{"id":169,"date":"2013-06-21T15:47:28","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T20:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2011classnews\/?p=169"},"modified":"2014-07-09T10:08:31","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T15:08:31","slug":"maggie-byrne-completes-ultramarathon-in-nicaragua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2011classnews\/2013\/06\/21\/maggie-byrne-completes-ultramarathon-in-nicaragua\/","title":{"rendered":"Maggie Byrne &#8217;11 Completes Ultramarathon in Nicaragua"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2011classnews\/files\/2013\/06\/06-alum-byrne-marathon-350.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-170 aligncenter\" alt=\"06-alum-byrne-marathon-350\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2011classnews\/files\/2013\/06\/06-alum-byrne-marathon-350-300x275.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2011classnews\/files\/2013\/06\/06-alum-byrne-marathon-350-300x275.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2011classnews\/files\/2013\/06\/06-alum-byrne-marathon-350.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iwu.edu\/news\/2013\/06-byrne-completes-fuego-agua-marathon.html\">Maggie Byrne<\/a> completed Fuego y Agua,a rigorous ultramarathon in a scenic Nicaragua, overlooking tropical birds and howler monkeys. \u00a0Byrne finished the race in nine hours and 33 minutes, coming in 10th position among the women. \u201cIt felt a level of energy I never imagined possible,\u201d she said.\u00a0A cross-country runner at Illinois Wesleyan University, Byrne from Chicago, graduated summa cum laude with an educational study major with a double minor in English and Spanish. She is now a Peace Corps volunteer and works as an environmental educator in Nicaragua.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Byrne teaching 6th grade students<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2011classnews\/files\/2013\/06\/06-alum-byrne-classroom-nicaragua-250.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-173\" alt=\"06-alum-byrne-classroom-nicaragua-250\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2011classnews\/files\/2013\/06\/06-alum-byrne-classroom-nicaragua-250.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"188\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u00a0Byrne with an eco-stove she built<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2011classnews\/files\/2013\/06\/06-alum-byrne-eco-stove-she-built-200.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-175\" alt=\"06-alum-byrne-eco-stove-she-built-200\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2011classnews\/files\/2013\/06\/06-alum-byrne-eco-stove-she-built-200.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maggie Byrne completed Fuego y Agua,a rigorous ultramarathon in a scenic Nicaragua, overlooking tropical birds and howler monkeys. \u00a0Byrne finished the race in nine hours and 33 minutes, coming in 10th position among the women. \u201cIt felt a level of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2011classnews\/2013\/06\/21\/maggie-byrne-completes-ultramarathon-in-nicaragua\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2011classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2011classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2011classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2011classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2011classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2011classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2011classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions\/325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2011classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2011classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2011classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}