Hi everyone! Hope you all are staying safe and healthy amidst these times. The board and myself are greatly looking forward to the day we can all finally practice together again. Until that day, stay engaged, involved, and in contact! This writeup is intended to get the word out about our new website, and how we hope to use it to keep you informed in the future. Before I do that, however, it is very important that I give some massive credit to our teammate, Nikita Smyrnov, who went above and beyond to use his computer science skills to basically design the entire website. He put a ton of time and effort into this, and delivered an outstanding website that will be very useful and overall just looks great. If you get the chance, make sure to thank him for his work.
Most of the website is pretty self explanatory, however there are some cool new features that we hope to use quite a bit more going forward. The first of these new features are the training and social calendars. These calendars will be updated by the social coordinators and coaches, and will have all the information you need to know about where, when, and what we are doing at practices and social events. This way the board won’t need to spam you with emails all the time, only important reminders. Another important new feature designed to reduce email spam is that the travel form links will be put next to each race in the race schedule. Make sure you check that out. The final new addition to the website is the page that has all of the routes we run, in case you are new or aren’t familiar with a certain route. To those of you who know other routes that are not currently on the website, send me a link of the route made on onthegomap.com and I’ll add it. The rest of the website is similar to the old one, just with a bit of a facelift. It runs smoother and looks better, and is much easier for me to use to do my job (Thanks Nikita!)
Feel free to explore, and if you have feedback definitely let me know! Try to familiarize yourself with the site, since we hope to use it quite a bit more than the previous one. Like I said earlier, I can’t wait to see you all again, and until then, stay happy and healthy, and keep running!
Love,
Jeffrey <3