{"id":8041,"date":"2021-05-07T06:02:59","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T06:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=8041"},"modified":"2021-05-07T06:02:59","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T06:02:59","slug":"reigning-ironman-world-champions-conquer-in-dubai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=8041","title":{"rendered":"Reigning Ironman world champions conquer in Dubai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/div>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2015 ironman Champions Jan Frodeno and Daniela Ryf have won Ironman 70.3 Dubai, the first race of the Nasser Bin Hamad Triple Crown series.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>    Advertisement<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0Blustery conditions and ocean swells forced organisers to move the swim and shorten the course to 1,200 meters, with an additional 750 meters to run to transition. The 90-kilometer cycle loop presented competitors with a tailwind out and a headwind of up to 20 miles per hour coming back in. three circuits of a seven-kilometer loop on unshaded jog paths was the final hurdle.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Frodeno led from the swim and finished in a time of 3 hours, 34 minutes, 48 seconds.<\/p>\n<div    >\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cIt was really tough out there, but this course is very fast,\u201d he said. \u201cI had a real dream of a day, one of those days you can just push with the pace the whole day. It was a perfect day for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Ryf faced a little more challenge to her lead on the women\u2019s side. Swiss compatriot Caroline Steffen was nipping at her heels from the swim and took the early lead on the bike. However Ryf came back at her in the final third of the ride to get onto the run two minutes ahead of Steffen. She held that lead with a steady run, finishing in 4 hours, 1 minute, 9 seconds.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m really happy actually, it\u2019s a great start,\u201d She said. \u201cBig compliment to Caroline. I think she did really good in the first 50km on the bike. She really pushed the pace and she was really hurting me and then I tried to wait a bit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cI started to hurt more, then in the last 40km I wanted to see where my legs were and decided to push a little bit harder. Every time I wanted to slow down I pushed harder, that\u2019s pretty much the tactic. With the wind and the carpet on the floor the run felt quite slow, but I\u2019m really happy.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cI\u2019m 37 years of age and I can still out-sprint the young ones. I\u2019m quite happy with that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>    Advertisement<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Images \u00a9 Delly Carr \/ Bahrain ENDURANCE Media<\/p>\n<p>Read\u00a0Jan Frodeno\u2019s 10 top tips for stepping up to iron distance<\/p>\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.jerstores.com\/Teams\/Teams-NRL-Telstra-Premiership\/Teams-Roosters' title='sydney roosters rugby store'>sydney roosters rugby store<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2015 ironman Champions Jan Frodeno and Daniela Ryf have won Ironman 70.3 Dubai, the first race of the Nasser Bin Hamad Triple Crown series. Advertisement \u00a0Blustery conditions and ocean swells forced organisers to move the swim and shorten the course to 1,200 meters, with an additional 750 meters to run to transition. The 90-kilometer cycle&#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-8041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8041","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=8041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}