As we enter the fourth week of virtual Dartmouth Tri, the rest of the exec board and I have been brainstorming an assortment of challenges for our team to work towards. In addition to our weekly Zoom strength sessions and virtual training partners, we’ve been looking at ways to keep training and stay connected as a team. One of these challenges that I’m very excited to be able to announce is a virtual SBR to everyone’s hometown!
Last week, we sent our triathletes a survey asking them where their hometown was, and we got three dozen responses with hometowns across the continental United States. Those responses allowed us to construct a route starting at Dartmouth passing through everyone’s hometown. Over the rest of this term, we will swim, bike, and run this route as a team. The whole journey ended up being a little bit over 6,500 miles when mapped out, and as a team we will need to log just under 1,100 miles per week to reach our final stop in southern California.
While this goal may seem incredibly daunting at first (I know it sure did to me), Dartmouth Tri has collectively logged a lot of miles each week during the first few weeks of this term and so this goal is manageable for us. [Our team’s Strava page] is going to be the main way our athletes can log their training, and have it count for this challenge as long as it is a swimming, biking, or running activity.
Although we no longer have the Max Performance Season Opener and many summer races to look forward to this year, we think that this challenge will keep us plenty busy for the remainder of this term. As we reach important milestones in this challenge, we will post those on social media, so take a look there if you want to follow along with our virtual journey.
SBR,
Connor
About the Author
Connor Spencer ‘22 is a new member of the exec board majoring in mathematics and computer science. When not wrapped up in some problem set or another, Connor enjoys runs that are probably too long, crushing 5ks (as seen below!), and is also secretary of Dartmouth’s Magic: the Gathering Club.
