-sport athletes took part in the run-swim-run segment of the 7th Saipan Aquathlon &amp; 10K Pathway Run. The 10K run were topped by veteran runner Kosuke Sato (men) and Akiko Miller (women).<\/p>\n<p>The 7th Saipan Aquathlon &amp; 10K Pathway Run was organized by the Triathlon Association of the CNMI and sponsored by IT&amp;E and the Tan Siu Lin Foundation. It was originally part of the group\u2019s Road to Tagaman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Youngsters Isaiah Aleksenko and Kaithlyn Chavez topped the run and swim portion of the 7th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":363228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363224","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\/363224","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=363224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}