{"id":258302,"date":"2026-06-07T17:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T17:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/258302\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T17:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T17:02:10","slug":"cap-city-runners-to-join-breaking-the-balance-project-set-to-run-450-miles-over-3-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/258302\/","title":{"rendered":"Cap City Runners to join Breaking the Balance Project; set to run 450 miles over 3 days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALBANY, NY (WRGB) \u2014 June is Men\u2019s Health Month, and a local group of runners is taking men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s health from Buffalo to New York City, all to support mental health awareness.<\/p>\n<p>A group of runners from Cap City Runners will be participating in the first-ever Breaking the Balance Project.<\/p>\n<p>The group of 12 runners will run 450 miles over three days, starting in Buffalo and ending in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p>The team is one of five from across New York participating; the goal of the run is to spread awareness of mental health and bring the community together through running.<\/p>\n<p>Cap City Runners&#8217; journey begins on Friday, June 12th, to support their mission. <a href=\"https:\/\/capcityrunners.org\/sponsorship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The running organization is also celebrating Juneteenth all month long. This year marks the 161st anniversary of Freedom Day.<\/p>\n<p>Runners are taking on the challenge to run or walk 161 miles in June; they encourage others to join in.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on Cap City Runners, click <a href=\"https:\/\/capcityrunners.org\/#home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALBANY, NY (WRGB) \u2014 June is Men\u2019s Health Month, and a local group of runners is taking men&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-258302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}