District Dash 2025

Sponsored by Rotary Club of Sudbury

Join us as we race (virtually) around District 7010 for the month of July to raise money for Rotary's Environmental Fund and win money for the environmental charity of project of your team's choice (if you're first to the finish line).

District Dash 7010 wants to promote clean, sustainable, healthy transportation and friendly competition between Rotary Clubs. And we want to have fun doing it.

What is the District Dash?

If you were to visit each club in District 7010, you'd have to travel 2921.4 km. In this event, your team will race other teams to see who gets from Peterborough to Val d'Or, and all the clubs in between before any other team does.

The trick is that you can only log kilometres travelled by intentional, human-powered, outdoor transportation. You can count kilometres that you've walked, run, paddled, swam, biked, roller skated, rowed however you move, as long as you're the engine. And it has to be intentional transportation -not the kilometre you walked doing your gardening or lawn mowing.

Follow your team's progress and see where you stand on the Leaderboard. And then get moving!!

Kilometres will be roughly equalized for time and effort. For example, if you bike a kilometre, the app will log one kilometre. If you walk one kilometre, the app will log four kilometres for you. If you swim one kilometre, the app will log twenty kilometres for you, and so on.

Teams can have up to five members. At least one of them needs to be a Rotarian.

Dash to the finish!

The winning team - first to 2921.4 km - gets medals, bragging rights, and the chance to select an environmental charity or project of their choice to receive 50% of the Dash's net proceeds.

A second set of medals and bragging rights will go to the team that logs the highest number of kilometres over the month.

A third set of medals and bragging rights goes to the team that logs the greatest variety of transportation for their kilometres - a little bit of everything, hopefully!

There will be no auditing of results as we expect competitors to follow the Four Way Test: "Is it the truth? Is it fair to all concerned? Will it build goodwill and better friendships? Will it be beneficial to all concerned?" It's a Rotary fundraiser. We trust you.

Tracking Your Progress

Each team member can log their own kilometres using our Google Form link.

We recommend that you download Strava or another fitness app to track your movement.

Your team can track its progress (and the progress of other teams) on the Google Sheet Leaderboard.

How to Register

The entrance fee is $300 per team and can include up to five members. Club teams and corporate teams are encouraged. Fun and friendly competition is really encouraged.

Email us to register!