{"id":1670,"date":"2015-05-03T20:49:32","date_gmt":"2015-05-03T09:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/?p=1670"},"modified":"2015-05-03T21:12:45","modified_gmt":"2015-05-03T10:12:45","slug":"chilled-to-the-bone-in-busselton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/chilled-to-the-bone-in-busselton\/","title":{"rendered":"Chilled to the bone in Busselton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who were concerned after reading my tweet following Busselton 70.3 on Saturday &#8211; it\u2019s all good\u2026 tits are still attached. Ego is bruised, back is still sore when I bend down and I\u2019m feeling very disappointed about my result. I\u2019ll keep this race report short and sweet.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet tw-align-center\" data-cards=\"hidden\" lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Rough day today @im703busso froze my tits off and still suffering with a sore back. Onwards and upwards. <\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tim Van Berkel (@TimBerkel) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TimBerkel\/status\/594438791546404866\">May 2, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>A Frosty Start<\/strong><br \/>\nWe lined up for the start of the swim at Geographe Bay and the temperature registered 3 degrees. Apparent temp was actually closer to zero. That\u2019s bloody cold! Having said that, I had a great swim. Back felt okay, I stayed in the front group, sticking right on Sticksy\u2019s heels, and came out of the water in 24:53.<\/p>\n<p>I hit T1 and as soon as I took my wetsuit off, I got <em>really<\/em> cold. Jumped on the bike and as I headed out onto the course I felt like I was riding like an old man. Wasn\u2019t actually doing too badly, but by the 67km mark I was off the pace by 7 mins. Mentally and physically though it was a real battle. All the time I was telling myself, \u201cIt will get warmer\u2026 it\u2019s got to get warmer\u2026\u201d And as the bike ride went on my back was getting tighter and tighter.<\/p>\n<p>[insert]<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_5280.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5280\" width=\"1280\" height=\"854\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1676\" \/>[\/insert]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chilled to the bone<\/strong><br \/>\nBy the time I got to T2, the temperature was registering 14 degrees, but apparent temp was still only about 10 degrees. I got off the bike and started running. My back was really tight, my feet were literally numb and I was struggling to put it together.<\/p>\n<p>I ran 5km and in the end I felt it was better for the long-term plan to pull the pin- something I never like having to do. Maybe I could have pushed through to the finish, but I was going so slow &#8211; just didn\u2019t have my usual spring.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pulling out the positives<\/strong><br \/>\nEvery outing is a learning experience \u2013 it\u2019s always good to reflect, whether it\u2019s been a good race or an ordinary one \u2013 on what you did well and where you need to improve.<\/p>\n<p>On the plus side &#8211; I had a great swim and stuck with the front group, which is always my plan. I\u2019m determined to get this back issue sorted- going to hit the gym a little harder and work on building more strength in my core, back, glutes and hamstrings. And as always, nothing like getting a swift kick in the backside to motivate you to work harder and get sorted. Cairns 70.3 is coming up next on June 14th.<\/p>\n<p>If I\u2019m honest, Busselton 70.3 was a bit of a dark day. It definitely hurt having to pull the pin. Let\u2019s face it, no one likes to post a DNF. But Busselton has been a good hunting ground in the past and you can\u2019t win them all. And thank goodness &#8211; I\u2019ve still got the course record!<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to the fellas &#8211; Sam Appleton, Terenzo Bozzone and James Cunnama &#8211; you guys ran a great race. And as I said in my post-race tweet &#8211; onwards and upwards!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1672,"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\/1670"}],"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=1670"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1678,"href":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670\/revisions\/1678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}