{"id":45508,"date":"2019-03-28T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/sports\/the-chilkat-challenge-triathlon-is-back-for-a-third-year\/"},"modified":"2019-04-01T12:15:12","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T20:15:12","slug":"the-chilkat-challenge-triathlon-is-back-for-a-third-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/sports\/the-chilkat-challenge-triathlon-is-back-for-a-third-year\/","title":{"rendered":"The Chilkat Challenge Triathlon is back for a third year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chilkat Challenge Triathlon is returning for the third straight year out of Haines.<\/p>\n<p>The triathlon swaps the traditional swimming portion for paddling, and raises money for Alaska Clean Water Advocacy, a nonprofit working to keep Alaska rivers and oceans clean and productive.<\/p>\n<p>The race is slated for Saturday, July 6, about 30 miles outside of Haines. Race goers will ply the waters of Mosquito Lake and the Chilkat River for about 9 miles, cycle down the Haines Highway for 22 miles and finish with a 9-mile run to the Chilkat State Park.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/sports\/juneau-duo-solo-competitor-victorious-in-chilkat-challenge-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Juneau&rsquo;s Adam Moser and Alisha Falberg<\/a> have won the event for two years running. Last year, they completed the triathlon in 3 hours, 30 minutes, 3 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Registration for the triathlon is available at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chilkatchallengetriathlon.com\" target=\"_blank\">chilkatchallengetriathlon.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It raises money for Alaska Clean Water Advocacy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":425,"featured_media":45509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":6,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-45508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45508"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=45508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}