The New College Tri

The New College Tri

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CLUB SPORTS

The Dartmouth triathlon club offers coaching, training plans, and camaraderie yearround—including a popular spring break trip to Florida, which was canceled this year due to the coronavirus. To stay connected remotely this spring, and despite the lack of races on the horizon for the foreseeable future, the team has been convening virtually each Wednesday for strength workouts on Zoom, logging workouts as a club in the fitness app Strava, and assigning workout buddies to each other every week to stay motivated. “It’s been so comforting being on Zoom calls with teammates, a reminder that this community is so strong and is here to support each of us,” says captain Andrea Sedlacek ’20.

The club’s 65-person roster is full of former high school athletes, but hardly any of them had completed a triathlon (a single race that involves swimming, biking, and running) before coming to Dartmouth. “I find that having three different sports in which to train helps to keep me entertained, motivated, and uninjured,” says Colin Goodbred ’21. “Teammates are able to mentor each other based on the strengths that they come in with and each person always has clear ways they can improve.”

Svati Kirsten Narula ’13

notes from around the green