{"id":124558,"date":"2023-10-17T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/?p=124558"},"modified":"2023-10-16T12:52:44","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T09:52:44","slug":"50-years-of-running-to-be-celebrated-in-saaremaa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/50-years-of-running-to-be-celebrated-in-saaremaa\/","title":{"rendered":"50 years of running to be celebrated in Saaremaa\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">This weekend, October 20-22, the popular<b> <\/b>annual<b> <\/b>Saaremaa three-day race will be held for the 50<sup>th<\/sup> time. More than 2000 runners are expected to compete in the 42 km long multi-day race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">The very first Saaremaa three-day race was held all the way back in 1974. This means that this year\u2019s edition is a special one, the 50<sup>th<\/sup> running of the annual race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">A lot has changed since the first races when women ran shorter distances than the men. This year both men and women will compete over the 41,195m race course.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">On the first and last day of the race, competitors will run through the historical streets of <a href=\"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/?p=12051\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Kuressaare<\/span><\/a>&nbsp;city centre and Roomassaare\u2019s distinctive juniper woodland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">On the second day, racers will compete over a 16 km course in the S\u00f5rve Peninsula, the southernmost part of the island, which is also home to the famous S\u00f5rve lighthouse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">As well as the three-day race for adults, there will also be a youth race, which will be run over shorter distances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">You can find out more about the event and register to take part on the official Saaremaa Three-Day Race <a href=\"https:\/\/www.saaremaajooks.ee\/#\/eng\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\">website<\/span><\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; This weekend, October 20-22, the popular annual Saaremaa three-day race will be held for the 50th time. More than &hellip; <span class=\"read-more-excerpt\">Read more<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":124559,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[13217,13583,15816,17727,19783,19784,19785],"class_list":["post-124558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leisure","tag-kuressaare-2","tag-saaremaa-2","tag-running","tag-race","tag-sorve-2","tag-saaremaa-three-day-race","tag-roomassaare"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124558"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124565,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124558\/revisions\/124565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}