{"id":1501,"date":"2015-01-19T10:58:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-18T23:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/?p=1501"},"modified":"2015-02-16T21:27:49","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T10:27:49","slug":"wrong-direction-auckland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/wrong-direction-auckland\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrong direction in Auckland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ironman 70.3 Auckland yesterday and I\u2019ve got to admit that this is a tough report for me to write. Let\u2019s just say\u2026 there was good news and there was bad news. I\u2019ll start off with the good news:<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Good News<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It was a beautiful day for racing in Auckland \u2013 the Kiwis lined up some great weather for us. A cool 18\u02daC for the start of the swim up to a very pleasant 22\u02daC to finish the run in<\/li>\n<li>The swim felt good. Once again, I arrived into T1 with the main group, coming out alongside Crowie and Cam Brown. Definitely happy with the swim leg<\/li>\n<li>I was stoked to see two fellow Aussies storm home to take 1 &amp; 2 on the podium. Reedy (Tim Reed) was absolutely flying on the run leg and Griffo (Leon Griffin) was only 30 seconds behind. Well done, fellas!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The Bad News<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Managed to lose the front group going up the Harbour Bridge<\/li>\n<li>Rode with TB (Terenzo Bozzone) for about 60km but then lost him<\/li>\n<li>Came in 17th and felt very disappointed with the result<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Wise Advice<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Not much more to say, except to leave you with an important piece of advice\u2026 Try NOT to take a wrong turn on the bike leg. You\u2019ll end up riding an extra 3km, it won\u2019t help your time and it\u2019s just really, really embarrassing\u2026<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s days like these that drive you to refocus on your core values- the stuff that drives you. For me, that&#8217;s &#8211; strength, persistence, dream. Bring on Challenge Melbourne!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1501"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1562,"href":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501\/revisions\/1562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}