{"id":195194,"date":"2026-02-26T18:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T18:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/195194\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T18:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T18:48:08","slug":"bakersfield-marathon-in-need-of-volunteers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/195194\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakersfield Marathon in need of volunteers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 9th annual Bakersfield Marathon is expecting over 5,000 runners for its event on March 22 and <a href=\"https:\/\/runsignup.com\/Race\/Volunteer\/CA\/Bakersfield\/BakersfieldMarathonandHalf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">volunteers are needed.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bakersfield Marathon volunteer coordinator Cornelio Gutierrez-Lozano says<a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/bakersfield-marathon-set-for-sunday-march-22-organizers-seek-700-volunteers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> approximately 700 volunteers are needed<\/a> to support various roles before, during and after the race, as well as the Health &amp; Wellness Expo on March 21 and race day activities on March 22.<\/p>\n<p>Race day includes the marathon, half marathon, 10K and 6K fun run events.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Donovan Gabriel, founder of the IbProFun Run Club, spoke to Eyewitness News about training for the marathon and the need for volunteers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 9th annual Bakersfield Marathon is expecting over 5,000 runners for its event on March 22 and volunteers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-195194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}