{"id":2584,"date":"2012-10-13T20:41:34","date_gmt":"2012-10-14T01:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/?p=2584"},"modified":"2012-10-13T20:42:46","modified_gmt":"2012-10-14T01:42:46","slug":"crazy-sweeps-the-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/?p=2584","title":{"rendered":"Crazy sweeps the competition!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you go back and look at &#8220;Crazy&#8221; posts in the last few years, you&#8217;ll see a handful of entries about how my little brother Justin and Team WEDALI have kicked some major adventure racing ass.  Well, they can&#8217;t accomplish much more than they have in the last two weeks:<\/p>\n<p><i>In 2012, WEDALI became the first team to win both the USARA National and the Checkpoint Tracker Championships.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>(Admittedly, this is only Checkpoint Tracker&#8217;s third championship race, but given that WEDALI won it last year and this year, that&#8217;s pretty damn impressive.)<\/p>\n<p>So pretty much all I can say at this point is&#8230; wow.  And congratulations to Justin, his wife Molly and all of Team WEDALI!<\/p>\n<p>Just for fun, here&#8217;s a video of the team crossing the finish line this morning (and I&#8217;m proud to say that yes, that&#8217;s my little brother dropping his bike and cackling wildly&#8230; I can&#8217;t imagine why people might think we&#8217;re related).<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Team Gear Junkie\/WEDALI unofficial champions of Tecnu - Darn Tough 2012 USARA National Championship\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FaiZZUdadik?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you go back and look at &#8220;Crazy&#8221; posts in the last few years, you&#8217;ll see a handful of entries about how my little brother Justin and Team WEDALI have kicked some major adventure racing ass. Well, they can&#8217;t accomplish much more than they have in the last two weeks: In 2012, WEDALI became the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/?p=2584\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Crazy sweeps the competition!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[100,468,102,103,607,108,101],"class_list":["post-2584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-adventure-racing","tag-checkpoint-tracker","tag-justin","tag-molly","tag-national-champions","tag-usara-national-championship","tag-wedali"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1muBs-FG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2584"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2592,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2584\/revisions\/2592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}