{"id":1720,"date":"2013-07-29T18:55:08","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T01:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wallypots.com\/?p=1720"},"modified":"2013-08-04T18:59:43","modified_gmt":"2013-08-05T01:59:43","slug":"my-first-triathlon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wallypots.com\/?p=1720","title":{"rendered":"My First Triathlon!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wallypots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_4793.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1721\" title=\"IMG_4793\" src=\"https:\/\/wallypots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_4793-e1375658771299.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"439\" height=\"613\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Those of you who have followed my blog posts on running might have noticed that I haven&#8217;t posted anything in this category for quite a while.\u00a0 Three years ago I was diagnosed with chronic knee arthritis and had to quit the sport.\u00a0 It was pretty devastating at the time, and I&#8217;ve learned to deal with it and realize that nothing lasts forever.\u00a0 Fortunately, I still have a good exercise ethic so I&#8217;ve been swimming and biking a lot lately.\u00a0 This is two-thirds of a triathlon, so I decided to try the Evergreen Sprint Triathlon this year and it was a blast.\u00a0 Yesterday I placed fifth out of eleven contestants in my age group, and with a mere five training runs during the two months before the race, I ran a &#8220;sizzling&#8221; nine minutes per mile in the three mile run.\u00a0 Note: this is the <em>exact<\/em> pace I ran a <a href=\"https:\/\/wallypots.com\/?p=558\" target=\"_blank\">30 mile trail race <\/a>just three years ago! For more pics and more details on the race, check out my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/tom.edwards.900\/media_set?set=a.10200961997829351.1073741836.1148408179&amp;type=1\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook photo album<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wallypots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_4808.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1722\" title=\"IMG_4808\" src=\"https:\/\/wallypots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_4808-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/wallypots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_4811.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1723\" title=\"IMG_4811\" src=\"https:\/\/wallypots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_4811-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those of you who have followed my blog posts on running might have noticed that I haven&#8217;t posted anything in this category for quite a while.\u00a0 Three years ago I was diagnosed with chronic knee arthritis and had to quit &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wallypots.com\/?p=1720\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-running"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallypots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallypots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallypots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallypots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallypots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1720"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/wallypots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1729,"href":"https:\/\/wallypots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720\/revisions\/1729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallypots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallypots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallypots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}