Hello! I’m Hannah, one of the captains for the upcoming year. My co-captains and I spent much of last term planning for the upcoming season, and, like many others, had our plans uprooted by the COVID-19 pandemic. However, thanks to our wonderful, creative, and ever positive coaches Katie ’18, Jim, and Jeff ‘76, we have come up with a fun and exciting training plan for this spring that will get people ready to race whenever the races start happening again.
Although most people join the Tri team because they are curious about the sport, the tend to stay for the community. Naturally, going completely virtual makes it a bit more challenging to keep up the community aspect that our team values so much. After lots of brainstorming, here’s what we have come up with:
- A weekly training plan with run and strength workouts, as many of our team members don’t have access to a bike or pool at home. The plan gives structure to those who want it, but the main goal is to help everyone stay active.
- A weekly group strength and mobility session held over Zoom! This will give us all an opportunity to connect and check in.
- Encouraging team members to go on runs “together” by calling another member of the team and chatting while they run on different routes- this has the added benefit of allowing people with different paces to run together!
- Prizes! Oympian and Ironman Sarah True has offered to work with her sponsors to send prizes to teammates who stay active and improve.
We have a few other things planned and are excited to work with our exec board and our team to make things run as smoothly and “normally” as possible!
SBR,
Hannah
About the Author
Hannah Lang (left in image below) is a '21 majoring in Quantitative Social Science. When she's not out training, she loves to cook and do global health research (currently focused on resource constraints and the COVID-19 pandemic).
