{"id":21213,"date":"2008-08-15T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2008-08-15T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2008\/08\/15\/the-seattle-danskin-womens-triathlon-2008\/"},"modified":"2008-08-15T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2008-08-15T10:00:01","slug":"the-seattle-danskin-womens-triathlon-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20080815-01\/?p=21213","title":{"rendered":"The Seattle Danskin Women&#8217;s Triathlon 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Sunday will be the Nth annual Seattle <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danskin.com\/triathlon.html\"> Danskin Women&#8217;s Triathlon<\/a> (for some value of N greater than 1), the largest women-only triathlon. I learned about this event last year when I saw that the express lanes on the I-90 bridge were crowded with bicyclists, and I went online to try to figure out what was going on.<\/p>\n<p> As I clicked around, I found the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattledanskintri.info\/\"> Volunteer Site<\/a> and was particularly impressed with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattledanskintri.info\/Volunteer\/Positions.asp#Swim%20Angel\"> Swim Angels<\/a>. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.danskin.com\/angels.html\">More details<\/a>.) These are strong women swimmers whose job it is to accompany the weaker swimmers and provide moral support. <\/p>\n<p> I was chatting with a friend of mine, who noted that one of the first volunteer positions to fill is the &#8220;Help the women change out of their wetsuits in the transition area.&#8221; Go figure. <\/p>\n<p> Best wishes to all of this weekend&#8217;s participants! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Sunday will be the Nth annual Seattle Danskin Women&#8217;s Triathlon (for some value of N greater than 1), the largest women-only triathlon. I learned about this event last year when I saw that the express lanes on the I-90 bridge were crowded with bicyclists, and I went online to try to figure out what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-21213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>This Sunday will be the Nth annual Seattle Danskin Women&#8217;s Triathlon (for some value of N greater than 1), the largest women-only triathlon. I learned about this event last year when I saw that the express lanes on the I-90 bridge were crowded with bicyclists, and I went online to try to figure out what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}