{"id":1162,"date":"2017-10-09T23:09:04","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T23:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/life\/two-california-residents-win-long-beach-marathon-also-supporters-get-creative\/"},"modified":"2017-10-09T23:09:04","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T23:09:04","slug":"two-california-residents-win-long-beach-marathon-also-supporters-get-creative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/two-california-residents-win-long-beach-marathon-also-supporters-get-creative","title":{"rendered":"Two California Residents win Long Beach Marathon\u2014also, Supporters Get Creative"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The 33rd annual JetBlue Long Beach Marathon held much excitement (and anxiety) for runners as well as for spectators over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Hailing from Simi Valley, Liz Camy-blackwell, 34, finished first among females with a finish time of 2 hours, 47 minutes and 30 seconds. Patrick Fernandez, 30, of La Verne, clocked in at 2 hours, 25 minutes and 39 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>While these two California residents scored the top prizes for the full marathon portion of the event, the real winners\u2014in this reporter\u2019s humble opinion\u2014were the supporters who got creative with their sideline signs.<\/p>\n<p>Check out some of posters made made to motivate the very tired participants:<\/p>\n<p> <center> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Need some <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MondayMotivation?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MondayMotivation<\/a> for your workout? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LBMarathon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@LBMarathon<\/a> runners received paw-sitive support from Shelby at mile 20! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/fitspo?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#fitspo<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/runchat?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#runchat<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8fxmPoTNgg\">pic.twitter.com\/8fxmPoTNgg<\/a><\/p>\n<p> \u2014 Rocky Kanaka (@RockyKanaka) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RockyKanaka\/status\/917504138316939265?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 9, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script charset=\"utf-8\" type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\"><\/script> <\/center><center> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Some of our favorite signs from our cheering stations for the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LBMarathon?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LBMarathon<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LBMarathon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@LBMarathon<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1VwBE4FGVK\">pic.twitter.com\/1VwBE4FGVK<\/a><\/p>\n<p> \u2014 CSULB ASI (@CSULBASI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CSULBASI\/status\/917082521447284736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 8, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script charset=\"utf-8\" type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\"><\/script> <\/center><center> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Supporters for half marathoner Hiroyuki Kayama made a sign that says &#8220;I want to marry somebody&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LBMarathon2017?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LBMarathon2017<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RunLongBeach?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#RunLongBeach<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LBMarathon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@LBMarathon<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RyA8lFptv2\">pic.twitter.com\/RyA8lFptv2<\/a><\/p>\n<p> \u2014 Valerie Osier (@ValerieOsier) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ValerieOsier\/status\/917057509881298944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 8, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script charset=\"utf-8\" type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\"><\/script> <\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 33rd annual JetBlue Long Beach Marathon held much excitement (and anxiety) for runners as well as for spectators over the weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":66622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[637],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hi-lo","tag-long-beach-marathon","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1162"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=1162"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}