{"id":5,"date":"2005-04-24T21:21:07","date_gmt":"2005-04-25T03:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/schwie.com\/brad\/?p=5"},"modified":"2005-05-11T08:48:23","modified_gmt":"2005-05-11T14:48:23","slug":"theres-no-i-in-team-but-theres-an-m-e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/?p=5","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s no I in TEAM, but there&#8217;s a ME&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I rode in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ironmanbikeride.org\/\">Minnesota Ironman Bike Ride<\/a>, a 104 mile expedition across the southern burbs of the Twin Cities.  &#8220;The Team&#8221; I rode with was composed of a 5-time Northfield teacher of the year recipient, a Harvard soccer All-American, a Wayzata hockey ringer, and a freak with a bionic knee (yours truly).  During all rest breaks, &#8220;The Team&#8221; could be found huddled together discussing strategy of &#8220;sticking together&#8221; with an &#8220;all for one, one for all&#8221; mantra that would make a great like Bud Grant beam with pride.  After each meeting, Northfield wonderboy Ben Danielson and west-side Ward Schwie bolted out of the rest areas like bats out of hell, leaving the rest of &#8220;The Team&#8221; peering through the dust.  Only the times when Keren Gudeman devoured a Snickers bar at the rest stop did she emerge leading &#8220;The Team&#8221; (this occurred once).  Things appeared to work out though, as we all finished and returned home in one piece (sans Keren&#8217;s brutal fall on the hill before reaching lovely Lonsdale).  Like clockwork, the Bianchi performed admirably and my bionic knee once again stepped to the plate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I rode in the Minnesota Ironman Bike Ride, a 104 mile expedition across the southern burbs of the Twin Cities. &#8220;The Team&#8221; I rode with was composed of a 5-time Northfield teacher of the year recipient, a Harvard soccer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/?p=5\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}