{"id":612,"date":"2020-11-03T11:34:37","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T11:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ironscot.com\/?p=612"},"modified":"2020-11-03T11:34:37","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T11:34:37","slug":"ironscot-a-wee-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpdev.ironscot.com\/?p=612","title":{"rendered":"IronScot: a wee history."},"content":{"rendered":"

I started out as a marathon runner \u2013 from zero to 26.2 miles, which was my first running race. Then, after 7 years I found an even greater <\/em>challenge: triathlon. Of course, having seen the video of Julie Moss crawling across the Ironman Hawaii finish line, it was all to do the same. I competed in triathlons for 8 years, then in Ironman triathlons for 10 years. I met fantastic people on my journey and some of my best friends. I\u2019m one of the original Yellow Page Peeps who used to hang out in The Tri Lounge<\/em>. These days I continue to exercise daily but no longer race for now, maybe one day I will take up the challenge again. As befits my name, I live in the wonderful capital of Scotland. Train safe and smile!<\/p>\n

I was the first GB triathlete to regularly base myself in Tucson, AZ to train for triathlons. Starting in 1994, I spent a month there (most of my annual leave from my full time job) training and racing too, in the warmth and sunshine. Yes, I have<\/strong> <\/em>ridden to the top of Mt Lemmon \u2013 once, on my own (the day after I\u2019d ridden to Mile 15 with friends)! I invented a Ben Nevis (at 4411 feet, the highest peak in the British Isles) bike hill rep session 3 x (5 x mile 0 to mile 1) with 5 mins rest, on Mt Lemmon, since the total ascent was close enough to the height of Ben Nevis, which I did twice a week. I swam at Hillenbrand at lunchtimes when the public could do so for $1 and met some of the best swimmers in the world. I love it out there so much I still go \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Visit my Triathlon Tips & Tricks page to see what I learned through naivet\u00e9, mistakes and experience!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I started out as a marathon runner \u2013 from zero to 26.2 miles, which was my first running race. Then, after 7 years I found an even greater challenge: triathlon. Of course, having seen the video of Julie Moss crawling across the Ironman Hawaii finish line, it was all to do the same. I competed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3,4,5,6,7,8,9],"class_list":["post-612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-biking","tag-cycling","tag-ironman","tag-running","tag-swimming","tag-training","tag-triathlon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpdev.ironscot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpdev.ironscot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpdev.ironscot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpdev.ironscot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpdev.ironscot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wpdev.ironscot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpdev.ironscot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpdev.ironscot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpdev.ironscot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}