{"id":18009,"date":"2019-12-12T19:53:57","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T19:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.challenge-family.com\/challenge-family\/uncategorized\/challenge-daytona-preview-daytona-distance-under-the-lights\/"},"modified":"2024-05-29T15:46:10","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T15:46:10","slug":"challenge-daytona-preview-daytona-distance-under-the-lights","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.challenge-family.com\/challenge-family\/news\/challenge-daytona-preview-daytona-distance-under-the-lights\/","title":{"rendered":"Challenge Daytona preview: &#8216;Daytona Distance under the lights&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Coming up this weekend CHALLENGEFAMILY will also draw a close to their season. It should be a good finish too, with the second edition of\u00a0Challenge Daytona\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/challenge-daytona.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.challenge-daytona.com<\/a>), based at the Daytona International Speedway<b>\u00ae<\/b> in Daytona Beach, Florida. The home of the Daytona 500 \u2013 the most prestigious race in NASCAR \u2013 the venue is seriously impressive and vast \u2013 though triathlon is unlikely to challenge the seating capacity of over 167,000, for a venue which is used to seeing cars travel at average speeds not far short of 200 mph.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Format<br \/>\n<\/strong>The race, which will be held on Saturday December 14th, is an interesting format, which they are calling the \u2018Daytona Distance Under The Lights\u2019, of a two-lap, one-mile swim followed by a 15-lap, 37.5 mile bike and then an 8.2 mile run, all held within the grounds of the racing circuit. That race format was enforced 12 months ago, when storms and lightening caused delays to the scheduled Middle Distance event (and a bike course which was due to use roads outside of the circuit), but the format proved such a hit with the Pro athletes \u2013 many of whom have had long seasons \u2013 that the self-contained Pro race format has been retained.\u00a0<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mk0tri247xhes049e3rr.kinstacdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/header-700x394.jpg\" alt=\"Challenge Daytona 2018 - Photo Jose Luis Hourcade\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Race preview<br \/>\n<\/strong>The article above is written by TRI247.com. If you want to read more about the race favourites -like Lucy Charles and Lionel Sanders- you can read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tri247.com\/triathlon-news\/elite\/challenge-daytona-2019-preview\">their full article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Live stream<br \/>\n<\/strong><em><strong>CHALLENGE<\/strong>DAYTONA <\/em>&#8216;Daytona Distance Under The Lights&#8217; can be followed live via Facebook Live on the Facebook pages of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ChallengeFamily\/?ref=br_rs\">Challenge Family<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ChallengeDaytona\/\">Challenge Daytona<\/a> starting at 4:20 pm local time. Commentary will be provided by Belinda Granger, Alicia Kaye, Jarrod Shoemaker and Dylan McNeice.\u00a0<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coming up this weekend CHALLENGEFAMILY will also draw a close to their season. It should be a good finish too, with the second edition of\u00a0Challenge Daytona\u00a0(www.challenge-daytona.com), based at the Daytona International Speedway\u00ae in Daytona Beach, Florida. The home of the Daytona 500 \u2013 the most prestigious race in NASCAR \u2013 the venue is seriously impressive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":18008,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18009","news","type-news","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Challenge Daytona preview: &#039;Daytona Distance under the lights&#039; - Challenge Family<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.challenge-family.com\/challenge-family\/news\/challenge-daytona-preview-daytona-distance-under-the-lights\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Challenge Daytona preview: &#039;Daytona Distance under the lights&#039; - Challenge Family\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Coming up this weekend CHALLENGEFAMILY will also draw a close to their season. 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