{"id":30971,"date":"2020-10-27T16:41:29","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T20:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/?p=30971"},"modified":"2021-09-01T14:26:35","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T18:26:35","slug":"varsity-cross-country-tackles-highland-trail-5k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/2020\/10\/varsity-cross-country-tackles-highland-trail-5k\/","title":{"rendered":"Varsity Cross Country Tackles Highland Trail 5K"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eight members of the EMS varsity cross-country team took part in a COVID-style <a href=\"https:\/\/event.auctria.com\/4d704ed9-7f3d-4245-b047-c4598efea151\/aa6cd270-8751-11e9-a741-3fcfcb35cbb0\">5K trail walk\/run last weekend at Highland Retreat Center<\/a> in Bergton, Virginia. Colorful scenery provided a beautiful backdrop for this single \u201ccompetition\u201d of the season. <\/p>\n<p>The trail walk\/run 5K was available for the month of October to anyone. Participants paid a registration fee and made additional donations to support the camp, a place beloved to many EMS students for personal and school activities.<\/p>\n<p>The course was challenging, with about 500 ft. of elevation, said Chafin Vrolijk, coach. Most of the elevation was in the first mile as runners started from the lower field by the Youth Office and ran up the mountain to the climbing wall. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven though this was a difficult course, the team had a lot of fun and enjoyed the challenge that it provided,\u201d she said. \u201cMany claimed this was the hardest 5K course we have run.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur team has been really privileged to be able to practice with social distancing guidelines  since the beginning of August,\u201d says Vrolijk, noting that some runners began their training back in May or June. \u201cThey\u2019ve shown tremendous effort and determination despite the lack of competitions this season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Participants and their times were;<br \/>\nJakob Gerlach \u201823: 19:55<br \/>\nLuke Rogers \u201823: 21:41<br \/>\nPhil Diener \u201822: 22:45<br \/>\nChristian Meixner \u201824: 22:50<br \/>\nHalie Mast \u201821: 23:20<br \/>\nIsaac Sachs \u201825: 26:25<br \/>\nKarla Hostetter \u201821: 28:07<br \/>\nSam Groff \u201821: 33:46<\/p>\n<p>Based on the times posted on the event website, Jakob Gerlach has the fastest time for the courts. The top six fastest times reported are all EMHS runners.  <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight members of the EMS varsity cross-country team took part in a COVID-style 5K trail walk\/run last weekend at Highland Retreat Center in Bergton, Virginia. Colorful scenery provided a beautiful backdrop for this single \u201ccompetition\u201d of the season. The trail walk\/run 5K was available for the month of October to anyone. Participants paid a registration\u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":30972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[63,379],"class_list":["post-30971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-cross-country"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30971"}],"curies":[{"name":"gracias","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}