{"id":7536,"date":"2021-03-13T22:23:02","date_gmt":"2021-03-13T22:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=7536"},"modified":"2021-03-13T22:23:02","modified_gmt":"2021-03-13T22:23:02","slug":"beauty-and-the-beast-returns-to-st-croix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=7536","title":{"rendered":"Beauty and the Beast returns to St. Croix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>After a brief post-Ironman 70.3 hiatus, middle-distance racing returns to St. Croix on 2nd December 2018 with the rebranded Beauty &amp; the Beast Triathlon. Profits from the event will be donated to the post-Hurricane Irma recovery efforts in the US Virgin Islands.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>    Advertisement<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The legendary race began life in 1988 as the America\u2019s Paradise Triathlon, and will once again offer more Caribbean splendour of turquoise waters, golden sands and sub-tropical rainforests\u2026 and the legendary \u2018Beast\u2019 climb that delivers a sucker punch for anyone who forgets this is one of the toughest middle-distance races on the planet.<\/p>\n<p>The December 2018 event will offer three races: Long Distance Course (2km swim\/90km bike\/21km run), a sprint and a sprint aquathlon.\u00a0Relays are offered in the Long Distance Course and Sprint Triathlon races. In addition, the Long Distance Course race is designated as the Caribbean Long Distance Triathlon Championship.<\/p>\n<div    >\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re are bringing the race back to its initial grassroots nature,\u201d says race organiser Theresa Harper after Ironman dropped their 70.3 event in 2017. \u201cOnce again as an independent race, we\u2019re focusing on community involvement.\u00a0Our goal is to bring back legendary pro triathletes who were part of the beginning years of making history on St. Croix.\u00a0So far we have Michellie Jones, Karen Smyers and Wendy Ingraham coming. Karen has offered to put on a tri clinic as a contribution to our post-hurricane recovery efforts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cNearly 100% of the proceeds of this year\u2019s race, including the clinic, will be donated to several local non-profits who were devastated by Hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017,\u201d adds Harper.\u00a0\u201cRecovery is happening (slowly) but there are still many homes without roofs and businesses that have yet to reopen.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Those who came and conquered St. Croix over the past 30 years essentially reads like a who\u2019s who of the sport\u2019s legends. That cast list has included Mark Allen, Scott Tinley, Dave Scott, Scott Molina, Mike Pigg, Paula Newby-Fraser, Erin Baker, Karen Smyers, Greg Welch, Michellie Jones, Natasha Badmann and Spencer Smith.<\/p>\n<p>    Advertisement<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Head to stxtriathlon.com for more information on the Beauty &amp; the Beast Triathlon.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p>Click Here: <a href='https:\/\/www.ifootballshop.com\/liverpool-424.html' title='liverpool mens jersey'>liverpool mens jersey<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a brief post-Ironman 70.3 hiatus, middle-distance racing returns to St. Croix on 2nd December 2018 with the rebranded Beauty &amp; the Beast Triathlon. Profits from the event will be donated to the post-Hurricane Irma recovery efforts in the US Virgin Islands.\u00a0 Advertisement The legendary race began life in 1988 as the America\u2019s Paradise Triathlon,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}