{"id":376,"date":"2015-08-19T15:35:36","date_gmt":"2015-08-19T22:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/?p=376"},"modified":"2015-09-11T16:22:38","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T23:22:38","slug":"the-british-ocr-invasion-namely-jonathan-albon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/the-british-ocr-invasion-namely-jonathan-albon\/","title":{"rendered":"The British OCR Invasion, Namely &#8211; Jonathan Albon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ja.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-377\" src=\"https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ja-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Jonathan Albon\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>In case you have not heard, <strong>World OCR Championship<\/strong> Season is upon us. Sure, maybe you don\u2019t follow <strong>Spartan Racing<\/strong> or give a hoot about the fastest growing sport in the world. However if you do\u2026 there is a lot of excitement afoot. Reigning Spartan World and <strong>OCR World Champion<\/strong> <strong>Jonathan Albon<\/strong> is looking to double up and defend both of his titles.\u00a0 Who has the nuts to beat him?\u00a0 <strong>Ryan Atkins<\/strong>, maybe a dark horse in <strong>Hunter McIntyre<\/strong>?\u00a0 I made the call to check up on Jonathan to see how his preparations are coming, asked what his game plan is and why he poses such a threat.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Here is a guy with little state side exposure, holds two of the three titles and his been training and racing abroad. Aside from his humble disposition he has the tools and the grit to take it all find out why.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktape.com\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-331\" src=\"https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/RT-728.jpg\" alt=\"Rocktape.com\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/RT-728.jpg 728w, https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/RT-728-600x74.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/RT-728-300x37.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 728px) 100vw, 728px\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"The British OCR Invasion, Namely &amp;#8211; Jonathan Albon\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2015-08-19T15:35:36-07:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT48M50S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Jonathan Albon, current Spartan and OCR World Champion talks about his return to America to defend his titles.\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/the_natural_running_network\/content.blubrry.com\/the_natural_running_network\/JonAlbon.mp3\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentSize\" content=\"44.7\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3976\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-376-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/the_natural_running_network\/content.blubrry.com\/the_natural_running_network\/JonAlbon.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/the_natural_running_network\/content.blubrry.com\/the_natural_running_network\/JonAlbon.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/the_natural_running_network\/content.blubrry.com\/the_natural_running_network\/JonAlbon.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/the_natural_running_network\/content.blubrry.com\/the_natural_running_network\/JonAlbon.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/?powerpress_pinw=376-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/the_natural_running_network\/content.blubrry.com\/the_natural_running_network\/JonAlbon.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"JonAlbon.mp3\">Download<\/a> | <a href=\"#\" class=\"powerpress_link_e\" title=\"Embed\" onclick=\"return powerpress_show_embed('376-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_embed_box\" id=\"powerpress_embed_376-podcast\" style=\"display: none;\"><input id=\"powerpress_embed_376-podcast_t\" type=\"text\" value=\"&lt;iframe width=&quot;320&quot; height=&quot;30&quot; src=&quot;https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/?powerpress_embed=376-podcast&amp;amp;powerpress_player=mediaelement-audio&quot; title=&quot;Blubrry Podcast Player&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; scrolling=&quot;no&quot;&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\" onclick=\"javascript: this.select();\" onfocus=\"javascript: this.select();\" style=\"width: 70%;\" readOnly><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/subscribe-to-podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p><!--powerpress_player--><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you have not heard, World OCR Championship Season is upon us. 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Reigning Spartan World and OCR World Champion Jonathan Albon is looking to&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"btn btn-primary\" href=\"https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/the-british-ocr-invasion-namely-jonathan-albon\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,22],"tags":[55,71,18,23,27,30,39,20,24,26],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":407,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions\/407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}