{"id":9038,"date":"2015-06-24T17:15:17","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T00:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/competitors-converge-on-lake-meridian-for-annual-triathlon\/"},"modified":"2016-10-24T03:00:33","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T10:00:33","slug":"competitors-converge-on-lake-meridian-for-annual-triathlon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/competitors-converge-on-lake-meridian-for-annual-triathlon\/","title":{"rendered":"Competitors converge on Lake Meridian for annual triathlon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>About 350 athletes swam, biked and ran the Lake Meridian Triathlon last Sunday.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The race featured three race lengths for both men and women divisions \u2013 sprint, super sprint and Olympic.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The sprint and super sprint both consisted of a 16.4-mile bike ride and 3.1-mile run, differing only in the swim distances &#8211; a quarter-mile for the super sprint and a half-mile for the sprint.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The Olympic course had a 1.5 kilometer (.93 mile) swim, a 40-kilometer (24.8-miles) bike ride and a 10-kilometer (6.2 mile) run.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Brian Falkowski, 40, finished first overall in the men&#8217;s super sprint with a time of 1 hour, 8 minutes and 46.9 seconds. Drew Magill, 50, took first in the sprint (1:15:05.4) and Kyle Hooker, 28, won in the Olympic course (1:58:53.8).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>For the women, Tammy Barnhart, 45, took first in the super sprint (1:31:18.6), Juliet Hochman, 48, won the sprint (1:23:50.3) and Julie Strong, 34, came out on top in the Olympic (2:21:03.2).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Another Lake Meridian Triathlon is set for Aug. 23. This is the sixth year for the Lake Meridian Triathlon.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lakemeridiantri.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 350 athletes swam, biked and ran the Lake Meridian Triathlon last Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":227,"featured_media":9039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-9038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9038"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9038"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=9038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}