{"id":84,"date":"2008-10-13T15:42:20","date_gmt":"2008-10-13T15:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/2008\/10\/13\/im_fl_2008_got_that_gaunt_look_again\/"},"modified":"2008-10-13T15:42:20","modified_gmt":"2008-10-13T15:42:20","slug":"im_fl_2008_got_that_gaunt_look_again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/archives\/im_fl_2008_got_that_gaunt_look_again.html","title":{"rendered":"IM FL 2008: Got That Gaunt Look Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About 5 weeks ago, I went to a dinner party with friends.  One of my friends whom I haven&#8217;t seen in a while looked at me and remarked that I looked like I was sick or something.<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s that gaunt look again.  Every race, about a month before, my skin starts pulling tight against my frame.  My fat starts to fly off, although I don&#8217;t see much change in my weight until about a few days right before the race.  Then it drops precipitiously.  It happens every time.  It&#8217;s a natural bodily reaction to peaking for an Iron distance race.  Get all that decelerating fat off me; get slim and ready to move fast and for a long distance too.<br \/>\nMan, that gaunt look makes me look like I have some serious illness.  But it&#8217;s just a normal thing.  No big deal.  Will get back to Fat Dave after the race.  Haha.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 5 weeks ago, I went to a dinner party with friends. One of my friends whom I haven&#8217;t seen in a while looked at me and remarked that I looked like I was sick or something. There&#8217;s that gaunt look again. Every race, about a month before, my skin starts pulling tight against my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ironman-florida-11-1-08"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}