{"id":929654,"date":"2026-10-12T01:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T01:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/929654\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T01:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T01:30:09","slug":"a-city-on-the-run-montreal-marathon-draws-thousands-over-thanksgiving-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/929654\/","title":{"rendered":"A city on the run: Montreal marathon draws thousands over Thanksgiving weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Months of training, an early Sunday alarm and 42.2 kilometres of running. The reward, for some, was a medal. For others, a sandwich or a well-earned poutine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Around Parc Maisonneuve, where thousands crossed <a href=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/entertainment-life\/music\/dumas-montreal-marathon-mont-royal-heated-rivalry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">the Montreal marathon<\/a> finish line Sunday, the celebrations took different forms. Runners stretched out on benches, reunited with friends or posed for photographs, while the cheers of spectators carried through the surrounding streets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some who had already finished returned to the course to encourage those still going, occasionally running alongside them for part of the final stretch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Months of training, an early Sunday alarm and 42.2 kilometres of running. The reward, for some, was a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":929655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-929654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=929654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/929655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}