{"id":4872,"date":"2014-07-25T11:11:14","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T19:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/?p=4872"},"modified":"2014-07-25T11:12:19","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T19:12:19","slug":"4872","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/?p=4872","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach Junior Lifeguards STUD IRONMAN Competition, Tuesday, July 29th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/barefoot-beach-run.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4873\" alt=\"barefoot-beach run\" src=\"http:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/barefoot-beach-run-285x300.jpg\" width=\"285\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/barefoot-beach-run-285x300.jpg 285w, https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/barefoot-beach-run-142x150.jpg 142w, https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/barefoot-beach-run.jpg 626w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 285px) 100vw, 285px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, July 29th, the Long Beach Junior Lifeguard Program will have their annual Stud Ironman event.\u00a0 The competition is free and open to all, so family, friends, and swim teams are welcomed to participate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Check in for participants begin at 8:00am, at the Lifeguard Tower south of 1<sup>st<\/sup> Place, adjacent to the Villa Rivera Building.\u00a0 The competition begins at 9:00am.\u00a0 The race will start at 1<sup>st<\/sup> Place and end at 72<sup>nd<\/sup> Place.\u00a0 The competition is\u00a0a run \/ swim \/ run event <i>from rock to rock jetties.\u00a0 <\/i>It consists of running eastbound along the beach for a total of 4 miles, while stopping to swim out to 15 different buoys along the way including the Belmont Pier, for a total 2 mile swim.\u00a0 There is a 2-hour goal to complete this challenge.\u00a0 All Junior Guards that complete the event within\u00a02 hours\u00a0will receive a coveted \u201cSTUD IRONMAN\u201d t-shirt.<\/p>\n<p>Accomplishment of this feat is a milestone for these kids, as they have been training in the Junior Lifeguard Program for the past five weeks, leading up to this event.\u00a0 All are welcomed to come out and cheer them on.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The \u201c<i>In &amp; Out Burgers<\/i>\u201d Food Truck will be selling food at the finish line, after the event.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Please contact Lifeguard Captain Scott Dixon with questions.\u00a0 562-685-3102<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, July 29th, the Long Beach Junior Lifeguard Program will have their annual Stud Ironman event.\u00a0 The competition is free and open to all, so family, friends, and swim teams are welcomed to participate.\u00a0 Check in for participants begin at 8:00am, at the Lifeguard Tower south of 1st Place, adjacent to the Villa Rivera [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publicsafety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4872"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4875,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4872\/revisions\/4875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}