{"id":180,"date":"2008-02-13T07:34:35","date_gmt":"2008-02-13T15:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/?p=180"},"modified":"2008-02-12T18:34:55","modified_gmt":"2008-02-13T02:34:55","slug":"huck-a-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2008\/huck-a-marathon\/","title":{"rendered":"Huck-a-Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/photos1.blogger.com\/img\/111\/1416\/320\/huckabee-running1.jpg?resize=180%2C180\" align=\"right\" height=\"180\" width=\"180\" \/>Presidential Candidate Mike Huckabee is also in the running for a marathon.  The 112th running of the Boston Marathon to be exact.  This is not his first marathon &#8211; he and his wife Janet ran the  Little Rock Marathon  and the Marine Corps Marathon in 2005.  Mike finished in 4:39 and 4:37 respectively, and his wife finished in 7:40 and 7:07.  In 2006 Mike ran the New York City Marathon in 5:33.  He didn&#8217;t run any in 2007 or 2008 yet.  (Results provided by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marathonguide.com\">MarathonGuide.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post reported in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/10\/23\/AR2005102301365.html\">2005 <\/a>that Huckabee passed on a Presidential Invitation for the Inauguration parade to go on a training run.  That&#8217;s a little over the top maybe? Huckabee was also named &#8220;Athlete of the Week&#8221; by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatf.org\/news\/view.aspx?DUid=USATF_2005_03_08_14_27_02\">USATF <\/a>in the same year.  Running&#8217;s governing body says the running governor inspired a 30% increase in marathon participation.  Huckabee lost 110 pounds and went from the couch to 5K to Marathon in two years!<\/p>\n<p>Huckabee is entering the Boston Marathon on a Charity Waiver provided through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamhoyt.com\/\">Team Hoyt<\/a> Racing. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wcsh6.com\/news\/article.aspx?storyid=79259\">source<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikehuckabeepresident2008.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/mike-huckabee-named-athlete-of-week.html\">Photo Credit <\/a><\/p>\n<p>[tags] Huckabee, Marathon, Mike Huckabee, Boston Marathon [\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presidential Candidate Mike Huckabee is also in the running for a marathon. The 112th running of the Boston Marathon to be exact. This is not his first marathon &#8211; he and his wife Janet ran the Little Rock Marathon and the Marine Corps Marathon in 2005. Mike finished in 4:39 and 4:37 respectively, and his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[28,4,14,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charity","category-information","category-marathon","category-usatf"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4iaAv-2U","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":810,"url":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2009\/usatf-mn-teamchampionship-schedule\/","url_meta":{"origin":180,"position":0},"title":"USATF-MN Team\/Championship Schedule","author":"crossn81","date":"February 11, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"The 2009 USATF-MN Team Circuit and Championship Race Schedule was voted on awhile back.\u00a0 Here is the schedule: March 22nd St. Patrick\u2019s Day Human Race 8k \u2013 St. Paul USATF Minnesota 8k Championship\u00a0 Last year's review I ran a 31:27 which is a post-college PR. 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