{"id":1122,"date":"2008-09-28T05:14:04","date_gmt":"2008-09-28T11:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=1122"},"modified":"2008-09-28T05:14:04","modified_gmt":"2008-09-28T11:14:04","slug":"endurance-cyclists-fight-sleep-at-500-mile-time-trials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/28\/endurance-cyclists-fight-sleep-at-500-mile-time-trials\/","title":{"rendered":"Endurance cyclists fight sleep at 500-mile time trials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from www.star-telegram.com<br \/>\nBy RICKY TREON<\/p>\n<p>CLEBURNE \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Talk about pulling an all-nighter.<\/p>\n<p>For competitive 500-mile riders at the Texas Time Trials, the goal is to sleep as little as possible during the 48 hours or less they are on their bicycle.<\/p>\n<p>Vickie Tyer came into the event expecting to go sleepless because she wanted to finish the 500-mile ride in 38 hours.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My theory was to go straight through without stopping to sleep,&#8221; said Tyer, 54, who lives in Grandview and works at Fort Worth\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s John Peter Smith hospital. &#8220;I had it figured out that that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s where I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d be if I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t sleep.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>link to the full article at the <a title=\"Fort Worth Star-Telegram\" href=\"http:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/376\/story\/938277.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from www.star-telegram.com By RICKY TREON CLEBURNE \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Talk about pulling an all-nighter. For competitive 500-mile riders at the Texas Time Trials, the goal is to sleep as little as possible during the 48 hours or less they are on their <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/28\/endurance-cyclists-fight-sleep-at-500-mile-time-trials\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[63],"tags":[310,417,411],"class_list":["post-1122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-race","tag-cleburne-texas","tag-endurance","tag-texas-time-trial"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-i6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}