{"id":891907,"date":"2026-09-14T17:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T17:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/891907\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T17:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T17:12:12","slug":"former-bachelorette-contestant-zac-clark-caught-in-flood-during-half-marathon-in-new-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/891907\/","title":{"rendered":"Former &#8216;Bachelorette&#8217; contestant Zac Clark caught in flood during half marathon in New Jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"WABC logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/origin-wabc.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Monday, September 14, 2026 3:04PM<\/p>\n<p>Former &#8220;Bachelorette&#8221; contestant Zac Clark captured the video.<\/p>\n<p>Zac Clark<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">NEW JERSEY (WABC) &#8212; Runners in a half marathon in Paramus, New Jersey got more than they bargained for Sunday morning when heavy flooding turned parts of the course into a race through waist-deep water.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Video shared by former &#8220;Bachelorette&#8221; contestant Zac Clark shows runners pushing through floodwaters as they made their way along the route.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Clark says the challenging conditions didn&#8217;t slow him down too much.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">He still managed to finish third in his age group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Clark was picked by season 16 &#8220;Bachelorette&#8221; Taysha Adams and they got engaged, although they later broke up. He&#8217;s currently linked to another past &#8220;Bachelorette,&#8221; Kaitlyn Bristowe, although neither have confirmed an official romance.<\/p>\n<p>Runners in Paramus&#8217; Race Faster Half Marathon were caught in floodwaters Sunday as heavy rain submerged roads. Paramus got 4.92 inches of rain, according to the National Weather Service.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WABC-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monday, September 14, 2026 3:04PM Former &#8220;Bachelorette&#8221; contestant Zac Clark captured the video. Zac Clark NEW JERSEY (WABC)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":891908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[461532,64,63,134,427],"class_list":["post-891907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-461532","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=891907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/891908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=891907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=891907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=891907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}