{"id":40,"date":"2011-11-30T02:30:56","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T02:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steeple-web.com\/blog\/?p=40"},"modified":"2011-11-30T02:30:56","modified_gmt":"2011-11-30T02:30:56","slug":"charleston-40-mile-relay-champions-year-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.steepleweb.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/charleston-40-mile-relay-champions-year-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Charleston 40-Mile Relay Champs (Year 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SteepleWeb had a team compete in the 2nd annual Charleston Challenge 40 Mile Relay in Charleston, IL. There were double the teams this year &#8211; but our goal was to\u00a0obviously\u00a0win again &#8211; but also to break 4 hours (last year we ran 4 hours and 7 minutes).<\/p>\n<p>The weather was fantastic, and we had a great group of guys competing for SteepleWeb (only 1 returning runner from last year)!<\/p>\n<p>Our time was 3:59.01 (set the course record) and the next team was 55 minutes behind us. \u00a0Here is some eye candy for you!<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a title=\"40 Mile Relay 2011 076 by EIUsteepler, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/eiusteepler\/6339334304\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.staticflickr.com\/6111\/6339334304_174c29d628.jpg\" alt=\"40 Mile Relay 2011 076\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Already of to a lead right from the gun<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a title=\"40 Mile Relay 2011 103 by EIUsteepler, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/eiusteepler\/6338613659\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.staticflickr.com\/6040\/6338613659_5b83714290.jpg\" alt=\"40 Mile Relay 2011 103\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Rooster<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a title=\"40 Mile Relay 2011 156 by EIUsteepler, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/eiusteepler\/6338685175\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.staticflickr.com\/6100\/6338685175_7d9daca9b7.jpg\" alt=\"40 Mile Relay 2011 156\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Not sure what was happening here, but it was epic!<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a title=\"40 Mile Relay 2011 204 by EIUsteepler, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/eiusteepler\/6339503464\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.staticflickr.com\/6033\/6339503464_5facd3a4d0.jpg\" alt=\"40 Mile Relay 2011 204\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is my dog, she rode in the van with us for the 4 hours, and licked all the sweat off the guys when they finished their legs<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a title=\"40 Mile Relay 2011 284 by EIUsteepler, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/eiusteepler\/6338847799\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.staticflickr.com\/6222\/6338847799_b4234ee8cb.jpg\" alt=\"40 Mile Relay 2011 284\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">being awesome<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a title=\"40 Mile Relay 2011 821 by EIUsteepler, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/eiusteepler\/6342033002\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.staticflickr.com\/6094\/6342033002_89d863952f.jpg\" alt=\"40 Mile Relay 2011 821\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Its a Trap<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a title=\"40 Mile Relay 2011 1104 by EIUsteepler, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/eiusteepler\/6342594480\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.staticflickr.com\/6222\/6342594480_6b6725d8e7.jpg\" alt=\"40 Mile Relay 2011 1104\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">sometimes, shit happens<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a title=\"40 Mile Relay 2011 1212 by EIUsteepler, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/eiusteepler\/6342785006\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.staticflickr.com\/6034\/6342785006_0020a3041f.jpg\" alt=\"40 Mile Relay 2011 1212\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dave McKinney, Nic &quot;Rooster&quot; Atkinson, Mike Connolly, Eric Traphagen - the winning crew<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SteepleWeb had a team compete in the 2nd annual Charleston Challenge 40 Mile Relay in Charleston, IL. There were double the teams this year &#8211; but our goal was to\u00a0obviously\u00a0win again &#8211; but also to break 4 hours (last year we ran 4 hours and 7 minutes). The weather was fantastic, and we had a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-team-steepleweb","tag-40milerelay"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Hhmc-E","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steepleweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steepleweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steepleweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steepleweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steepleweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.steepleweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steepleweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steepleweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steepleweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}