{"id":1188,"date":"2004-10-03T01:33:12","date_gmt":"2004-10-03T05:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/10\/iron_man\/"},"modified":"2004-10-03T01:33:12","modified_gmt":"2004-10-03T05:33:12","slug":"iron_man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/10\/iron_man\/","title":{"rendered":"Iron Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll be rolling out bright and early Sunday morning to participate in the <a href=\"http:\/\/pe.southern.edu\/intramural\/triathlon.htm\">2004 Sunbelt\/Cohutta Springs Triathlon<\/a>.  I&#8217;ve never competed in a triathlon and only have one small issue in doing so: I can&#8217;t swim, at least no farther than a pool length or so.  But that&#8217;s the beauty of a relay team.<br \/>\nThe event is a mini triathlon, so I&#8217;ll only be bicycling for 18 miles.  I don&#8217;t imagine we&#8217;ll be in the running for a top placement, so my main goal is to complete my leg in no more than 55 minutes.  That and to avoid being hit by any rural North Georgia drivers.  We&#8217;ll see how it goes.<br \/>\nPOST-RACE UPDATE: The bicycle riding went fairly well.  The only issue I had was some rare cramping in my calf muscles along the way.  I guess I had too much heat and not enough water.  I completed the leg in 56 minutes&#8211;only one minute off my goal.  Overall, however, our relay team didn&#8217;t fare well.  The team&#8211;consisting of three 30ish year old males&#8211;lost to several females and barely edged out a 61 year-old solo male competitor.  It was pretty brutal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/10\/iron_man\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Iron Man\"><p>I&#8217;ll be rolling out bright and early Sunday morning to participate in the 2004 Sunbelt\/Cohutta Springs Triathlon. I&#8217;ve never competed in a triathlon and only have one small issue in doing so: I can&#8217;t swim, at least no farther than a pool length or so. But that&#8217;s the beauty of a relay team. The event [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1188","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}