{"id":67335,"date":"2016-12-25T23:10:31","date_gmt":"2016-12-26T06:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/teslin-stecher-wins-marathon\/"},"modified":"2016-12-26T06:10:31","modified_gmt":"2016-12-26T06:10:31","slug":"teslin-stecher-wins-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/teslin-stecher-wins-marathon\/","title":{"rendered":"Teslin Stecher wins marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><!-- gallery:e562d8a5-edbc-436a-968d-a1d076209e42 --><\/p>\n<p>Teslin Stecher is used to running 3.1 miles.<\/p>\n<p>The Mancos sophomore has been a key contributor to the Blue Jays cross-country team for the past two seasons.<\/p>\n<p>This fall, Stecher ran his best 5K time at the Class 2A Region 4 Championship in Delta, finishing the race in 17:08.22 to place seventh and help the Blue Jays win the regional title.<\/p>\n<p>The following week, he finished the Class 2A State Championships race in 18:11.23 to place 21st as the Jays took fifth as a team.<\/p>\n<p>But after the 2016 season, he began upping his mileage.<\/p>\n<p>And on Sunday, Dec. 10, Stecher competed in the inaugural Four Corners Quad Keyah Marathon Challenge.<\/p>\n<p>The Quad Keyah Series and Navajo Parks Race Series, organized by the Navajo Nation based nonprofit organization Y.E.S. for Dine\u2019 Bikeyah (NavajoYES), featured a marathon and half-marathon race each day from Thursday through Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>And each day, the race began and ended in a different four corner state.<\/p>\n<p>Stecher ran in Sunday\u2019s marathon, beginning and ending in New Mexico, and he finished in 3 hours 36 minutes and 4 seconds to win the men\u2019s division and set the course record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>sophomore sets course record at Four Corners Quad Keyah Marathon Challenge<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[83],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-67335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-mancos"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67335"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=67335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}