{"id":7770,"date":"2010-08-15T20:41:14","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T00:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=7770"},"modified":"2010-08-25T08:06:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-25T12:06:00","slug":"rosberg-tired-but-happy-after-first-triathlon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/rosberg-tired-but-happy-after-first-triathlon\/","title":{"rendered":"Rosberg tired but happy after first triathlon"},"content":{"rendered":"ngg_shortcode_0_placeholderNico Rosberg was exhausted but happy after contesting his first full triathlon.<\/p>\n<p>The Mercedes driver, now a triathlon aficionado like Jenson Button, completed the full Olympic distance of the world championship round in Kitzbuhel, Austria.<\/p>\n<p>Button recently completed the comparable London triathlon in 2hr14mins, and 25-year-old Rosberg finished the swimming, cycling and running event in Austria in 2hr7mins, according to multiple German media reports.<\/p>\n<p>DPA news agency said he was nearly disqualified at one point for a helmet violation during the 40km cycling stage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve never done it (a triathlon) before,&#8221; the German, who in Hungary had refused to disclose the name of the triathlon event to F1 reporters before departing for F1&#8217;s August break, said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a great event &#8212; very hard, but I had a lot of fun.\u00a0 In the last five kilometres, I had no energy left.\u00a0 How people can do it is amazing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a new passion for me,&#8221; Rosberg added at Kitzbuhel.<\/p>\n<p>After the cycling stint, 1.5km swimming leg and 10 kilometre run, he placed 44th overall, and 13th in the up-to-29 age category.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, next Thursday and Friday, Rosberg will be testing world championship karts with a clutch of fellow F1 drivers.<\/p>\n<p>Also to feature names including Fernando Alonso, Michael Schumacher and Jaime Alguersuari, the test will take place at the Lonato circuit near Brescia in northern Italy.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nico Rosberg was exhausted but happy after contesting his first full triathlon. The Mercedes driver, now a triathlon aficionado like Jenson Button, completed the full Olympic distance of the world championship round in Kitzbuhel, Austria. Button recently completed the comparable London triathlon in 2hr14mins, and 25-year-old Rosberg finished the swimming, cycling and running event in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[5262,5340,4],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7770"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7770"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8035,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7770\/revisions\/8035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}