Ep. 522: A Transcontinental Triathlon Part 1 Revisited - Yannick Chaigneau
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2019
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Originally published May 25, 2017
A few years back, Yannick Chaigneau and Shirley Lam set out on an epic adventure they call the transcontinental triathlon. 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. This is one epic adventure!
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| 0:00.0 | that Pacific Crest Trail has about half a million feet of climbing. Imagine climbing up half a million |
| 0:06.9 | feet. Everest is 30,000 feet, more or less from sea level. It's kind of like climbing Everest |
| 0:12.8 | from sea level, I'd say about 18 times. This is the Adventure Sports podcast where we talk to athletes, adventurers, and business owners from around the world of adventure sports. |
| 0:27.8 | Whether you're climbing Mount Everest, starting a bike shop, or getting up off your couch to take your kids hiking for the first time, |
| 0:34.5 | we want you to have the motivation and inspiration you need to chase that |
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| 1:11.1 | So, you know, on Monday we talked to Susan Conrad about the inside passage and how much of a life-changing experience that was today we're talking talking to, this one goes way back, not way back, it goes back about two years. |
| 1:16.2 | And it's a couple who were just dating at the time. |
| 1:18.6 | Now they're married. |
| 1:20.1 | They did a triathlon that spanned a few continents. |
| 1:25.2 | And one of the aspects of the triathlon was doing the inside passage the |
| 1:29.8 | other one was biking the length of north and south america which um yeah talk about couple goals |
| 1:37.2 | geez um but this is a great great great adventure story and uh yonick is telling the story uh he's being interviewed by kurt and this is a great, great, great adventure story. And Yonik is telling the story. |
| 1:45.9 | He's being interviewed by Kurt. |
| 1:47.7 | And this is part one. |
| 1:48.9 | We're going to do part two on next Thursday. |
| 1:52.1 | But this is just once in a lifetime type of stuff that this couple got to experience. |
| 1:58.2 | And I hope you enjoy. |
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