{"id":374763,"date":"2022-08-24T06:02:08","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T20:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=374763"},"modified":"2022-08-24T06:02:08","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T20:02:08","slug":"run-saipan-ecstatic-after-first-ever-10k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/run-saipan-ecstatic-after-first-ever-10k\/","title":{"rendered":"Run Saipan ecstatic after first-ever 10K"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_374751\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-374751\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Run-Saipan-pixwb-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Run-Saipan-pixwb-2.jpg\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-374751\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Run Saipan president Edward Dela Cruz Jr. said a total of 95 took part in last Saturday\u2019s Grotto 10K, which is also the non-profit running club\u2019s longest race to date. (JONATHAN IBAJAN)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Run Saipan president Edward Dela Cruz Jr. and the rest of the non-profit running club is in seventh heaven after conducting the Inaugural Grotto 10K last Saturday in Marpi.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you to everyone who showed\u00a0 up today who either helped or physically ran this race. Amazing\u00a0 job to our runners. All participants did a fantastic job navigating 6.2 miles on the course. A total of 95 participants for our first official 10K road race, also our longest to date!\u201d he said in a social media post.<\/p>\n<p>Dela Cruz also extended his thanks to sponsors and the organizations that helped make sure the participants of the Grotto 10K were taken care of.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThanks to Tan Siu Lin Foundation for the T-shirts, Latte Built for the refreshments, and MARPAC for the water. Thank you so much to our Run Saipan volunteer race staff members and Northern Marianas Athletics for executing today\u2019s race. Thank you also to Northern Marianas College Project Proa, Marianas High School Dolphin Battalion, and Saipan International School\u00a0 for manning the various stations and parking for our runners,\u201d he said.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_374759\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-374759\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Run-Saipan-pixwb-3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Run-Saipan-pixwb-3.jpg\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-374759\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Participants of Run Saipan\u2019s Inaugural Grotto 10K pose for a group photo after the event last Saturday in Marpi. (MARK RABAGO)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p>Last but not the least, Dela Cruz also reserved his biggest shout out to Grotto maintenance staff Max Aguon and the Division of Parks and Recreation for having the Grotto available on race day.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe parking lot was flooded the other day with mud and they cleaned it out to make sure no one slipped. Thank you Max. Thank you also to the Triathlon Association of the CNMI for lending us your medal podium,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from those already mentioned, Dela Cruz also thanked the Department of Public Safety, the Department\u00a0 of Fire Emergency Medical Services, <em>Saipan Tribune, Marianas Variety,<\/em> KSPN News, and DTE Endurance for making Run Saipan\u2019s Grotto 10K a success.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHope to see everyone next month for cross country and our ICC 5K at Tank Beach! This will be our first 5K in Kagman!\u201d he also said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Run Saipan president Edward Dela Cruz Jr. and the rest of the non-profit running club&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":374750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3877,38],"class_list":["post-374763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-marianas-variety","tag-saipan-tribune"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374763","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=374763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}