{"id":3609,"date":"2015-05-28T12:11:13","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T16:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/?p=3609"},"modified":"2015-05-28T12:11:13","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T16:11:13","slug":"to-race-or-not-to-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/28\/to-race-or-not-to-race\/","title":{"rendered":"To Race or Not To Race?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3610\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3610\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/pixabay\/c\/start_line_1432824701.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3610\" src=\"http:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/pixabay\/c\/start_line_1432824701-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/pixabay\/c\/start_line_1432824701-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/pixabay\/c\/start_line_1432824701.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3610\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pixabay.com\/users\/Hans\/\">Hans<\/a> \/ Pixabay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This week, the athlete&#8217;s guide for my next big triathlon came out.\u00a0 Next month, I&#8217;m doing the Challenge Williamsburg Olympic Triathlon.\u00a0 For you non-triathletes, that means it&#8217;s kind of sort of twice as long as the last race I did.\u00a0 The swim in 0.9 miles (1500m), the bike is 24 miles, and the run is a 10k.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve done an oly before, but the distance is still a bit intimidating.\u00a0 Well, it&#8217;s not so much the distance, it&#8217;s the time limit.\u00a0 4 hours and 15 minutes.\u00a0 I can do it, but if anything goes wrong, it&#8217;s questionable.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, while I&#8217;m freaking about my next race, I&#8217;m also considering signing up for another triathlon.\u00a0 But a sprint distance, of course.<\/p>\n<p>You see, I don&#8217;t have any races in July.\u00a0 This is intentional.\u00a0 July is hot.\u00a0 But now two of my friends are signed up for a particular race mid-month.\u00a0 And I could go race with them.\u00a0 It would be good practice.\u00a0 And if my race in June goes poorly, this forces me right back out there.\u00a0 And it&#8217;s only a sprint distance.\u00a0 These are all good reasons.<\/p>\n<p>So I am debating.\u00a0 Do I want to add another race to my schedule when I&#8217;m already freaking out about the races I have?\u00a0 Should I do it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, the athlete&#8217;s guide for my next big triathlon came out.\u00a0 Next month, I&#8217;m doing the Challenge Williamsburg Olympic Triathlon.\u00a0 For you non-triathletes, that means it&#8217;s kind of sort of twice as long as the last race I did.\u00a0 The swim in 0.9 miles (1500m), the bike is 24 miles, and the run is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[115],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>To Race or Not To Race? 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