{"id":1123,"date":"2018-08-29T18:25:07","date_gmt":"2018-08-30T01:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/?p=1123"},"modified":"2018-08-29T20:35:59","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T03:35:59","slug":"the-spartan-world-championship-dark-horse-rebecca-hammond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/the-spartan-world-championship-dark-horse-rebecca-hammond\/","title":{"rendered":"The Spartan World Championship &#8211; Dark Horse&#8230;Rebecca Hammond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1124\" src=\"https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Dark-horse.jpg\" alt=\"Dark-horse Rebecca Hammond\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Dark-horse.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Dark-horse-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>What seemed like completely out of nowhere, Rebecca Hammond came on to the Spartan OCR Elite field and made people take notice.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Its almost unheard of for anyone to walk into the Spartan North American Championship course with only 2 prior events under her belt and cause a stir.\u00a0 Yet, cause a stir she did.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Taking 2nd place among the most competitive pro\u2019s in the sport, she now sets her sights on the Spartan World Championships and no one is laughing.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>You\u2019ll have to listen to this episode to believe your ears.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Dark Horse you say?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>It will be interesting to see how it shakes out.<\/span><\/p>\n<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"The Spartan World Championship &amp;#8211; 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