{"id":832,"date":"2019-09-01T21:07:51","date_gmt":"2019-09-01T21:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/?p=832"},"modified":"2019-09-01T21:07:51","modified_gmt":"2019-09-01T21:07:51","slug":"naperville-sprint-tri-8-4-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/2019\/09\/01\/naperville-sprint-tri-8-4-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Naperville Sprint Tri – 8\/4\/19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Last year, a broken crank sidelined me from the race.  I tried everything I could to make it work,\nbut had to eventually throw in the towel. \nSo I was really looking forward to this year’s race.
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\nUpon getting to the race site, I was surprised in the dark.  I thought that I knew where my ‘stalker’ was\nat that weekend.  But they surprised me\nby being there.  Their note pre-race was\n‘finish faster’. 
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\nIn past years, we’ve been immediately behind the elites.  While it’s been a privilege to be that far\nup-font, it’s come at a price.  Simply\nbecause we’d have those able to do 5-6 minute swims swimming over us.  To counteract this, we seeded ourselves\ntowards the back of the pack.  This\nhelped some, but didn’t solve all of the issues.  Especially since it seemed like they went\nfrom a lane-line barrier to a more solid one. \nEven with a couple of hiccups, it was still a decent swim.
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\nAfter doing a reasonably quick T1 for the distance, we headed out on the\nbike.  As in Lake Zurich, we passed a\ntremendous amount of people on the double loop. \nI was hoping to see the Para Relay team while we were on the bike, but\nwe didin’t.  It also got a little hairy\ntowards the turnaround on the 2nd loop. \nAt this point, the participants of the Kids Tri were on the bike\ncourse.  While some weren’t as familiar\nwith the rules, Lee was able to keep us safe and [eventually] get them to ride\nproperly so we could pass.
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\nArriving back in T2, I drained about half the bottle of Skratch before we\nheaded out on the run.  While I\nremembered most of the course from 2017, I had forgotten about an important\nhill on River.  Even still, the portion\nthrough the woods and over the bridge was solid.  So were spurts along River.  However, when we hit Aurora in the heat and\nhumidity, things broke down a bit.
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\nWhile it wasn’t a perfect race, I did end up shaving 14 minutes off my 2017\ntime.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last year, a broken crank sidelined me from the race.  I tried everything I could to make it work, but had to eventually throw in the towel.  So I was really looking forward to this year’s race. Upon getting to the race site, I was surprised in the dark.  I thought that I knew where … Continue reading Naperville Sprint Tri – 8\/4\/19<\/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":[2],"tags":[350,30,7,302],"class_list":["post-832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-james","tag-dare2tri-3","tag-dare2tri","tag-james-gilliard","tag-naperville-sprint"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832","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=832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":834,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions\/834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}