Thank you to all considering making a gift to our Catalyzer campaign! We are so grateful for gifts of any amount! With our first $400, we will be able to buy an additional team road bike for club members to use during practices and races. This is especially important as we get closer to competing in outdoor races. Third year club member Isaac says, "Without the team bike I used last spring and summer, I wouldn't have been able to train as much as I did. Now, I'm excited to have raced three Olympic distance triathlons!"
We need equipment to be able to repair tire flats when they happen. Having extra bike tubes on hand will also allow us to teach club members how to change a flat on their own.
Pull buoys and kickboards are not always available at SPAC for swim practices, especially since COVID. We would like to be able to purchase our own kkckboards and pull buoys to be able to practice when public equipment is not available.
Safety is of the highest importance, especially when riding bikes outdoors. We would like to buy a few team helmets to allow members to borrow a helmet before they are able to buy their own.
At larger events like Nationals, we want every participant to be able to represent Northwestern with our team race suit. These suits are expensive, though, so we would like to have some team suits that members could borrow as needed instead of having to purchase their own.
Increasing our fleet of team road bikes for members to use during outdoor rides and races. As our team grows, adding to the number of road bikes we have is very important.