{"id":2830,"date":"2014-09-15T08:31:59","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T08:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2830"},"modified":"2014-09-15T08:31:59","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T08:31:59","slug":"ironman-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2830","title":{"rendered":"Ironman Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEARLY 2,000 athletes travelled to Wales from across the world this weekend, including our own FODAC athlete <strong>Julian Boon<\/strong>, as Pembrokeshire played\u00a0host\u00a0to one of the world&#8217;s toughest sporting events. \u00a0Ironman Wales is a long-distance triathlon in Tenby: a gruelling 2.4-mile swim, 112-mile bike ride and 26.2-mile run.<\/p>\n<p>According to the event\u2019s website, North Beach is \u201cone of the most iconic settings for an Ironman swim anywhere in the world.\u201d \u00a0By 6am, caf\u00e9s in the town were full of spectators enjoying an early morning breakfast and the course looked dramatic as the sun rose behind St Catherine\u2019s Island. \u00a0The cheering was deafening as the competitors, dressed in bright green swimming caps and black wetsuits, sprinted into the sea.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/JB-Ironman-scenic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2831\" alt=\"JB Ironman scenic\" src=\"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/JB-Ironman-scenic.jpg\" width=\"1023\" height=\"681\" srcset=\"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/JB-Ironman-scenic.jpg 1023w, http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/JB-Ironman-scenic-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1023px) 100vw, 1023px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two British men finished in the top eight &#8211; Harry Springall, from Leeds, and Charlie Pennington, from Portsmouth.<\/p>\n<p>Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay was among 2,000 athletes signed up to take part, but he was forced to pull out due a severe tear of his Achilles tendon.<\/p>\n<p>Julian finished in a total time of 13.44.10. \u00a0(Swim \u00a01:20:45; bike 6:56:52; run 5:04:09)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/JB-Ironman-bike.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2832\" alt=\"JB Ironman bike\" src=\"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/JB-Ironman-bike.jpg\" width=\"456\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/JB-Ironman-bike.jpg 456w, http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/JB-Ironman-bike-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 456px) 100vw, 456px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEARLY 2,000 athletes travelled to Wales from across the world this weekend, including our own FODAC athlete Julian Boon, as Pembrokeshire played\u00a0host\u00a0to one of the world&#8217;s toughest sporting events. \u00a0Ironman Wales is a long-distance triathlon in Tenby: a gruelling 2.4-mile &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2830\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2833,"href":"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830\/revisions\/2833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}