{"id":350,"date":"2012-07-16T09:49:21","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T09:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelm.info\/blog\/?p=350"},"modified":"2012-07-16T09:49:21","modified_gmt":"2012-07-16T09:49:21","slug":"yikes-i-amaze-myself-sometimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelm.info\/blog\/?p=350","title":{"rendered":"Yikes, I amaze myself sometimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I was looking over my past events last night and noticed something that I had forgotten. I noticed that I had less than one month between my first ever triathlon and my first half-Ironman race. WOW. That was pretty gutsy for me. I look back now and am not sure I would recommend such behaviour. It does however, make me think about just what is possible when one puts their mind to something.Maybe that Ironman race next year isn&#8217;t so bad afterall.<\/p>\n<p>I did a &#8220;sortof&#8221; triathlon in training yesterday. Did a 1600m swim set, a 15mile bike ride and a 2mile run. Transistions were pretty slow (ok, a trip to buy groceries between the swim and bike) however. The 15 mile loop may become a time-trial course of sorts for me over the coming months. It&#8217;s got some decent stretches for TT aero-bar position and has a short-sharp hill at about 10miles. I look forward to reducing the time to complete the loop \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I was looking over my past events last night and noticed something that I had forgotten. I noticed that I had less than one month between my first ever triathlon and my first half-Ironman race. WOW. That was pretty gutsy for me. I look back now and am not sure I would recommend such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,8,13],"tags":[24,31,255],"class_list":["post-350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chit-chat","category-good-day","category-miscinfo","category-training","tag-bike","tag-cycling","tag-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelm.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelm.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelm.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelm.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelm.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelm.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelm.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelm.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelm.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}