{"id":2928,"date":"2016-03-13T20:31:22","date_gmt":"2016-03-13T20:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fellephant.com\/?p=2928"},"modified":"2016-03-20T15:43:11","modified_gmt":"2016-03-20T15:43:11","slug":"sierre-zinal-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fellephant.com\/?p=2928","title":{"rendered":"Sierre &#8211; Zinal 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve raced Sierre Zinal before, but decided to enter the tourist version of the event, which starts a few hours before the race.<\/p>\n<p>Ten months after back surgery, with a limp, an extra two stone and an ego which completely underestimated what I&#8217;d got into, it was nearly my downfall. I only managed to scrape round in just over eight hours. The cramps I endured were incredible, the first ones starting 7 Km into the route. On finishing the event I found myself wandering around aimlessly in a world of my own, unable to find my hotel, which was situated only a hundred yards or so from the finish line. My head was in bits. I was having an episode.<\/p>\n<p>Never again I told myself. Well, never again in that state. I&#8217;ve entered 2016 along with a few friends. Camping this time round too on a three day in and out campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The film footage here captures both walkers and runners. I have put together random footage which may, to some, seem odd. I don&#8217;t recall any of this in order when I think about it generally. So in a way, this depicts the way I think about the event.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/158833688\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"Sierre - Zinal 2015\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve raced Sierre Zinal before, but decided to enter the tourist version of the event, which starts a few hours before the race. Ten months after back surgery, with a limp, an extra two stone and an ego which completely &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/fellephant.com\/?p=2928\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fellephant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2928"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fellephant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fellephant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fellephant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fellephant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2928"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/fellephant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2950,"href":"http:\/\/fellephant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2928\/revisions\/2950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fellephant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fellephant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fellephant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}