{"id":176853,"date":"2026-04-26T22:53:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T22:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/176853\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T22:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T22:53:07","slug":"runners-hit-the-streets-for-annual-st-lukes-half-marathon-in-allentown-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/176853\/","title":{"rendered":"Runners hit the streets for Annual St. Luke\u2019s Half Marathon in Allentown | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; Runners competed in the Annual Saint Luke&#8217;s Half Marathon and 5k in Allentown on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>They stepped off near William Allen High School and crossed the finish line at J. Birney Crum Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>More than 1,700 people participated in the half marathon.<\/p>\n<p>Caleb Hershey, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, had the best time for the men&#8217;s race.<\/p>\n<p>He edged out last year&#8217;s winner Matt Gillette, of Allentown, by only a few seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Olivia Hoeing, also of Allentown, took the top spot in the women&#8217;s race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; Runners competed in the Annual Saint Luke&#8217;s Half Marathon and 5k in Allentown on Sunday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,79077],"class_list":["post-176853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-saint-luke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}