{"id":21915,"date":"2013-08-15T01:19:53","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T23:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/triathlete-murray-aiming-for-world-series-medal\/"},"modified":"2013-08-15T01:19:53","modified_gmt":"2013-08-14T23:19:53","slug":"triathlete-murray-aiming-for-world-series-medal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/triathlete-murray-aiming-for-world-series-medal\/","title":{"rendered":"Triathlete Murray aiming for world series medal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t    <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/murray-set-for-worlds-toughest-triathlon\/richardmurray6\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7886\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-7886 \" alt=\"Richard Murray. Photo: Janos Schmidt \/ ICU\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/b3b9c_RichardMurray6.jpg\" width=\"373\" height=\"256\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Richard Murray. Photo: Janos Schmidt \/ ICU<\/p>\n<p>South African triathlete Richard Murray says he will consider his season a success if he earns another podium place in the next ITU World Triathlon Series race in Stockholm, Sweden, on August 24.<\/p>\n<p>It will be Murray\u2019s first outing in the Swedish leg of the series and he has been hard at work preparing for the event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStockholm is a course that has many turns and twists,\u201d he said. \u201cMy training is specifically towards the course preparation and some extra miles and speed have been done in my swimming and running to bring them to the forefront.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/murray-set-for-worlds-toughest-triathlon\/\" target=\"_blank\">Murray said he would give his all for a medal<\/a>. \u201cIn this race the break can stay away if the chase isn\u2019t good enough.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will do my best to bring the front swimmers back so that I can have a go for a medal. I\u2019m tired of sitting in the second group after the swim and then having to run really hard to make sure of a top five position.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Murray started the series with a second place in San Diego. <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/fourth-for-murray-in-hamburg\/\" target=\"_blank\">Since then he has been a consistent top-five finisher<\/a>, even though he often leaves the water 30 seconds and more behind the big guns.<\/p>\n<p>He says signing with his first full-time coach, Joel Filliol, has brought about some major changes this season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have worked together very closely at times and this has helped me to understand my body more. It has also shown in more consistent results this year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For more breaking ITU World Triathlon Series news, <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/tag\/itu-world-triathlon\/\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more breaking sporting news and views, visit MySport24 on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MySport24\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mysport24?ref=hl\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\">Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/murray-to-bounce-back-in-hamburg-triathlon\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/b3b9c_186503732_80_80.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/murray-to-bounce-back-in-hamburg-triathlon\/\" target=\"_blank\">Murray to bounce back in Hamburg triathlon<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/murray-set-for-worlds-toughest-triathlon\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/4967c_182594656_80_80.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/murray-set-for-worlds-toughest-triathlon\/\" target=\"_blank\">Murray set for world\u2019s \u2018toughest\u2019 triathlon<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/fourth-for-murray-in-hamburg\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/4967c_187442744_80_80.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/fourth-for-murray-in-hamburg\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fourth for Murray in Hamburg<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/4967c_zemified_h.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Murray. Photo: Janos Schmidt \/ ICU South African triathlete Richard Murray says he will consider his season a success if he earns another podium place in the next ITU World Triathlon Series race in Stockholm, Sweden, on August 24. It will be Murray\u2019s first outing in the Swedish leg of the series and he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[3258,830,885],"class_list":{"0":"post-21915","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mysport","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-sport","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}