{"id":543,"date":"2017-06-23T21:58:56","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T21:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/?p=543"},"modified":"2017-06-23T21:58:56","modified_gmt":"2017-06-23T21:58:56","slug":"2017-dare2tri-pt-camp-69-61117","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/23\/2017-dare2tri-pt-camp-69-61117\/","title":{"rendered":"2017 Dare2Tri PT Camp (6\/9-6\/11\/17)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When I showed up at camp two years ago, it was my first Triathlon experience. That weekend got me hooked and provided a wealth of experiences \/ knowledge \u2013 including that I needed so much additional gear to succeed.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, I showed up for my 3rd Paratriathlon (PT) camp. Much better armed and geared than I was in 2015, I was excited for the weekend. It was great to see new faces as well as many familiar ones.<\/p>\n

As in the past, the weekend included strength training, yoga, transition work and two sessions (drills and workouts) for bike, swim & run. An added benefit for 2017 was getting to practice on parts of what will be the PT Nationals Course this coming weekend.<\/p>\n

Throughout the weekend, the coaches helped to increase skills, regardless of what the level of the participant was. For me, a couple of the big improvements were on the bike. This is the first season that I\u2019ve been using clips, and it\u2019s been a hard learning process at times. But during the weekend, I was able to get in\/out and do starts\/stops with a lot more confidence than I had prior. It wasn\u2019t always perfect, but it worked well. While the bike (and swim) were big pluses, the run is still a struggle. I know that I need to get more runs in, and I will continue working on that throughout the rest of the year. <\/p>\n

After two days of being beat up\u2026 um, I mean, training ;), it was time for the Tri It Triathlon. As you can probably predict from the above paragraph, Swim\/T1\/Bike\/T2 went well; Run was a disaster. Even still, great to see a lot of people cross their first finish line as I did in 2015!<\/p>\n

Even with the issues with the run, it was still a great weekend. IMO it\u2019s all about continuing to move forward. It won\u2019t always be perfect, but you can\u2019t let the frustrations break you or make you give up. <\/p>\n

If you are disabled and want to get involved in or improve your Triathlon skills, look at attending the 2018 PT Camp! www.dare2tri.org <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I showed up at camp two years ago, it was my first Triathlon experience. That weekend got me hooked and provided a wealth of experiences \/ knowledge \u2013 including that I needed so much additional gear to succeed. Earlier this month, I showed up for my 3rd Paratriathlon (PT) camp. Much better armed and … Continue reading 2017 Dare2Tri PT Camp (6\/9-6\/11\/17)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[30,179,7],"class_list":["post-543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dare2tri","tag-dare2tri-paratriathlon-club","tag-james-gilliard"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":544,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions\/544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}