{"id":11260,"date":"2026-01-01T09:46:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T09:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/veronika-bracke-reporting-on-her-ironman-70-3-india-in-goa\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T09:46:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T09:46:49","slug":"veronika-bracke-reporting-on-her-ironman-70-3-india-in-goa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/veronika-bracke-reporting-on-her-ironman-70-3-india-in-goa\/","title":{"rendered":"Veronika Bracke reporting on her Ironman 70.3 India in Goa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"featured-img\">\n     <\/div>\n<p>Some races are not about times or PBs. Ironman 70.3 Goa was one of those<br \/>races for me.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><\/figure>\n<p>More than five years ago, my first attempt at this distance ended in the<br \/>heart failure ICU, not at a finish line. Coming back to a 70.3 took time<br \/>&#8211; physically, but even more mentally. I needed a lot of confidence to<br \/>even consider trying again. This race happened because my husband simply<br \/>signed me up and because so many people believed in me and supported me<br \/>all the way back to that start line.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Pre-race week: settling into Goa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We had a great pre-race&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sported.ae\/insights-inspiration\/veronika-bracke-reporting-on-her-ironman-70-3-india-in-goa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some races are not about times or PBs. Ironman 70.3 Goa was one of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}