{"id":279402,"date":"2026-06-26T22:23:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T22:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/279402\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T22:23:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T22:23:25","slug":"why-race-alone-when-your-dog-can-join-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/279402\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Race Alone When Your Dog Can Join, Too?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe dog makes the run,\u201d Tim Malo said. \u201cThey jump over everything. I\u2019m just dragging my old body behind them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Malo was recruited to race by his friend, Kathy Watson, from Sale Creek, Tenn. To prepare, Ms. Watson and her border collies, Rolex and Jack, spent three weeks dock-diving, a sport where dogs launch off a platform to chase toys in the water. <\/p>\n<p>But when her husband declined to run with her \u2014 \u201cbecause he\u2019s sane,\u201d she said \u2014 she asked Mr. Malo to team up with Jack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe dog makes the run,\u201d Tim Malo said. \u201cThey jump over everything. I\u2019m just dragging my old body&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5334,6530,9,11,10,107347,168],"class_list":["post-279402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-alabama","tag-dogs","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-obstacle-courses-sport","tag-running"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}