{"id":365,"date":"2013-10-21T15:52:01","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T20:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomheller.com\/?p=365"},"modified":"2013-10-21T15:52:01","modified_gmt":"2013-10-21T20:52:01","slug":"almost-time-for-2013-ironman-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomheller.com\/?p=365","title":{"rendered":"Almost time for 2013 Ironman Florida!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I did not get to race the 2013 Ironman Coeur d&#8217;Alene, I am signed up for <a title=\"Ironman Florida\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ironmanflorida.com\" target=\"_blank\">2013 Ironman Florida<\/a>.\u00a0 The race is less than two weeks away.\u00a0 I have been training here in Panama City beach for nearly a month.\u00a0 Swimming in the Gulf, riding and running along Front Beach Road, I am ready to race.\u00a0 Well, I am ready to go mentally.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know if my body is ready.\u00a0 After crashing my bike in June and missing IM CDA, it was 5 weeks before I got back on the bike, and 8 weeks before I started running again.\u00a0 Ideally, I could use another month of training, just to get some more long rides and runs in.<\/p>\n<p>The water here is great, but I found out that there are jellyfish.\u00a0 Thankfully, I will be wearing a full wetsuit, so that shouldn&#8217;t be much of a problem.\u00a0 The bike route is one big loop.\u00a0 I have heard it&#8217;s boring, so I haven&#8217;t tried to ride the course because I only want to be bored once!\u00a0 The bulk of my training has been along Front Beach Road, which comprises the first and last 5 miles of the ride.\u00a0 The run course is two loops and from what I can tell should be nice.\u00a0 I will be walking most of it anyway, which means it will be dark, so I am not going to miss much.<\/p>\n<p>This is my last full Ironman this year and maybe for a while to come.\u00a0 Half Ironman races just seem much more manageable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I did not get to race the 2013 Ironman Coeur d&#8217;Alene, I am signed up for 2013 Ironman Florida.\u00a0 The race is less than two weeks away.\u00a0 I have been training here in Panama City beach for nearly a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomheller.com\/?p=365\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365"}],"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=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":366,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions\/366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}