{"id":276870,"date":"2026-09-01T23:28:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T23:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/276870\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T23:28:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T23:28:24","slug":"nearly-200-participants-complete-behrend-5k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/276870\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 200 participants complete Behrend 5K"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ERIE, Pa. \u2014 Nearly 200 people completed the Run for Women 5K run\/walk at Penn State Behrend on Aug. 30. The event, which is hosted by the Women\u2019s Engagement Council (WEC), is a celebration of movement, community and all levels of athletic ability.<\/p>\n<p>The youngest participant was 6 years old. The oldest was 83.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis event has such great energy,\u201d said Heather Cass, the race director and a WEC board member. \u201cIt\u2019s one of those mornings where you leave feeling genuinely happy that you showed up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Corrine Petrus, of Erie, ran the fastest time in the women\u2019s brackets. She finished the race in 22:21.93. Abigail Frederick, of Clarion, was second, finishing in 22:46.58.<\/p>\n<p>Landon White, of Albion, was the fastest male runner. He finished in 19:21.53.<\/p>\n<p>Several walkers pushed strollers. Others walked their dogs. All were invited to post-race servings of Berkey Creamery ice cream near the finish line, outside the Advanced Manufacturing and Innovation Center.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about the Run for Women 5K and other female-focused programming at Behrend, visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/behrend.psu.edu\/about-the-college\/college-leadership\/womens-engagement-council\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Women\u2019s Engagement Council webpage<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ERIE, Pa. \u2014 Nearly 200 people completed the Run for Women 5K run\/walk at Penn State Behrend on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-276870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276870","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=276870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}