{"id":32,"date":"2006-05-24T23:20:31","date_gmt":"2006-05-24T13:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/?p=32"},"modified":"2015-12-22T06:28:03","modified_gmt":"2015-12-21T20:28:03","slug":"strong-finish-leads-to-personal-best-in-busselton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/strong-finish-leads-to-personal-best-in-busselton\/","title":{"rendered":"Strong Finish Leads to Personal Best in Busselton 70.3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I decided to go back to the\u00a0Busselton\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ironman.com\/triathlon\/events\/asiapac\/ironman-70.3\/busselton.aspx#axzz3ucqwPLHx\" target=\"_blank\">70.3 Ironman<\/a> this year. Busselton is a beautiful place, and it was great to go there again. The field was pretty tough. With 26 pros racing, I had my work cut out for me! Race day began at 8:30 a.m. so we were all awake early. Before the race began, we all stood up for the national anthem and then away we went.<\/p>\n<p>The swim leg was pretty tough for me. I hit the beach in 15th position, and my swim time was 28:03. The bike leg began with Pete Jacobs in front; he ended up winning the race. I had a good bike leg and came off the bike in 12th position, riding a personal best with 2:18. I got off the bike feeling pretty strong, knowing that I could make up a few spots in the run. I had the fastest run of the day with 1:18:31, very happy with that leg, and ran my way into 7th place\u00a0overall. I am stoked with my position considering the field. My overall time was 4:04:51 (a <strong>PB!<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<h2>Busselton Race Results: Top 10 Finish Times<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Pete Jacobs 3:54:36<\/li>\n<li>Mitch Anderson 3:56:13<\/li>\n<li>Tom Jepsan 3:56:53<\/li>\n<li>Paul Ambrose 4:02:34<\/li>\n<li>Steven Bishop 4:02:47<\/li>\n<li>Boyd Conrick 4:03:36<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tim Berkel 4:04:51<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Tully Lyster 4:05:29<\/li>\n<li>Adam Conquest 4:07:29<\/li>\n<li>Sean O\u00b4Neall 4:08:10<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Overall, the trip to Bussleton was excellent. I had a ball on Saturday night at the meltdown party with the boys. Special thanks to Macca, who came all the way from Albury to watch and give support. Thanks mate! I also want to say thanks to Rouley for the laughs and to my <a href=\"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/sponsors\/\" target=\"_blank\">sponsors<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,4],"tags":[331,330,329],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32"}],"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=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":982,"href":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions\/982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}