{"id":48,"date":"2007-11-18T23:47:42","date_gmt":"2007-11-18T13:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/?p=48"},"modified":"2015-12-24T14:01:40","modified_gmt":"2015-12-24T04:01:40","slug":"first-win-at-2007-shepparton-half-ironman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/first-win-at-2007-shepparton-half-ironman\/","title":{"rendered":"First Win at 2007 Shepparton Half Ironman"},"content":{"rendered":"

Having come out of the Port Macquarie Half Ironman<\/a> a little disappointed with my race, I was excited to return to the Shepparton Half Ironman<\/a>. I had raced in my first Half Ironman in Shepparton, and I have to say, I was far more relaxed than two weeks previous at Port Mac. The calm nerves seemed to be a good omen because I had such an enjoyable race and was relieved and stoked to have some good form and an awesome result.<\/p>\n

The swim around Kialla Lakes gave me a good start, and by the second buoy I found I was in the lead. From there, I led the swim out of the water with about 12 seconds on the group with a time of 24:49, a great feat for me as swimming is usually my weaker leg.<\/p>\n

I got onto the bike where I was quickly joined by fellow Port Mac training mate, Adam Holborow, and we had a nice little lead on the chase group. I was feeling awesome on the bike, considering the rain and wind, and ended up averaging over 40 km\/hour. With about 10 km to go, I was feeling good and got a gap on Adam. I entered transition with a 1:20 lead on him and 6 minutes on the chase group. I had\u00a0the fastest ride of the day with a time of 2:14.<\/p>\n

I got onto the run feeling pretty good and was able to maintain a solid pace throughout. I came across the line lapping up my first win and a personal best\u00a0of 3:58:36, with the legend Pete Murray once again calling me in as Commentator. In all, it was an awesome race for me. I really enjoyed it and was happy with the form I had on the day.<\/p>\n

A big thanks to all the support from my mates on the day and a congratulations to some notable efforts: Adam Holborow and John Cornish, who were doing an awesome job on the ride before they flatted. A bit of bad luck, guys.<\/p>\n

Shepparton Half Ironman Results: Top 5 Finish Times<\/h2>\n
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  1. TIM BERKEL 3:58:36<\/strong><\/li>\n
  2. Matt White 4:03:48<\/li>\n
  3. Troy Drinigan 4:05:14<\/li>\n
  4. Adam Holborow 4:08:45<\/li>\n
  5. Klayten Smith 4:14:39<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4],"tags":[338,333,337,339],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48"}],"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=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":980,"href":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions\/980"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}