{"id":4343,"date":"2015-03-20T02:33:48","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T09:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teampossabilities.org\/?p=4343"},"modified":"2017-09-26T17:25:44","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T17:25:44","slug":"2015-racing-schedule-starts-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teampossabilities.org\/2015\/03\/20\/2015-racing-schedule-starts-in-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"2015 Racing Schedule Starts in Australia!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Greetings my friends,<\/p>\n

Here I am in “God’s Country,” Australia, a truly blessed place. Cannot believe this was a prison back in the day… Who really deserves blessings, forever, is Team PossAbilities and Quest Diagnostics, because without them, I would not be here now.<\/p>\n

This was my first racing event of the year, and the beginning of my Paralympic campaign, a journey that will extend onto mid 2016 –by then we’ll know for sure IF I will make the cut. A lot of focus on training my friends…eyes on the prize!<\/p>\n

This race was easily one of the most beautiful courses I’ve ever done. It’s within a Preserve untouched by men, where the kangaroos roam freely! There were a few strong contestants enrolled, besides myself and another “Brazo” representing our dear Brazil. Very hot on Race Day, which specially punished us on the run.<\/p>\n

I had problems on the Bike part of the race, with a flat tire on the third lap (of a total of 5), so that slowed me down quite a bit –but I had to ride like that. On a fast-paced race like the Sprint Triathlons we do, there’s no time to change a tire.<\/p>\n

I finished in 5th, and I’m happy I even finished it and also got some important points to start the year. It would just be very frustrating with the amount of training and $ that goes into an event like this, to arrive here and not finish my work.<\/p>\n

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It was a really good moment to test some modifications we’ve done in my prostheses. Upon my return, I already know what do I have to work on, modify and\/or improve.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I’d like to again thank Team PossAbilities AND Quest Diagnostics. Because of you guys, I’m living my dream and hopefully inspiring others on the way.<\/div>\n
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Much love, Andre<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Greetings my friends, Here I am in “God’s Country,” Australia, a truly blessed place. Cannot believe this was a prison back in the day… Who really deserves blessings, forever, is Team PossAbilities and Quest Diagnostics, because without them, I would not be here now. This was my first racing event of the year, and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"featured_image_src":{"landsacpe":false,"list":false,"medium":false,"full":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teampossabilities.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4343"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teampossabilities.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teampossabilities.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teampossabilities.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teampossabilities.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/teampossabilities.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6722,"href":"https:\/\/teampossabilities.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4343\/revisions\/6722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teampossabilities.org\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teampossabilities.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teampossabilities.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teampossabilities.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}