{"id":514,"date":"2016-01-13T13:49:56","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T21:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/?p=514"},"modified":"2016-01-13T13:49:56","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T21:49:56","slug":"an-inside-look-at-battle-frog-w-christopher-acord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/an-inside-look-at-battle-frog-w-christopher-acord\/","title":{"rendered":"An Inside Look at Battle Frog w\/ Christopher Acord"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-515\" src=\"https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Chris.jpg\" alt=\"Christopher Acord \" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Chris.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Chris-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>Battle Frog<\/strong> is quickly becoming the <strong>OCR Series<\/strong> of choice among discerning competitors in the world of <strong>Obstacle Racing<\/strong>. <strong>Christopher Acord<\/strong> is Battle Frog\u2019s chief architect\/Race Director, fondly nicknamed \u201cThe Beard\u201d for obvious reasons.\u00a0 We thought it was time to reach out to Christopher to gain some insight into the planning and development of \u201cthe other OCR events\u201d. This interview was highly enlightening and for those who have never competed in a Battle Frog Event, this is clearly a show you don\u2019t want to miss!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktape.com\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-457 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Rocktape728.jpg\" alt=\"Rocktape728\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Rocktape728.jpg 728w, https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Rocktape728-600x74.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Rocktape728-300x37.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 728px) 100vw, 728px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"An Inside Look at Battle Frog w\/ Christopher Acord\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2016-01-13T13:49:56-08:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT54M53S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Battle Frog is quickly becoming the OCR Series in the world of Obstacle Racing. Christopher Acord is Battle Frog\u2019s chief architect\/Race Director, we thought it was time to reach out to Christopher to gain some insight into the planning and development of \u201cthe other OCR events\u201d.\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/the_natural_running_network\/content.blubrry.com\/the_natural_running_network\/Acord.mp3\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentSize\" content=\"50.3\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5824\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-514-1\" 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\/Acord.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/the_natural_running_network\/content.blubrry.com\/the_natural_running_network\/Acord.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/the_natural_running_network\/content.blubrry.com\/the_natural_running_network\/Acord.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\/Acord.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/?powerpress_pinw=514-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\/Acord.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Acord.mp3\">Download<\/a> | <a href=\"#\" class=\"powerpress_link_e\" title=\"Embed\" onclick=\"return powerpress_show_embed('514-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_embed_box\" id=\"powerpress_embed_514-podcast\" style=\"display: none;\"><input id=\"powerpress_embed_514-podcast_t\" type=\"text\" value=\"&lt;iframe width=&quot;320&quot; height=&quot;30&quot; src=&quot;https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/?powerpress_embed=514-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>Battle Frog is quickly becoming the OCR Series of choice among discerning competitors in the world of Obstacle Racing. Christopher Acord is Battle Frog\u2019s chief architect\/Race Director, fondly nicknamed \u201cThe Beard\u201d for obvious reasons.\u00a0 We thought it was time to reach out to Christopher to gain some insight into the planning and development of \u201cthe&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"btn btn-primary\" href=\"https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/an-inside-look-at-battle-frog-w-christopher-acord\/\">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":515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,83,22],"tags":[25,34,31,23,27,24,26],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514"}],"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=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":517,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions\/517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}