Ep. 274: A Transcontinental Triathalon - Part 2 - Yannick Chaigneau
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2017
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Yannick Chaigneau and his future wife Shirley set out on an epic adventure they call the transcontinental triathalon. They started in Alaska and kayaked the inside passage down to Washington. After that, they thru-hiked the entire Pacific Crest Trail down to Mexico. Once off the trail, they hopped on their bikes to complete the journey of a lifetime by biking their way down through Central and South America to Ushuaia. They even did some mountaineering to keep from being bored on the bikes!! Check it out. This is one epic adventure!
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| 0:00.0 | while the other person start chasing my wife. |
| 0:02.3 | So we're each moving as fast as we can with a person with a gun behind us. |
| 0:08.1 | And after, you know, a few seconds of running, two rounds got fired at me. |
| 0:14.3 | And it felt really close. |
| 0:16.4 | I could feel the bullet brushing my legs because I was wearing shorts. |
| 0:20.5 | And then I started derailing. |
| 0:22.2 | My bike started grinding. |
| 0:24.0 | Like I can push too hard on the pedals. |
| 0:26.6 | Episode 274, a transcontinental triathlon with Yannick Shenou, part two. |
| 0:32.8 | You're listening to the Adventure Sports podcast brought to you by 180 Tech. |
| 0:37.0 | We talk with adventurers from around the |
| 0:38.7 | globe to bring you the inspiration and motivation you need to get started in the outdoors or to keep you moving if you're already there. |
| 0:45.3 | Now here's your host, Kurt Linville. |
| 0:51.0 | All right, here's part two of the Transcontinental Triathlon episode with Yannik Shano. |
| 1:00.1 | If you guys haven't caught part one, it's episode 273 right before this one, so go check that one out first. |
| 1:06.1 | I hope you all are having a great Memorial Day weekend, and I hope you're able to get out there and have |
| 1:10.9 | some fun yourselves. |
| 1:12.5 | And now on with the show. |
| 1:18.5 | I just can't imagine. |
| 1:20.0 | I mean, any one of these three things is a major epic trip, right? |
| 1:24.3 | And now you just finished paddling 1,200 miles, walking 2,700 miles. You've been going |
| 1:32.1 | at this for, oh, let's see, you are, what, nine months into it? Yeah, about seven, eight months in. |
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