{"id":497,"date":"2023-02-14T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.iceman.com\/?p=497"},"modified":"2023-02-14T08:20:39","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T02:20:39","slug":"is-this-your-first-time-learn-all-the-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.iceman.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/14\/is-this-your-first-time-learn-all-the-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Is this your first time? Learn ALL the things!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:16px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If this will be your first time doing Iceman, you\u2019re in good company; it was EVERYONE\u2019s first time at some point! It was MY first time just this past November. This is a BIG event (in every way possible) and if that feels a bit intimidating &#8211; or even if it doesn\u2019t &#8211; it\u2019s highly recommended that you go in knowing as much as you can about it as you can. Your experience will be MUCH better if you do! The good news? There is plenty of fantastic resources available on the site to educate you now, before they say, \u201cRiders ready\u2026 Go!\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:35px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"840\" height=\"560\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.iceman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/untitled-3070-scaled.jpg?resize=840%2C560&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-503\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.iceman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/untitled-3070-scaled.jpg?w=2560&amp;ssl=1 2560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.iceman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/untitled-3070-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.iceman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/untitled-3070-scaled.jpg?w=1680&amp;ssl=1 1680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>About the author:<\/strong> Kurt Schaldenbrand has been racing bicycles since 1983. He\u2019s been a licensed coach working with competitive and developmental cyclists since 1990 and has been head coach for the University of Michigan Cycling team since 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If this will be your first time doing Iceman, you\u2019re in good company; it was EVERYONE\u2019s first time at some point! It was MY first time just this past November. This is a BIG event (in every way possible) and if that feels a bit intimidating &#8211; or even if it doesn\u2019t &#8211; it\u2019s highly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.iceman.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/14\/is-this-your-first-time-learn-all-the-things\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is this your first time? Learn ALL the things!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[69,165,72,139,179,141],"class_list":["post-497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-training","tag-iceman","tag-iceman-cometh-challenge","tag-kalkaska","tag-training","tag-training-tips","tag-traverse-city"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iceman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iceman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iceman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iceman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iceman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iceman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":510,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iceman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions\/510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iceman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iceman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iceman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}