{"id":69290,"date":"2017-06-29T18:00:18","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T00:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/catching-up-with-adam-state-runner-ro-paschal\/"},"modified":"2017-06-30T00:00:18","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T00:00:18","slug":"catching-up-with-adam-state-runner-ro-paschal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/catching-up-with-adam-state-runner-ro-paschal\/","title":{"rendered":"Catching up with Adam State runner Ro Paschal"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=a514b94e-c59d-4e6b-b47f-2179a95b2143&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1843\" height=\"1515\" alt=\"Sydney Gidabuday and Ro Paschal head for the finish line in the Mancos Cowboy Half-Marathon on Saturday. The teammates at Adams State University finished first and second with times of 1:25.09 and 1:25.10, respectively.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Sydney Gidabuday and Ro Paschal head for the finish line in the Mancos Cowboy Half-Marathon on Saturday. The teammates at Adams State University finished first and second with times of 1:25.09 and 1:25.10, respectively.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Sam Green\/The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As a result of his athletic accomplishments, Paschal caught the eye of several members of the Adams State University track team\u2019s coaching staff and the Mancos native was eventually offered a spot on the school\u2019s cross-country and track teams.<\/p>\n<p>Although in some respects, the transition from a small Class 2A high school to a nationally recognized Division II college program provided difficult for Paschal, the hardworking runner enjoyed a successful freshman season, which included a fifth-place finish in the 1-mile run (4:30.37) at the ASU Early Grizzly Open on Dec. 3.<\/p>\n<p>Paschal also finished 89th out of 176 runners at the Fort Hays Tiger Open cross-country race in October with a time of (26:18.70).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think right now, because I\u2019m not as strong as the older guys, I like the mile the most because it\u2019s a nice balance of speed and endurance,\u201d Paschal said earlier this season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Currently in the Mancos area for the summer, Paschal is training several days a week and recently competed in the Cowboy Half-Marathon in Mancos, where he finished second with a time of 1 hour, 25 minutes and 10 seconds, to Adam State teammate Sydney Gidabuday\u2019s 1:25.09.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gidabuday and Ro Paschal head for the finish line in the Mancos Cowboy Half-Marathon on Saturday. The teammates at Adams State University finished first and second with times of 1:25.09 and 1:25.10, respectively.Sam Green\/The Journal As a result of his athletic accomplishments, Paschal caught the eye of several members of the Adams State University [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[992,3382,37,29,1914,346],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-69290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-college-sports","tag-cross-country","tag-mancos-high-school","tag-newsletter","tag-running","tag-sports"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69290","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=69290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69290"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=69290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}