{"id":3198,"date":"2016-01-07T10:37:48","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T15:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mansfieldplumbing.com\/?p=3198"},"modified":"2015-12-23T16:09:11","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T21:09:11","slug":"mansfield-plumbing-legacy-employee-wins-100-mile-ultra-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mansfieldplumbing.com\/blog\/mansfield-plumbing-legacy-employee-wins-100-mile-ultra-marathon\/","title":{"rendered":"Legacy Employee Wins 100-Mile Ultra Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>17 hours and four minutes<\/strong>.\u00a0 That&#8217;s the course record-breaking time it took Nicholas Kopp to run the 100-mile &#8220;7th Annual Oil Creek 100&#8221; ultra marathon in October.<\/p>\n<p>Kopp, 23, who grew up in Loudonville, Ohio and worked several summers at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mansfieldplumbing.com\">Mansfield Plumbing <\/a>while in school, is a legacy employee for the company.\u00a0 His grandfather, uncle and father have all worked for the company over the years.\u00a0 John Kopp, Nicholas&#8217;s father, recently celebrated his 27th anniversary with Mansfield Plumbing and works in the Grade and Pack Department as a grader.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mansfieldplumbing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Mansfield-Pic-Nicholas-Kopp-finish-line.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3199\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3199 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mansfieldplumbing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Mansfield-Pic-Nicholas-Kopp-finish-line-300x216.jpg\" alt=\"Mansfield - Pic - Nicholas Kopp finish line\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mansfieldplumbing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Mansfield-Pic-Nicholas-Kopp-finish-line-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mansfieldplumbing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Mansfield-Pic-Nicholas-Kopp-finish-line-600x433.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.mansfieldplumbing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Mansfield-Pic-Nicholas-Kopp-finish-line-768x554.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mansfieldplumbing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Mansfield-Pic-Nicholas-Kopp-finish-line-1024x739.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mansfieldplumbing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Mansfield-Pic-Nicholas-Kopp-finish-line-1400x1010.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/www.mansfieldplumbing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Mansfield-Pic-Nicholas-Kopp-finish-line-900x649.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We definitely have family history at Mansfield,&#8221; says Kopp. &#8220;I grew up around the plant. During high school I ran hurdles, which ignited my passion for running. Then when I turned 20 I started training and running the ultra marathons.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the 7th Annual Oil Creek 100, Kopp beat the previous course record for the event by 21 minutes. &#8220;This was my personal best time &#8230; I felt really good and ran continually from 5am to around 10pm,&#8221; says Kopp, a former Mansfield Plumbing employee. &#8220;There were about 150 people in the race and we ran mostly on remote trails through the Allegheny Mountains.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Next up for the athlete is the Ouray 100 in Colorado in July. &#8220;That&#8217;s an entirely different kind of race because of the terrain and the altitude,&#8221; says Kopp. &#8220;I&#8217;ve already started training for that event!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>17 hours and four minutes.\u00a0 That&#8217;s the course record-breaking time it took Nicholas Kopp to run the 100-mile &#8220;7th Annual Oil Creek 100&#8221; ultra marathon in October. Kopp, 23, who grew up in Loudonville, Ohio and worked several summers at Mansfield Plumbing while in school, is a legacy employee for the company.\u00a0 His grandfather, uncle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employees","category-mansfield-plumbing"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mansfieldplumbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mansfieldplumbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mansfieldplumbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mansfieldplumbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mansfieldplumbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3198"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mansfieldplumbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3224,"href":"https:\/\/www.mansfieldplumbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198\/revisions\/3224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mansfieldplumbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mansfieldplumbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mansfieldplumbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}