{"id":3343,"date":"2022-04-05T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.marathontours.com\/carmel-runner-completes-antarctica-half-marathon\/"},"modified":"2023-10-26T08:47:15","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T12:47:15","slug":"carmel-runner-completes-antarctica-half-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marathontours.com\/en-us\/carmel-runner-completes-antarctica-half-marathon\/","title":{"rendered":"Carmel Runner Completes Antarctica Half-Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Mohan Ambaty, completing a half-marathon in Antarctica wasn\u2019t nearly the most difficult part of his trip.   The physical challenge for the longtime runner seemed fairly routine compared to the emotional toll of frequent COVID-19 testing, precautionary quarantines and the knowledge that his quest to run a half-marathon on every continent could be deterred at any moment because of uncooperative weather or a positive test result. A few days of seasickness didn\u2019t help, either.   But on Jan. 28, Ambaty, 53, completed the Antarctica Half Marathon on King George Island in a time of 2:26:30, finishing second in the men\u2019s event. It was a race like no other, he said, devoid of crowds, water stations and music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[62,172,163,155],"class_list":["post-3343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-coverage","tag-antarctica","tag-antarctica-half-marathon","tag-antarctica-marathon","tag-seven-continents"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marathontours.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marathontours.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marathontours.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marathontours.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marathontours.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marathontours.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marathontours.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marathontours.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marathontours.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marathontours.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}