{"id":7612,"date":"2021-03-14T03:15:16","date_gmt":"2021-03-14T03:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=7612"},"modified":"2021-03-14T03:15:16","modified_gmt":"2021-03-14T03:15:16","slug":"the-uks-toughest-triathlon-deca-uk-in-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=7612","title":{"rendered":"The UK&#8217;s toughest triathlon? Deca UK in pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>38km of swimming. 1,800km of biking. 422km of running. Over 10 days. No matter how many times we read them, the numbers of Deca UK continue to astound.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>    Advertisement<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Launched by Brutal Events\u2019 Claire Smith last year (whose Brutal is one of the toughest irons in the world) and making its debut in October 2017, the inaugural race took over Eton\u2019s Dorney Lake \u2013 usually a beginner-triathlon honeypot \u2013 and attracted some of the most hardcore triathletes from around the globe, with the UK\u2019s 100+ iron finisher, Anthony Gerundini, naturally on the start line.<\/p>\n<p>Are these the 7 hardest triathlons in the world?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    Advertisement<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>But after 158:09:04 hours of racing, it would be Ireland\u2019s Gerard Predergast who took the honours, and in the process becoming only the second-ever Irish person to complete a deca tri in 10 days.<\/p>\n<blockquote  data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The winner of the first DecaUK is @jrbootcamp Gerard Prendergast in 158:09:04 <\/p>\n<p>An incredible performance <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/section>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tClick Here: <a href='https:\/\/www.ifootballshop.com\/liverpool-424.html' title='liverpool mens jersey'>liverpool mens jersey<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>38km of swimming. 1,800km of biking. 422km of running. Over 10 days. No matter how many times we read them, the numbers of Deca UK continue to astound. Advertisement Launched by Brutal Events\u2019 Claire Smith last year (whose Brutal is one of the toughest irons in the world) and making its debut in October 2017,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}