{"id":90352,"date":"2023-06-16T19:13:52","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T13:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/?p=90352"},"modified":"2023-06-16T19:13:52","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T13:43:52","slug":"wilbert-egipsy-of-goa-finishes-full-ironman-race-in-phillipines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/?p=90352","title":{"rendered":"WILBERT Egipsy of Goa finishes full, IRONMAN race in Phillipines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Goa Khabar: <\/strong>Wilbert Egipsy (42) Calangute based, technology consultant has successfully completed the full, IRONMAN race ( 226 kms) in Subic Bay, Phillipines on Sunday, June 11.<\/p>\n<p>The full Ironman race is a combination of a 3.8km open water swim, a 180km cycle ride and a full marathon ( 42kms) to be completed in 17 hours.\u00a0 Egipsy completed the race in 15 hours and 44 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Egipsy who was born in the South Goa village of Velsao said that the race was tough and challenging, as the participants had to brave light to heavy rains throughout the course.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-90324\" src=\"https:\/\/goakhabar-com.preview.jikut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/16.06.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"241\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt least 10 triathletes gave up the race at the start of the swim stage of both the half distance and full distance IRONMAN races, as the sea was choppy with lots of debris floating around,\u201d Egipsy said.<\/p>\n<p>While Egipsy had a relatively easy cycle ride, he experienced many challenges in his full marathon run. \u201cI had pain in my calf muscles at the 4km mark, my knee bagan to hurt at the 10 km mark, but I somehow pushed through with the 42km distance,\u201d Egipsy said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-90174\" src=\"https:\/\/goakhabar-com.preview.jikut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/345059998_194276443452193_7616246637763085377_n-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/345059998_194276443452193_7616246637763085377_n-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/345059998_194276443452193_7616246637763085377_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/345059998_194276443452193_7616246637763085377_n-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/345059998_194276443452193_7616246637763085377_n-80x80.jpg 80w, https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/345059998_194276443452193_7616246637763085377_n.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-90173\" src=\"https:\/\/goakhabar-com.preview.jikut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/344915942_790444535804605_2288899076107171204_n-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/344915942_790444535804605_2288899076107171204_n-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/344915942_790444535804605_2288899076107171204_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/344915942_790444535804605_2288899076107171204_n-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/344915942_790444535804605_2288899076107171204_n-80x80.jpg 80w, https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/344915942_790444535804605_2288899076107171204_n.jpg 843w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Egipsy, a seasoned triathlete has completed two, Ironman 70.3 races in Colombo and Goa, nine full marathons, two ultra marathons, four, 200km cycle rides and a five km, open sea swim race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; \u00a0 Goa Khabar: Wilbert Egipsy (42) Calangute based, technology consultant has successfully completed the full, IRONMAN race ( 226 kms) in Subic Bay, Phillipines on Sunday, June 11. The full Ironman race is a combination of a 3.8km open water swim, a 180km cycle ride and a full marathon ( 42kms) to be completed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25169,"featured_media":90353,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3745,155],"tags":[3794],"class_list":["post-90352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-155","tag-featured"],"read":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90354,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90352\/revisions\/90354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/90353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}