{"id":152,"date":"2006-10-26T18:53:30","date_gmt":"2006-10-26T17:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/wordpress\/?p=152"},"modified":"2016-04-30T10:28:38","modified_gmt":"2016-04-30T09:28:38","slug":"uwe-widmann-out-of-kailua-kona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/26\/uwe-widmann-out-of-kailua-kona\/","title":{"rendered":"Uwe Widmann out of Kailua Kona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kailua Kona, Hawaii, 4 days after the big race. IRONMAN world championship.<br \/>Well on Saturday was a tough day. The weather has been extreme in the weeks preceding the race and today was no different. We had rain, for a lot of the ride and then high humidity for the run. I had an average swim to be 60 seconds behind the main pack of contenders and onto the bike in 44th.<\/p>\n<p>I was riding well with a huge group including Cameron Widoff, Rutger Beke, Francois Chabeaud, &#8230;.<br \/>But, I never felt very good on the bike.<br \/>Some of these guys had top ten finishes here in Hawaii over the last years. So I tried to stay calm and patient during the 180 km ride.<\/p>\n<p>We were off the bike about 15 minutes down on Stadler. I was out of transition in 16th and thought I could run well, but it didn&#8217;t take long before I started falling behind and got passed by other runners. I was hoping I would start coming right. I did for a while but after the famous Energy Lab the wheels fell off completely and I was down to a slow jog for the last 10km. Also my motivation has gone! My goal was to break into the top ten and at the end I still managed 23rd.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/biest-blog.typepad.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/uwe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; float: left;\" title=\"Uwe\" alt=\"Uwe\" src=\"http:\/\/biest-blog.typepad.com\/biest_blog\/images\/uwe.jpg\" width=\"390\" height=\"292\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was a shocker of a run, but I am motivated to give it another try the next years and kick some butts. Now it&#8217;s time to have a well earned 4-5 weeks off away from training after a long year.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you once again for all your support, hope to catch up soon. <br \/>Take care and all the best.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uwewidmann.de\">www.uwewidmann.de<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uwe Widmann&#8217;s report from Kailua Kona. No top ten place, thus, Uwe could not be happy with his race. But he is motivated to try again next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2294],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4816,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions\/4816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}