{"id":7418,"date":"2013-06-30T00:00:59","date_gmt":"2013-06-30T00:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.brethren.org\/news\/?p=7418"},"modified":"2018-11-13T04:27:44","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T04:27:44","slug":"bbt-5k-contributes-to-3000-miles-for-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2013\/bbt-5k-contributes-to-3000-miles-for-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"BBT 5k Contributes to on Earth Peace \u20183,000 Miles for Peace\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At 7 a.m. today, 37 walkers and 64 runners gathered in Freedom Regional Park in Charlotte, N.C., to participate in the 2013 Fitness Challenge at Annual Conference, sponsored by Brethren Benefit Trust.<\/p>\n<p>After a brief welcome, BBT president Nevin Dulabaum shared that this year\u2019s race had a unique component: it was a designated \u201c3,000 Miles for Peace\u201d event. All participants had the opportunity to log miles and raise dollars to donate to the Paul Ziegler Young Peacemakers Fund, which undergirds the peace-building efforts of On Earth Peace in memory of Paul Ziegler, a young man who planned to ride his bicycle across the country for peace, but never got the chance.<\/p>\n<div id=\"image-442273700\" class=\"templateComponent mceCmsPageletVA mceNonEditable\" style=\"float: left\">\n<table style=\"height: 399px\" width=\"426\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7419 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/10\/winners-of-the-fitness-challenge.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/10\/winners-of-the-fitness-challenge.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/10\/winners-of-the-fitness-challenge-300x166.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Photo by Glenn Riegel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><small><em>Winners of the Fitness Challenge walk\/run: (from left) Susan Fox fastest female walker, Chelsea Goss fastest female runner, Matthew Fahs-Brown fastest male runner, Don Shankster, male walker champion.<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cPaul was always my boy with a plan,\u201d wrote Paul Ziegler\u2019s mother in a letter to Fitness Challenge athletes. \u201cHe would often lean over in church and say, \u2018Why are we just sitting here? If everyone were out doing something for someone else, just think how much we could accomplish.\u2019 \u201d It was in that spirit of service and with the memory of Paul\u2019s determination that runners and walkers of all ages set out to each cover 3.1 miles for peace&#8211;as quickly as they could.<\/p>\n<p>The out-and-back route ran alongside beautiful ponds, crossed over creeks, and traversed under trees. Although it was humid, the cloud cover and early morning temperature made it a lovely day for a little exercise.<\/p>\n<div id=\"image-442273865\" class=\"templateComponent mceCmsPageletVA mceNonEditable\" style=\"float: right\">\n<table style=\"height: 99px\" width=\"396\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7420 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/10\/runners-in-the-brethren.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"354\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/10\/runners-in-the-brethren.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/10\/runners-in-the-brethren-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 354px) 100vw, 354px\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;padding-left: 30px\"><small>Photo by Glenn Riegel<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;padding-left: 30px\"><small><em>Runners in the Brethren Benefit Trust Fitness Challenge<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>Susan Fox was the fastest female walker, crossing the finish line at 39:50. Don Shankster, male walker champion, finished at 33:27. Chelsea Goss protected her title of fastest female runner, clocking in 24:36. And Matthew Fahs-Brown took home the prize for fastest male runner at 17:45.<\/p>\n<p>This annual event is well-loved for the fresh air, fellowship, and healthy competition, but this\u00a0 year\u2019s Fitness Challenge went a little further than past races&#8211;pounding the pavement for peace.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211;Mandy J. Garcia is Church of the Brethren staff for donor communications.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 7 a.m. today, 37 walkers and 64 runners gathered in Freedom Regional Park in Charlotte, N.C., to participate in the 2013 Fitness Challenge at Annual Conference, sponsored by Brethren Benefit Trust. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1258,160,103],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-7418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-annual-conference","tag-brethren-benefit-trust","tag-on-earth-peace"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7418"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13360,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7418\/revisions\/13360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7418"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=7418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}