{"id":153,"date":"2010-11-01T16:35:43","date_gmt":"2010-11-01T21:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomheller.com\/?p=153"},"modified":"2010-11-07T01:36:59","modified_gmt":"2010-11-07T06:36:59","slug":"ironman-miami-703-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomheller.com\/?p=153","title":{"rendered":"Ironman Miami 70.3 Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What can I say? \u00a0It sucked.<\/p>\n<p>I managed to finish in 7:36.<\/p>\n<p>Most athletes I talked with were unhappy with the race organization &#8211; transition for bike checkin opened 3 hours late, packet pickup was a joke, people were pushed off the dock into the water, aid stations were missing or lacking severely, and on and on.<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t do this race next year. \u00a0Maybe nobody will &#8211; the website isn&#8217;t even up today.<\/p>\n<p>Update: \u00a0The World Triathlon Corporation aka Ironman, has said it will take over production of this even next year. \u00a0This year&#8217;s race was organized by Paramount Productions. \u00a0It is also going to allow all participants of this year&#8217;s Rohto Ironman Miami 70.3 the chance to register for a 70.3 race next year, free of charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did Ironman Miami 70.3 suck for you too?<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomheller.com\/?p=153\">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":[4,6,8],"tags":[310,58,167,169,59,168,313],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153"}],"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=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions\/155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}