{"id":410492,"date":"2026-09-25T16:59:04","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T16:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/410492\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T16:59:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T16:59:04","slug":"captiva-drive-to-close-sunday-morning-for-island-triathlon-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/410492\/","title":{"rendered":"Captiva Drive to close Sunday morning for island triathlon | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"

CAPTIVA, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 Drivers heading to or from Captiva Island Sunday morning should plan around a temporary road closure for the South Seas Captiva Island Triathlon.<\/a><\/p>\n

Captiva Drive will close at Blind Pass beginning at 6:45 a.m. Sunday and reopen at 9 a.m., according to a press release from South Seas.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The closure comes as South Seas hosts its annual Captiva Island Triathlon, bringing triathletes, duathletes and relay teams to the island. The USA Triathlon-sanctioned event is part of the 2026 USA Triathlon State Championship Pilot Program.<\/p>\n

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Races begin at 7:15 a.m. with the Super Sprint Triathlon, followed by the Sprint Duathlon at 7:25 a.m. The Sprint Triathlon, Sprint Aquabike and Sprint Triathlon Relay begin at 7:40 a.m.<\/p>\n

Athletes will compete in several events, including courses featuring swimming in the Gulf, cycling on roads closed to vehicle traffic and running along the island.<\/p>\n

Race distances range from a 200-yard swim, 5-mile bike ride and 1.5-mile run in the Super Sprint to a quarter-mile swim, 10-mile bike ride and 3.1-mile run in the Sprint Triathlon, according to organizers.<\/p>\n

The event is being held at South Seas, located at 5400 Plantation Road on Captiva Island.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAPTIVA, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 Drivers heading to or from Captiva Island Sunday morning should plan around a temporary…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,11179,3788,53800,28,103392,30079,75229,16857,1553,162859,4571],"class_list":["post-410492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-captiva","tag-captiva-island","tag-cycling","tag-florida","tag-relay","tag-south-seas","tag-sprint","tag-sunday-morning","tag-swimming","tag-the-2026-usa-triathlon-state-championship","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}