{"id":1001,"date":"2016-05-23T14:21:07","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T12:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bloodsister.org\/en\/?page_id=1001"},"modified":"2016-07-04T12:27:42","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T10:27:42","slug":"derrick-baard-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodsister.org\/en\/ambassadors\/derrick-baard-2","title":{"rendered":"Derrick Baard"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row full_width=&#8221;stretch_row&#8221; foundry_padding=&#8221;pt0 pb0&#8243; foundry_parallax=&#8221;not-parallax&#8221;][vc_column]\n\t\t\t<section class=\"cover fullscreen image-slider slider-arrow-controls controls-inside parallax-off hero-header\">\n\t\t\t    <ul class=\"slides\">\n\t\t\t        <li class=\"overlay image-bg\">\n\t\t\t            <div class=\"background-image-holder\">\n\t\t\t                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1700\" height=\"1133\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bloodsister.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/RB3A4972-DerrickBaard.jpg\" class=\"background-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bloodsister.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/RB3A4972-DerrickBaard.jpg 1700w, https:\/\/www.bloodsister.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/RB3A4972-DerrickBaard-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bloodsister.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/RB3A4972-DerrickBaard-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bloodsister.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/RB3A4972-DerrickBaard-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bloodsister.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/RB3A4972-DerrickBaard-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1700px) 100vw, 1700px\" \/>\n\t\t\t            <\/div>\n\t\t\t            <div class=\"container v-align-transform\">\n\t\t\t                <div class=\"row\">\n\t\t\t                    <div class=\"col-md-6 col-md-offset-3 col-sm-8 col-sm-offset-2 text-center\">\n\t\t\t                        <\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: right;\">Derrick Baard<\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: right;\">Trail Runner<\/h2>\n<p>\n\n\t\t\t                    <\/div>\n\t\t\t                <\/div>\n\t\t\t            <\/div>\n\t\t\t        <\/li>\n\t\t\t    <\/ul>\n\t\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h3>Derrick in Action<\/h3>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodsister.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/RB3A3279-2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1068\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1068 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bloodsister.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/RB3A3279-2.jpg\" alt=\"RB3A3279-2\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bloodsister.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/RB3A3279-2.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.bloodsister.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/RB3A3279-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bloodsister.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/RB3A3279-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bloodsister.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/RB3A3279-2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bloodsister.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/RB3A3279-2-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1447849311074{background-color: #91c5d3 !important;}&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"uppercase mb24 bold\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Biographie<\/span><\/h1>\n<h5 class=\"uppercase fade-1-4\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">\u201cKeep moving\u2026stay hungry\u201d<\/span><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Derrick Baard<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Derrick Baard was born in the beautiful city of Cape Town. There are two consistent threads that run through his life &amp; that is the love of Architecture + Design and running, specifically trail running. One would say that these two loves oppose each other but herein lies the essence of these two passions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Derrick design philosophy is one of simplicity and that is probably why after having tried almost every other sport under the sun once or twice, searching for his niche, tried on a pair of North Star takkies when 16 years of age and jumped into the back of his schools Cross Country Team\u2019s bus and has been running ever since.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">It\u2019s the simplicity of running and sense of freedom that Derrick enjoys especially when it\u2019s out in nature and criss crossing over a mountain in the driving rain where he feels most alive. In this simplicity and purity of running, Derrick finds his philosophy for design and in general, for life as he believes \u201cdo what you love and love what you do\u201d the rest comes naturally and is a sustainable motto to live by and it\u2019s when Derrick is running in the mountains that he thinks about life, the next design, the next business strategy and the next what is possible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Of his many races run, one of his highlights would have to be his 2:26:18 London Marathon in \u201996 &amp; 2:36.00 in \u201997, English National Cross Country Champs in \u201997. Since 1999, after 13 years of Road Running, Cross Country and Track, Derrick turned his running attention to Trail Running where he has won numerous races with one of his favourites being The Dryland Traverse 4 Day stage race, and SA Veteran 1st at the 38KM Jonkershoek Mountain Challenge. In between all the running, there has been some Mountain Biking, having done the 2009 Freedom Challenge which is a 2300KM ride from Pietermaritzburg, Kwazulu Natal to Paarl in Cape Town and the 2010 Cape Epic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"> Derrick\u2019s desire to run and race is still as strong as when he climbed into that school bus in \u201986.<br \/>\nThe next episode in Derrick\u2019s running career would to be to do some international races such as Racing the Planet, Patagonia 2017, Trans Alps and similar multi-day events. <\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h3>Derrick\u00a0on Instagram<\/h3>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text]<div class=\"instafeed grid-gallery\" data-max=\"12\" data-user-name=\"derrickbaard\" data-method=\"getUserFeed\"><ul><\/ul><\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row full_width=&#8221;stretch_row&#8221; foundry_padding=&#8221;pt0 pb0&#8243; foundry_parallax=&#8221;not-parallax&#8221;][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text] Derrick in Action [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text][\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1447849311074{background-color: #91c5d3 !important;}&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text] Biographie \u201cKeep moving\u2026stay hungry\u201d Derrick Baard&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":616,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1001","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodsister.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodsister.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodsister.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodsister.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodsister.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodsister.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1196,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodsister.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1001\/revisions\/1196"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodsister.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodsister.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}