{"id":232,"date":"2011-08-24T14:32:24","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T19:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomheller.com\/?p=232"},"modified":"2011-08-24T14:33:26","modified_gmt":"2011-08-24T19:33:26","slug":"triathlon-racing-every-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomheller.com\/?p=232","title":{"rendered":"Triathlon racing every weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, not quite, but almost.  Thank goodness for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.multirace.com\">www.multirace.com<\/a> and living in Florida.\u00a0 I finished my last triathlon last Saturday.\u00a0 The next one isn&#8217;t until 25 September.\u00a0 I have done four or five sprint distance triathlons since Ironman.\u00a0 Mostly they&#8217;ve been one weekend after another.\u00a0 Training gets boring after a while, so it&#8217;s nice to actually <strong>race<\/strong>!\u00a0 The last race was the Battle at Fort Desoto, which is on the Gulf side of Florida.\u00a0 Very nice and flat.\u00a0 I managed to break the 20 mph barrier on the bike for any triathlon!\u00a0 I came in 16 out of 22 in my age group.<\/p>\n<p>Right now I was about to go out and ride the bike for 1.5 hours, but it&#8217;s pouring rain &#8211; an unfortunate aspect of Florida in Summer.\u00a0 So, I guess I will do the indoor trainer instead.\u00a0 After that I&#8217;m going to do 30 minutes of strength training.<\/p>\n<p>My next race is the <a title=\"Escape to Miami\" href=\"http:\/\/www.escapetomiamitriathlon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Escape to Miami triathlon <\/a>in Miami on 25 Sept.\u00a0 I signed up for the olympic distance race.\u00a0 It will be my first non-sprint race in a while.\u00a0 Thankfully, I have four weeks to train for that.<\/p>\n<p>The only other triathlon that I am signed up for this year is the <a title=\"Miami Man Triathlon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.miamimantriathlon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Miami Man<\/a> half iron distance triathlon in November.\u00a0 It is supposed to be the best in Florida!\u00a0 I can hardly wait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, not quite, but almost. Thank goodness for www.multirace.com and living in Florida.\u00a0 I finished my last triathlon last Saturday.\u00a0 The next one isn&#8217;t until 25 September.\u00a0 I have done four or five sprint distance triathlons since Ironman.\u00a0 Mostly they&#8217;ve<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomheller.com\/?p=232\">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":[7,8],"tags":[227,20,229,226,228,225,313,104],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232"}],"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=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions\/234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}