{"id":1507,"date":"2015-01-28T12:09:25","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T01:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/?p=1507"},"modified":"2015-01-28T12:09:25","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T01:09:25","slug":"back-melbourne-good-weather-racing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/back-melbourne-good-weather-racing\/","title":{"rendered":"Back in Melbourne for some good weather and racing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday is Challenge Melbourne and I\u2019m looking forward to heading south to defend my title. Mind you, you always feel like a bit of a marked man in these situations! <\/p>\n<p>Auckland was a bit of a shocker, but the last few weeks have been really good, getting my head together and just getting back into the routine. I definitely feel a whole lot better prepared than I was for my last race.<\/p>\n<p>The Melbourne course is great \u2013 very fast swim and bike legs. Water temp at Brighton will be around 20\u02daC and the weather prediction is warm but not too hot. Mind you, Melbourne is well known for serving up four seasons in one day. Last year it was really hot. This year \u2013 well, we won\u2019t really know until we\u2019re racing and even then it can change. Just got to be prepared for anything.<\/p>\n<p>The ride is three laps along Beach Road \u2013 it\u2019s undulating, fast and it\u2019s a classic spot for Melbourne cyclists. The run leg heads out towards Sandringham and is a bit different. Most of the way it sticks pretty close to the beach and it\u2019s a single track, which can make it a little tough when it gets congested.<\/p>\n<p>For all the age-groupers competing \u2013 my advice is to keep your wits about you on the run. It\u2019s twisty, there\u2019s some loose dirt, so watch your footing and be careful. Don\u2019t forget to have fun, go hard and I\u2019ll see you at the finish!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/945STRzEfgg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><insert><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/1517498_805277112822416_372397980_n.jpg\" alt=\"1517498_805277112822416_372397980_n\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1509\" \/><\/insert><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507"}],"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=1507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1510,"href":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507\/revisions\/1510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}