{"id":566,"date":"2011-08-21T16:53:33","date_gmt":"2011-08-21T22:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/?p=566"},"modified":"2025-09-24T15:13:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T15:13:35","slug":"torstens-first-triathlon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/?p=566","title":{"rendered":"Torsten&#8217;s First Triathlon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What a great event!! Thanks to the county, the volunteers, and everyone who participated.  Torsten had a fantastic first triathlon in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.losalamosnm.us\/rec\/Programs\/Pages\/LosAlamosKidsTriathlon.aspx\">18th annual Los Alamos kids triathlon<\/a>.  Torsten did the 1\/2 Mile Bike and 1\/4 Mile Run.  He said he was &#8220;too hot&#8221; to swim, but also had gotten raw elbows earlier in the day, so didn&#8217;t want to swim.  It was an overall extremely positive first time, and he said he definitely wants to do it next year.<\/p>\n<p>Here is queuing up at the start (bike, run, swim was the order) &#8212; he ran into a friend at the start:<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/talus-and-heavner.com\/im\/gallery\/2011\/2011_LA_Tri\/#2\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=300 src=\"http:\/\/talus-and-heavner.com\/im\/gallery\/2011\/2011_LA_Tri\/imgs\/DSCF2056.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>After the bike, on to the run:<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/talus-and-heavner.com\/im\/gallery\/2011\/2011_LA_Tri\/#4\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=300 src=\"http:\/\/talus-and-heavner.com\/im\/gallery\/2011\/2011_LA_Tri\/imgs\/DSCF2065.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>The finish and medal:<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/talus-and-heavner.com\/im\/gallery\/2011\/2011_LA_Tri\/#5\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=300 src=\"http:\/\/talus-and-heavner.com\/im\/gallery\/2011\/2011_LA_Tri\/imgs\/DSCF2067.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>And most importantly, the post-race celebration!!!<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/talus-and-heavner.com\/im\/gallery\/2011\/2011_LA_Tri\/#6\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/talus-and-heavner.com\/im\/gallery\/2011\/2011_LA_Tri\/imgs\/DSCF2069.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/talus-and-heavner.com\/im\/gallery\/2011\/2011_LA_Tri\/#7\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/talus-and-heavner.com\/im\/gallery\/2011\/2011_LA_Tri\/imgs\/DSCF2071.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Torsten&#8217;s summary of the triathlon: &#8220;AWESOME!&#8221; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a great event!! Thanks to the county, the volunteers, and everyone who participated. Torsten had a fantastic first triathlon in the 18th annual Los Alamos kids triathlon. Torsten did the 1\/2 Mile Bike and 1\/4 Mile Run. He said he was &#8220;too hot&#8221; to swim, but also had gotten raw elbows earlier in the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/?p=566\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Torsten&#8217;s First Triathlon&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26Tpo-98","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=566"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1363,"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions\/1363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}