{"id":147,"date":"2010-07-04T15:01:39","date_gmt":"2010-07-04T20:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomheller.com\/?p=147"},"modified":"2010-07-04T15:01:39","modified_gmt":"2010-07-04T20:01:39","slug":"ironman-cda-here-i-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomheller.com\/?p=147","title":{"rendered":"Ironman CDA, here I come"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I was in Spokane last week, after having completed the <a title=\"Seattle Rock 'n Roll Marathon\" href=\"http:\/\/seattle.competitor.com\" target=\"_blank\">Seattle Rock &#8216;n Roll Marathon<\/a>, there were other things going on. \u00a0First was hoopfest, second was the <a title=\"Ironman Coeur D'Alene\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ironmancda.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ironman CDA (Coeur D&#8217;Alene)<\/a>. \u00a0This race is one of the best Ironman races (so I&#8217;ve read). \u00a0It has two 1.2 mile swim loops in Lake Coeur D&#8217;Alene, two 56.3 mile bike loops, and two 13.1 mile run loops. \u00a0It takes place the last Sunday in June when the weather is usually very nice.<\/p>\n<p>At first, I wanted to volunteer for the race, but Seattle beat me up so badly, that I ended up staying an extra day there. \u00a0I didn&#8217;t even get to watch any of the race. \u00a0But, on Monday at noon, I logged on and found that slots for 2010 were still open, so I signed up. \u00a0I have yet to complete a half-ironman race (Miami in October will be my first), let alone a full ironman. \u00a0Looking at the results from this year, I see that there were 250 men in my age group (45-49) with 230 finishing. \u00a0I&#8217;m fairly confident that if I can keep my training fresh, that I&#8217;ll be able to come in at least 220!<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a lot of work ahead for this race, but I&#8217;m really looking forward to it. \u00a0Who knows, maybe after I complete it I&#8217;ll even want to sign up for other Ironman races or Ironman CDA in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Check back for more updates and my training schedule which I hope to complete by next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slot secured for Ironman CDA 2011<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomheller.com\/?p=147\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,7,8],"tags":[146,310,158,159,157,313,104],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions\/148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}