{"id":941,"date":"2017-10-12T15:21:07","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T22:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/?p=941"},"modified":"2017-10-12T15:21:07","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T22:21:07","slug":"allison-tai-ultra-beast-world-champ-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/allison-tai-ultra-beast-world-champ-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Allison Tai &#8211; Ultra Beast World Champ 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"s1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-942\" src=\"https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Allison-Tai-Ultra-Beast-World-Champ.jpg\" alt=\"Allison-Tai-Ultra-Beast-World-Champ\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Allison-Tai-Ultra-Beast-World-Champ.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Allison-Tai-Ultra-Beast-World-Champ-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 16px;\">It may seem like a play on words but <strong>Allison Tai<\/strong> is one <strong>Tough Mudder<\/strong> in every sense of the phrase.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Just recently coming off of the win at <strong>The Spartan Ultra Beast World Championships<\/strong> this year (2017), she is setting her sites on the win at <strong>The\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><strong>Toughest Mudder World Championship<\/strong> in a matter of weeks.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Her story is one of fables, having been taken out by a car while riding her bike, suffering a broken back, hip and arm to return to ultra endurance racing is simply amazing.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>We talk with Allison about her goals, her desire to break 100 miles at WTM and the competition.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Allison Tai &amp;#8211; 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