{"id":2228,"date":"2016-08-07T05:54:20","date_gmt":"2016-08-06T19:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/?p=2228"},"modified":"2016-08-07T05:54:20","modified_gmt":"2016-08-06T19:54:20","slug":"potholes-bikes-dont-mix-well-cebu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/potholes-bikes-dont-mix-well-cebu\/","title":{"rendered":"Potholes and bikes don&#8217;t mix well in Cebu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s never easy to say you aren&#8217;t taking part in a race the day before race day. It&#8217;s frustrating! It&#8217;s tough! It&#8217;s gut wrenching! <\/p>\n<p>After finishing <a href=\"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/running-hot-and-humid-in-cebu\/\">2nd last year<\/a> by only a few seconds last year to a great mate, Tim Reed, I really wanted to make this return to Cebu an even better one. After coming away with the <a href=\"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/champion-in-cairns\/\">Asia-Pacific Ironman title<\/a> in Cairns, I was very hungry to give the 70.3 Asia-Pacific title a really good crack. <\/p>\n<p>What started out as a very easy pre-race ride this morning with Tim Reed, Sam Betten, Leon Griffin and Craig Alexander to get the legs moving, turned into gravel rash and stitches. As with all pre-race rides, they are nice and easy and I was really cautious for most of the ride.  <\/p>\n<p>We had headed back to the hotel and decided to do a small spin of the legs up the road and back. I was chatting with Crowie and hadn&#8217;t noticed in a shaded part of the road that there was a fairly sizeable pothole. I was lucky to have been doing anything more than 20km\/h. I hit the deck face first which wasn&#8217;t enjoyable to say the very least.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/13942642_10154426652486670_851182212_n.jpg\" alt=\"13942642_10154426652486670_851182212_n\" width=\"960\" height=\"639\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2232\" \/><br \/>\n&#x1f4f8; Sam Betten<\/p>\n<p>I dusted myself off and headed back to the hotel and was immediately checked over to by the nurse. For extra precaution I jumped into the ambulance which took me to the local hospital to get me patched up and properly checked over &#8211; including 5 stitches on my chin. Thankfully nothing is broken.<\/p>\n<p>Where to from here? I&#8217;ll take this small opportunity to take some time out and to cheer on all the guys and girls racing tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>All the best out there and stay safe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[265],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228"}],"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=2228"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2234,"href":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228\/revisions\/2234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}