{"id":12081,"date":"2021-07-27T20:22:39","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T20:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.incirliseviye.com\/?p=12081"},"modified":"2021-07-27T20:22:39","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T20:22:39","slug":"mary-beth-ellis-to-race-challenge-denmark-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/?p=12081","title":{"rendered":"Mary Beth Ellis to race Challenge Denmark 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p ><strong>Mary Beth Ellis, one of the toughest female athletes in long-distance triathlon, has signed up to race next year\u2019s Challenge Denmark on June 13th, 2015.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>    Advertisement<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p >\u201cI am so excited to race Challenge Denmark,\u201d she says. \u201cI have been searching for a race in Denmark the last few years and have long desired to visit the country.\u00a0 As soon as I saw the Challenge Denmark race announced, I was sold!\u201d says Mary Beth.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p >\u201cThe race not only offers a spectacular and exciting point-to-point course with incredible scenery but also promises to be super fast, \u201c she adds, referring to the flat bike course between the city Herning where the swim takes place, and the city of Billund where T2 is located. On a good day where the wind comes from north-west, the Challenge Denmark team promises one of the fastest bike courses ever seen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div    >\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p >\u201cI can\u2019t wait to test myself against a stellar female field and enjoy spending some time after the race in Denmark\u201d says Mary Beth. \u201cMy husband, who races triathlons for fun, won\u2019t miss this trip and is planning to race in the age group ranks as well to try to get his best time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p >Mary Beth \u2013 known as \u201cTriathlon\u2019s Honey Badger\u201d due to her tenacity \u2013 has racked up eight Ironman wins since 2011, never finishing off the podium outside Kona. She suffered a broken collar bone in a bike crash in September 2013, and won silver on her comeback at this year\u2019s Ironman Asia-Pacific Championship Melbourne, then managing a top-ten finish at Kona despite severe leg cramp on the run.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p >Also racing in Denmark next June will be two-time Ironman World Champion Chris McCormack, who will be taking on the half-iron distance race.<\/p>\n<p >(Image: Cerv\u00e9lo)<\/p>\n<p>    Advertisement<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p ><em><strong>Are you racing Challenge Denmark? Let us know in the comments below!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Beth Ellis, one of the toughest female athletes in long-distance triathlon, has signed up to race next year\u2019s Challenge Denmark on June 13th, 2015. Advertisement \u201cI am so excited to race Challenge Denmark,\u201d she says. \u201cI have been searching for a race in Denmark the last few years and have long desired to visit &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/onhee.com\/?p=12081\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mary Beth Ellis to race Challenge Denmark 2015&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}