{"id":962,"date":"2015-07-23T02:35:42","date_gmt":"2015-07-23T02:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cindykuzma.com\/blog\/?p=962"},"modified":"2016-06-17T13:48:38","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T13:48:38","slug":"the-green-flash-blazes-through-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cindykuzma.com\/?p=962","title":{"rendered":"The Green Flash Blazes Through Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/asweatlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/asweatlife_The-Green-Flash-Blazes-Through-Chicago_3.png?resize=625%2C366\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"366\" \/>Lionel Sanders doesn\u2019t swim that well \u2014 at least, not for an elite long-distance triathlete. He typically comes out of the water about four minutes after the race leaders. But just wait till the run portion of the swim-bike-run event \u2014 about 10K in, he\u2019ll catch up. That come-from-behind strategy has served him well, making the 27-year-old Canadian \u2014 who visited Chicago on Monday \u2014 the youngest top-10 Ironman in the world. This year alone, he\u2019s won four out of his six half or full Ironman races and has his sights set on the Ironman World Championship in Kona in October. <a href=\"http:\/\/asweatlife.com\/2015\/07\/the-green-flash-blazes-through-chicago\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full article for A Sweat Life. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lionel Sanders doesn\u2019t swim that well \u2014 at least, not for an elite long-distance triathlete. He typically comes out of the water about four minutes after the race leaders. But just wait till the run portion of the swim-bike-run event \u2014 about 10K in, he\u2019ll catch up. That come-from-behind strategy has served him well, making [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[224],"tags":[225,258,82,226,259,202,205],"class_list":["post-962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-sweat-life","tag-addiction","tag-elite-athletes","tag-fitness","tag-ironman","tag-lionel-sanders","tag-training","tag-triathlon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindykuzma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindykuzma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindykuzma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindykuzma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindykuzma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cindykuzma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":963,"href":"https:\/\/cindykuzma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions\/963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindykuzma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindykuzma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindykuzma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}