{"id":34069,"date":"2025-07-17T07:09:39","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T12:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=34069"},"modified":"2025-07-17T07:09:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T12:09:39","slug":"why-take-chances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/17\/why-take-chances\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Take Chances?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/07\/16\/us-news\/beloved-long-island-surgeon-collapses-and-dies-after-north-fork-triathlon\/\" target=\"_new\">Beloved Long Island surgeon known for \u2018serenading patients\u2019 collapses and dies after triathlon: \u2018All around great guy\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Republic Tiger Tri is next weekend, but I won&#8217;t be doing it this year.  My multisport training has been&#8230;.  Well, what&#8217;s less than sporadic?  <em>Non-existent<\/em>?  I ran on the treadmill and rode a spin bike for a bit to prepare for the YMCA&#8217;s indoor triathlon this spring, but not much since even though my beautiful wife told the owner of the local Fleet Feet running shoe store she would do the Tiger Tri this year.  Circumstances, though, which include a bounty of contracts for us, have limited our training time, so, maybe next year.<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe not if they can kill you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beloved Long Island surgeon known for \u2018serenading patients\u2019 collapses and dies after triathlon: \u2018All around great guy\u2019 The Republic Tiger Tri is next weekend, but I won&#8217;t be doing it this year. My multisport training has been&#8230;. Well, what&#8217;s less than sporadic? Non-existent? I ran on the treadmill and rode a spin bike for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34069","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=34069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34070,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34069\/revisions\/34070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}