{"id":69798,"date":"2017-07-31T15:04:17","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T21:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mancos-runners-compete-in-trail-championship\/"},"modified":"2017-07-31T21:04:17","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T21:04:17","slug":"mancos-runners-compete-in-trail-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mancos-runners-compete-in-trail-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Mancos runners compete in trail championship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=80c232eb-62ae-4fa8-b309-49b2c24e951f&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2667\" alt=\"Teslin Stecher, Caleb Yoder and Simon Kearns, of Mancos High School, finished fifth in the National High School Trail Championship in Salida on July 29.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Teslin Stecher, Caleb Yoder and Simon Kearns, of Mancos High School, finished fifth in the National High School Trail Championship in Salida on July 29.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of Tom Yoder<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>For members of Mancos High School\u2019s cross-country and track teams, offseason training has become a consistent ingredient to success.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, when Simon Kearns, Teslin Stechar, and Caleb Yoder heard about the first annual National High School Trail Championship, there was little doubt that the three high school runners would join.<\/p>\n<p>Billed as a 5-mile trail race featuring switchbacks, climbs and descents through the Rocky Mountains, the one-day event took place near Salida on July 29.  According to event organizers, the race was open to all current high school athletes. Individual racers or three-person teams could sign up.<\/p>\n<p>Leading the way for Mancos was soon-to-be senior Simon Kearns, who placed fifth overall with a time of 35:57. Kearns\u2019 time was especially impressive given that he did not compete in track and field last spring while attending the High Mountain Institute in Leadville.<\/p>\n<p>Also competing for the Bluejays was Teslin Stecher, who parlayed a summer of cross training in the pool as a member of the Durango Swim Club into a 17th-place finish (38:38).  Rounding out the Mancos competitors was Caleb Yoder, who finished 26th overall in a time of 41:28.<\/p>\n<p>Fort Collins High School standout James Gregory finished first in the competition with a time of 34:33. Thirty-four total runners participated in the event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe race was on a hilly, muddy course on and around S Mountain,\u201d said Mancos High School cross-country and track coach, Brady Archer.  \u201cIt rained the entire race, and it had been raining most of the day before so it was very wet.  It was a good chance for (our runners) to see where they are fitness-wise against some good teams from across the state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With their final summer training race behind them, all three Mancos runners will look ahead to the upcoming cross-country season, which will begin in less than a month.  Last year, the Mancos boys team finished fifth overall in Colorado\u2019s 2A classification.  With several standout runners returning, the Bluejays will look to move up the standings this upcoming year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kearns, Stecher and Yoder finish fifth as a team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[37,29,594,1916],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-69798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-mancos-high-school","tag-newsletter","tag-track-and-field","tag-trail-running"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69798","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=69798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69798"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=69798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}