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for a local sponsoring organization,
approached the Wilmington YMCA
— which was under the direction of
Jack Morris at the time — and a new
event for the area was born.
This triathlon, named the Pepsi/
YMCA Triathlon, would become the
first and now the longest-running
triathlon on the East Coast of the
United States. With 99 participants in
September 1979, it began and ended
in Wrightsville Beach.
The swimming course began then as
it does today at the Blockade Runner
Wrightsville Beach Town Hall served
as the the finish line during the 1981
triathlon.
Beach Resort’s sound-side beach.
Those first triathletes swam across
Banks Channel landing at the South
Channel Drive Mini Park on Harbor
Island. Today they exit the water at
SeaPath Marina.
The first triathletes followed a
training route favored by cyclists at
that time for the second leg of the
journey, leaving the beach and coursing
along Greenville and Masonboro
Loop roads, following Myrtle Grove
Sound Road south to Carolina Beach
Road, and crossing the Snows Cut
bridge, following Dow Road to Kure
Beach where the first water stop was
located. From there, the course ran