{"id":808,"date":"2017-03-29T15:40:30","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T22:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/?p=808"},"modified":"2017-03-29T15:40:30","modified_gmt":"2017-03-29T22:40:30","slug":"stefanie-bishop-one-tough-mudder-actually-the-toughest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/stefanie-bishop-one-tough-mudder-actually-the-toughest\/","title":{"rendered":"Stefanie Bishop &#8211; One Tough Mudder, actually, the Toughest!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-809\" src=\"https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Stef.jpg\" alt=\"Stefanie Bishop World's Toughest Mudder Champion 2016\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Stef.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Stef-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>Stefanie Bishop<\/strong> literally came out of nowhere to clinch the win at <strong>The World\u2019s Toughest Mudder<\/strong> in 2016. Few people knew who she was but in quick time, all learned she was a force to reckon with. Putting in 85 miles with time to walk a lap which could easily have resulted in 90 miles, she handily disassembled the field of competitors. An <strong>adventure racer<\/strong> at heart, Steff is one tough mudder when it comes to any event that takes you up to and beyond 24 hours. <strong>Richard Diaz<\/strong> caught up with her at the <strong>Toughest Mudder<\/strong> season opener in LA and in this interview Steff shares her story.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.naturalrunningcoach.net\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-695\" src=\"https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/banner-for-OCR-ClinicII.gif\" alt=\"banner-for-ocr-clinic\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/www.humanoctane.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-779\" src=\"https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DHP-Banner-V2.jpg\" alt=\"Human Octane makes a statement\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Stefanie Bishop &amp;#8211; One Tough Mudder, actually, the Toughest!\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2017-03-29T15:40:30-07:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT51M54S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Stefanie Bishop World's Toughest Mudder Champion 2016\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/the_natural_running_network\/content.blubrry.com\/the_natural_running_network\/SteffBisop.mp3\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentSize\" content=\"83.3\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4799\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-808-1\" 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\/SteffBisop.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/the_natural_running_network\/content.blubrry.com\/the_natural_running_network\/SteffBisop.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/the_natural_running_network\/content.blubrry.com\/the_natural_running_network\/SteffBisop.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\/SteffBisop.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/?powerpress_pinw=808-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\/SteffBisop.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"SteffBisop.mp3\">Download<\/a> | <a href=\"#\" class=\"powerpress_link_e\" title=\"Embed\" onclick=\"return powerpress_show_embed('808-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_embed_box\" id=\"powerpress_embed_808-podcast\" style=\"display: none;\"><input id=\"powerpress_embed_808-podcast_t\" type=\"text\" value=\"&lt;iframe width=&quot;320&quot; height=&quot;30&quot; src=&quot;https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/?powerpress_embed=808-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>Stefanie Bishop literally came out of nowhere to clinch the win at The World\u2019s Toughest Mudder in 2016. Few people knew who she was but in quick time, all learned she was a force to reckon with. Putting in 85 miles with time to walk a lap which could easily have resulted in 90 miles,&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"btn btn-primary\" href=\"https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/stefanie-bishop-one-tough-mudder-actually-the-toughest\/\">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":809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,22],"tags":[46,23,20,24,26,19,15,94],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808"}],"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=808"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":811,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions\/811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}