{"id":1158,"date":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girovai2.wandcclients.com\/reaching-my-goal-on-a-mountain-bike-2\/"},"modified":"2014-08-19T08:12:43","modified_gmt":"2014-08-19T08:12:43","slug":"reaching-my-goal-on-a-mountain-bike-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girovai.com\/it\/reaching-my-goal-on-a-mountain-bike-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Reaching my goal on a mountain bike"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today was the hardest race I’d done in my life. I’d never struggled so much with a race before. Even though I didn’t even get onto the podium, having finished giving my 200% or more made me feel good, proud and gratified. I’d reached a goal I’d set a month ago: I started training and I went to that race, a year and a half after my knee operation.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"foto1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I tried so hard that there was a minute when all I wanted was a downhill, since 85% of the race was uphill. In minutes my body felt weak, I had cramps so severe that I’d never had before in a race, I had falls I hardly even felt, due to the adrenaline that got me back up in seconds, with no time to feel sorry for myself. What I enjoyed the most were the two long, totally extreme downhills.<\/p>\n

\"exp1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

When it seemed as though I would pass out, when I no longer had any more strength, in my mind I began to tell myself things like “I know I can, I am soul and mind … my body is a complement, but my mind is in charge.” By this point I had run out of water and moisturizing gels and I no longer had it in me to rally myself, which normally encourages me. So I started thinking about all those who have supported me and who share my passion: in my uncles and aunts, in Ivan, my BMX coach, who took me to the US world championships in 2001 when I was 15, in Paul, my friend from Puerto Natales who introduced me to the world of mountain biking, in my cousin, a wonderful person who, like me, was competing in the same race, in the friends I left behind in Valdivia, in Arthurito, who showed me all the trails where I train today and infected me with his enthusiasm and taught me his strength.<\/p>\n

\"exp2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Sport itself is beautiful, but the people you meet through it, makes it even more wonderful.<\/p>\n

\"exp3\"<\/a><\/p>\n

BY DENISSE PUSCHEL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today was the hardest race I’d done in my life. I’d never struggled so much with a race before. Even though I didn’t even get onto the podium, having finished giving my 200% or more made me feel good, proud and gratified. I’d reached a goal I’d set a month ago: I started training and I went to that race, a year and a half after my knee operation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biking-articles","category-patagonia-articles"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girovai.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/girovai.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/girovai.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girovai.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girovai.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/girovai.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girovai.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/girovai.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girovai.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girovai.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}