Come rejoice out of doors life and being on the water by shaking issues up at The Jewel Tri on Saturday, August 14 at Dreher Island State Park on the “jewel” of South Carolina, our lovely Lake Murray! This isn’t your typical triathlon. Nope. No swimming needed. You do must have a paddle or use your palms. Would you consider that is really categorised as a “dri-tri?” Strive telling that to anybody who falls in. The Jewel Tri is a singular occasion for this space with its mixture of paddle, bike, and run disciplines. You’ll be able to select to do all three legs solo or as a relay crew (2-person or 3-person), or as a tandem crew (each athletes end collectively). Carry your kayak, surfski, SUP, susceptible paddleboard, OC-1, OC-2, tandem kayak, a conventional canoe, blow-up unicorn. In case you can paddle it for 4 miles with one blades, two blades, or your palms, carry it! The 16-mile bike course is paved, so highway bikes can be finest, however any bike will do. The three-mile run course is contained inside the park and can be paved. To see all three programs, go to the registration hyperlink beneath then go to “Course maps” on the high.
Please assist us in welcoming Marcella Piesol to the Jewel Tri! She’ll be touring all the best way from California to grace our beautiful lake along with her mad susceptible paddleboarding skillz and we will’t wait to fulfill her! She is an incredible ambassador for Oceans Susceptible in Playa del Rey, California. Based in 2016 by Kurt Fry and DJ O’Brien, Oceans Susceptible’s mission is to develop the wonderful sport of susceptible paddling by making paddle boards accessible at affordable charges to encourage folks into the game. They supply classes and training for individuals who are new to the game and coaching for these making ready for the race season.
Seize a good friend or two or three, or member of the family or two or three and meet us at Dreher Island State Park in Prosperity, South Carolina on Saturday, August 14 for this multi-sport occasion on the “Jewel of South Carolina.” Proceeds will go to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society in honor of a neighborhood paddler, triathlete and good friend who was recognized with leukemia just some weeks in the past. You’re certain to have a good time with family and friends and expertise the camaraderie we’ve all missed this previous 12 months!
REGISTER HERE: https://runsignup.com/Race/SC/Prosperity/TheJewelTri
This was the write-up for the Leukemia TNT web page that the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of SC arrange for them:
The Jewel Tri is elevating cash for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS), and right here’s our why: Maddie,* certainly one of our Lake Murray paddlers, a triathlete and expensive good friend, was just lately recognized with leukemia just some weeks in the past (Could 2021). Maddie and her husband have had an unimaginable affect on the Columbia and Lexington athletic communities in numerous methods. If it wasn’t for this excellent individual and her husband of 52 years, many on this space would nonetheless be sitting on their couches wishing they might be a kind of folks they see exterior coaching for a marathon…wishing they might bike up Mt. Mitchell…wishing they might do a triathlon. Maddie and her husband don’t do it to face on a podium, though they often do. They do it as a result of they perceive all of the constructive advantages that come from serving to to type and prepare with an egalitarian group of like-minded folks. They do it for the enjoyment of being with one another, cheering one another on, and the camaraderie and true friendships that fashioned inside that group. They do it for well being. They do it as a result of they’ll.
There’s additionally a typical tie to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society that The Jewel Tri has with this athlete. Maddie and her husband ran their first marathon over 20 years in the past for Leukemia Workforce in Coaching (TNT) to boost cash, as I did my first triathlon for Leukemia TNT in 2000. Coincidence? I feel not. The threads are numerous of how this couple has influenced me and others in such constructive methods over the past 15 or so years since I first met them. They even rescued me from Goat Island after a protracted paddle coaching session that went improper on Lake Murray about two years in the past. They’re the form of couple that, “When a good friend asks for assist, you assist ’em.” No hesitation. Oh I’ve so many good tales about them. So in fact once we came upon about Maddie’s prognosis, it was a no brainer that The Jewel Tri assist out the identical group that helped give us higher lives via pushing our limits to do one thing we’d by no means completed to boost cash for LLS. Due to Leukemia TNT all these years in the past, we grew to become larger selves and continued to develop to be energetic in lots of different methods (like paddling), in addition to encourage others that they’ll do it, too.
When you learn this, Maddie might be strolling the flooring of a hospital in downtown Columbia, tiring out the nurses as they watch her on the transfer via the hallways. She could also be wanting down on the road from her window to see her pals collect to throw her one other little parade, dancing on the road nook to let her know everyone seems to be rooting for her. She could also be holding palms along with her husband — all whereas persevering with to obtain her first spherical of remedies.
The Jewel Tri is elevating funds via this occasion in honor of our expensive good friend Maddie to carry consciousness and assist discover cures and guarantee entry to remedies for blood most cancers sufferers. There may also be a silent public sale for native art work and items at this occasion. Proceeds will go to assist fund remedies that save lives day-after-day; like immunotherapies that use an individual’s personal immune system to kill most cancers. It’s possible you’ll not understand it, however each single donation helps save a life with breakthrough therapies akin to these.
