{"id":3592,"date":"2010-01-24T04:04:14","date_gmt":"2010-01-24T09:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2010\/elite-runners\/"},"modified":"2013-03-10T12:48:18","modified_gmt":"2013-03-10T17:48:18","slug":"elite-runners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2010\/elite-runners\/","title":{"rendered":"Elite Runners"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='p_embed p_image_embed'>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Vega\" height=\"318\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/getfile5.posterous.com\/getfile\/files.posterous.com\/teamcross365\/8TgNTVnluF6UdJDZUM86yCWDEFLSUyV8AUt9Vh1GXChgcNtVdv3gMc5eCMhn\/vega.jpg?resize=424%2C318\" width=\"424\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>Today as the 2010 MDRA Annual Party. \u00a0Part of the event includes giving out money to elite MN runners through MEADP. \u00a0This is Antonio Vega, a Team USA &#8211; Minnesota runner who just happened to win last week&#39;s USA Half-Marathon Championships.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today as the 2010 MDRA Annual Party. \u00a0Part of the event includes giving out money to elite MN runners through MEADP. \u00a0This is Antonio Vega, a Team USA &#8211; Minnesota runner who just happened to win last week&#39;s USA Half-Marathon Championships.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[629],"tags":[752],"class_list":["post-3592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-629","tag-752"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4iaAv-VW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":257,"url":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2008\/one-mile-25000\/","url_meta":{"origin":3592,"position":0},"title":"One mile &#8211; $25,000","author":"crossn81","date":"May 8, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"That is what is happening tonight in downtown Minneapolis at the Medtronic TC 1 Mile. 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