{"id":424424,"date":"2024-11-06T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=424424"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"Annual-Turkey-Trot-set-for-Nov-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/Annual-Turkey-Trot-set-for-Nov-28\/","title":{"rendered":"Annual Turkey Trot set for Nov. 28"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Give thanks and trot your way up Saipan\u2019s highest peak in the Northern Marianas Athletics\u2019 Mt. Tapochau Turkey Trot 2024 on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, Nov. 24.<\/p>\n<p>The traditional and annual race is kicking off at 6am at Lower Base.<\/p>\n<p>Frozen turkeys await the fastest male and female runners in each age group.<\/p>\n<p>Registration on https:\/\/raceroster.com\/events\/2024\/94525\/mt-tapochao-turkey-trot-2024 for adults is $10, while it\u2019s $5 for 18 years and below.<\/p>\n<p>Run Saipan president Edward Dela Cruz Jr., whose club is helping organize the running event, said they are expecting over 100 runners to tackle the 4.2-mile uphill run. \u201cThere are many who have made it a family tradition for over 40 years or so,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Submit your photo during the race for a chance to win the \u201cFavorite photo\u201d award. Tag and follow @nmiathletics on Facebook and Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, student athlete Victor Nash Santos won first place overall with a time of 39:48:88, while Dr. Lily Muldoon was the fastest in the women\u2019s division at 44:46.38.<\/p>\n<p>The 2024 Turkey Trot is sponsored by Run Saipan, Joeten Enterprises, IT&amp;E CNMI, Triple J Group of Companies, MARPAC, and Saipan Vegas Resort.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/51821e8b6871cb8cdd86fc0182dd530f.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>Turkey Trot 2022 participants run out of the starting area on their way up to Mt. Tapochau.<\/p>\n<p>-RUN SAIPAN<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Give thanks and trot your way up Saipan\u2019s highest peak in the Northern Marianas Athletics\u2019&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-424424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424424","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\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}