{"id":14752,"date":"2022-10-05T20:36:32","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T19:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=14752"},"modified":"2022-10-05T20:36:34","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T19:36:34","slug":"naked-ambition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=14752","title":{"rendered":"Naked Ambition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

You don’t get anywhere if you don’t have ambition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Competitive equestrians tend to focus on the next step up the ladder: Intro to PreNovice to Novice to Advanced to One Star to Two Star to Three Star to Gatcombe or Burleigh or Blenheim or Badminton. Unless they are dressage pussies, obviously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Competitive sailors come in two primary sizes: hardcore racers and distance challengers. The former can be found on the water in almost all weathers. They are quite… obsessed with winning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The latter tend to be motivated by individual\/personal goals. To the Scilly Isles, to the Canaries, to Cape Verde, around the Med, to the Horn of Africa. The big distance targets tend to be common; Arctic Circle, transatlantic (Caribbean, Central\/Latin America, North America), or the big one – circumnavigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the biggest distance challenges is the Jester, a singlehanded transatlantic race for boats between 20′-30′. The start point for the 2022 Jester Challenge was Plymouth, England, the destination was Rhode Island USA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Good Mood, being 32′, is not eligible for the Jester Challenge, but that doesn’t mean I can’t sit on the sidelines and read, watch, and learn from those who have taken part. Yesterday evening I spent a long time reading Bernie Branfield’s account of his 2022 Jester Challenge experience<\/a>. It’s a long read. Bernie takes us through his preparations, daily trials and tribulations, and the good and bad experiences he encountered. I am full of admiration for everyone who undertakes this challenge, it’s no small thing. The mental and physical aspects of the Jester are huge. It’s a hell of a read though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You don’t get anywhere if you don’t have ambition. Competitive equestrians tend to focus on the next step up the ladder: Intro to PreNovice to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}