{"id":8040,"date":"2021-05-07T05:58:41","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T05:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=8040"},"modified":"2021-05-07T05:58:41","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T05:58:41","slug":"new-icelandic-race-for-challenge-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=8040","title":{"rendered":"New Icelandic race for Challenge Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The half-distance triathlon will take place on 23 July in the stunning \u2018Bay of Whales\u2019 and the athletes will swim 1.9km in an untouched crystal clear glacial lake left by the glacial melt of the Ice Age 10,000 years ago.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>    Advertisement<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The one loop 90km bike race with rolling hills and short climbs in the old main road is one the most iconic bike routes in Iceland, while a beautiful country road with long hills will be the scene for the 21.1 km run course.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe idea started with a vision of a long course race with an open water swim since the races in Iceland have almost all been in pools due to cold water,\u201d said Vidar Bragi Thorsteinsson, the founder of the race.<\/p>\n<div    >\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cOur race has grown successfully from the first races and now we are extremely proud of being selected to the <em>Challenge <\/em><em>Family<\/em> \u201c. \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cIceland is one of those magical countries and its beauty is out of this world,\u201d said Challenge<em>Family<\/em> CEO, Zibi Szlufcik.<\/p>\n<p>Click Here: <a href='https:\/\/www.shopskm.com\/rugby-Jerseys\/NRL-Telstra-Premiership\/Dragons' title='cheap dragons jersey'>cheap dragons jersey<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Challenge\u00a0<\/em><em>Family<\/em>\u2019s commitment to providing iconic races in iconic destinations that stand apart in terms of quality makes Iceland the perfect Challenge race destination and Vidar and his team the perfect partners. We are very much looking forward to introducing more people to this spectacular part of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>    Advertisement<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0Registration for the race\u00a0is now open; for further information visit www.challengeiceland.is .\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The half-distance triathlon will take place on 23 July in the stunning \u2018Bay of Whales\u2019 and the athletes will swim 1.9km in an untouched crystal clear glacial lake left by the glacial melt of the Ice Age 10,000 years ago. Advertisement The one loop 90km bike race with rolling hills and short climbs in the&#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-8040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8040","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=8040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}