{"id":42749,"date":"2011-05-10T10:10:08","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T14:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=42749"},"modified":"2018-06-04T09:21:54","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T13:21:54","slug":"gomez-05-boston-marathon-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2011\/05\/10\/gomez-05-boston-marathon-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Press Herald notes top Maine finish by Gomez &#039;05 at Boston Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The <\/em><em>Portland Press Herald <\/em>and the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/new.bangordailynews.com\/2011\/04\/18\/sports\/piers-gomez-lead-maine%E2%80%99s-boston-marathon-pack\/\">Bangor Daily News<\/a><\/em>, among other outlets, report that Maine&#8217;s fastest finisher at the Boston Marathon on April 18 was Robert Gomez &#8217;05, who completed his Boston debut in 2:24:18 to place 35th among men. Gomez, who started with the elite runners<span>, told<\/span> the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/sports\/and-now-the-rest-of-the-story_2011-04-17.html\">Press Herald<\/a> prior to the race that<span> he was &#8220;just excited to experience it regardless of the outcome.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/05\/gomez-xc255.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"590\" height=\"393\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/05\/gomez-xc255.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large\" alt=\"gomez-xc255\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Gomez finished 10th in the Houston Marathon in January in 2:23:02  and said he was a little apprehensive about running another marathon so soon  afterward. &#8220;Elite status or not, I&#8217;ve always wanted to run the Boston  Marathon. I think it&#8217;s an achievement for anyone who runs it and  completes it.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Gomez is a native of Waldoboro, Maine, now working at General Dynamics  in Saco while pursuing a master&#8217;s degree in organic chemistry  from the University of Maine. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/sports\/and-now-the-rest-of-the-story_2011-04-17.html\">View advance story from the <em>Press Herald<\/em>, April 17, 2011. <\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Portland Press Herald and the Bangor Daily News, among other outlets,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[7,24,11009],"tags":[11051],"class_list":["post-42749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-athletics","category-the-college","tag-bates-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42749"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86633,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42749\/revisions\/86633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}