{"id":41,"date":"2008-04-30T23:08:08","date_gmt":"2008-04-30T23:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelm.info\/blog\/?p=41"},"modified":"2008-04-30T23:08:08","modified_gmt":"2008-04-30T23:08:08","slug":"first-tri-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelm.info\/blog\/?p=41","title":{"rendered":"First tri done!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well I completed my first triathlon on Sunday. Hurray. It was a short sprint in Hyde Park (400m\/15km\/5km) which I completed in 1h09:52 according to the official times.<\/p>\n<p>That time was roughly what I was expecting. The bike and the run both went well. The swim was a slightly different matter. My navigation needs work&#8230; trying to go straight in the murky water was a bit of a challenge.\u00a0My wetsuit wasnt fitting quite right so I wasnt breathing properly and ended up somewhat unexpectedly out of breath. I took things easy and got to the end feeling a bit deflated.\u00a0 Yet more work is needed on the swim.<\/p>\n<p>On that note I have a couple of swim lessons scheduled in a couple of weeks time to try and get some more swim technique pointers!<\/p>\n<p>My training in general has not been totally up to scratch but it is progressing&#8230; but is it progressing fast enough? I certainly hope so!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well I completed my first triathlon on Sunday. Hurray. It was a short sprint in Hyde Park (400m\/15km\/5km) which I completed in 1h09:52 according to the official times. That time was roughly what I was expecting. The bike and the run both went well. The swim was a slightly different matter. My navigation needs work&#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-day","category-race","category-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelm.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","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=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelm.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelm.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelm.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelm.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}