{"id":36262,"date":"2025-11-11T18:15:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T18:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/36262\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T18:15:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T18:15:05","slug":"at-40-years-young-michael-cassidy-stuns-in-26-2-miler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/36262\/","title":{"rendered":"At 40 years young, Michael Cassidy stuns in 26.2 miler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"articleLabel__link\" class=\"articleLabel__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.silive.com\/recsports\/\" title=\"Navigate to Adult Rec Sports\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Adult Rec Sports<\/a>Updated: Nov. 11, 2025, 12:09 p.m.|Published: Nov. 11, 2025, 12:09 p.m.<img fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" alt=\"Michael Cassidy Marathon\" class=\"hero-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.silive.com\/resizer\/v2\/6WGHVHXE6JASNGVUJ6X2AJ6EBI.JPG?auth=41c32eebbb085e0d6aee4c4319231f8eba5ca18dd9ae8496d477e419ead4b822&amp;width=1280&amp;smart=true&amp;quality=90\"  \/>40-year old Michael Cassidy poses with his well-earned medal at last Sunday&#8217;s CNO Financial Indianapolis Monumental Marathon.Staten Island Running Association<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"XRUDB7QZQJGEZK5WZG7ZV3WMRU\">In the Academy Award-winning movie \u201cThe Natural,\u201d fictitious aging baseball star Roy Hobbs (played by Robert Redford) dramatically shows in the film\u2019s climax that he still \u201chad it,\u201d leaving movie-goers in awe of his athletic performance. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"63RXCCFIANEVRP6Z7HZICGOND4\">Forty-year-old Staten Islander Michael Cassidy has now completed a \u201cRoy Hobbs\u201d performance as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--center skimlinks\">If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/user-agreement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/privacy-policy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adult Rec SportsUpdated: Nov. 11, 2025, 12:09 p.m.|Published: Nov. 11, 2025, 12:09 p.m.40-year old Michael Cassidy poses with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-36262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36262","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=36262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}