{"id":31188,"date":"2023-07-03T07:49:53","date_gmt":"2023-07-03T12:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=31188"},"modified":"2023-07-01T08:03:44","modified_gmt":"2023-07-01T13:03:44","slug":"the-triathlon-cheaters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/03\/the-triathlon-cheaters\/","title":{"rendered":"The Triathlon Cheaters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not talking about people who participate in relays, where different people do different legs of a single triathlon.  Nor am I talking about people who actually cheat at triathlons.  For example, those who know how to swim.<\/p>\n<p>No, I am talking about the official IRONMAN\u00ae reading glasses I saw at Walmart.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/ironmancheaters.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Come to think of it, most of the serious triathletes I know are getting near 50 years old these days no matter how much the local timing company owner and running enthusiast tries to get kids into the sport, it&#8217;s members are aging.  Perhaps because one must generally hit a certain level of age and middle class to have time for all the training&#8211;which includes, generally, an expensive bike and a membership or daily drop-in fees for a pool that supports lap swimming (or going to a lake, I suppose, for open water swimming).  It&#8217;s not hockey, by any means, but it is not a sport without cost.  Which older people can pay in cash and in time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not talking about people who participate in relays, where different people do different legs of a single triathlon. Nor am I talking about people who actually cheat at triathlons. For example, those who know how to swim. No, I am talking about the official IRONMAN\u00ae reading glasses I saw at Walmart. Come to think [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31189,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31188\/revisions\/31189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}