Gary Robbins, CMTR introduce virtual Spring Scavenger Hunt
The Coast Mountain Trail Running team is back with 20 more challenges for scavenger hunt participants to complete this spring
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Brice Ferre
Last June, Gary Robbins and the Coast Mountain Trail Running (CMTR) team organized a virtual running scavenger hunt. The event was such a success that Robbins and CMTR brought it back in the winter, and they’re now set for the third round with their upcoming CMTR Spring Scavenger Hunt. This “celebration of movement, training and running” begins on March 1, and participants have 60 days until April 30 to complete 20 fun and unique running challenges.
Friends, are you ready for another round of scavenger hunt fun?? Cause we sure are! The Spring Scavenger Hunt begins on March 1st and runs until April 30th. Registration opens Mon, Feb 22 at 7am PST.https://t.co/fYm1SnO7Al#SpringOfCMTR pic.twitter.com/naLzoNWe8B
— Coast Mtn Trail Running (@CoastMtnTrail) February 21, 2021
Open to everyone
Just like the previous two events, participants can complete the challenges by walking, hiking or running, and the Spring Scavenger Hunt is open to athletes from around the world. In the first two scavenger hunts, there were more than 20 countries represented worldwide.
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Runners unfamiliar with the previous scavenger hunts may be a bit hesitant to sign up for this event, as Robbins is a well-known ultrarunning enthusiast and the CMTR team organizes several ultramarathons. If you’re not an ultrarunner, you don’t have to worry, because most of the challenges in the Spring Scavenger Hunt are 35 to 45 minutes, with the longest coming in at around an hour.
As the CMTR site reads, the team has “strived to design an overall scavenger hunt that is friendly and attainable by absolutely anyone and everyone,” and the ultra distances have been left for the company’s in-person races. There is also no pressure on participants to run hard or fast for every challenge, and everyone can instead make them “as wild, as interesting, as social and as easy or challenging” as they like.
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The challenges
Like the previous scavenger hunts, Robbins and his team haven’t published the challenge descriptions, and they instead only released some of the run names. While it might be easy to guess what some of these challenges involve (the Street Artist, for example, sounds like it includes GPS or Strava art), others are complete mysteries (like the Waterfall Wonders and All Out 80s challenges — maybe runners have to run under a waterfall for one and dress up in 80s garb for the other).
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Registration
Entry into the Spring Scavenger Hunt costs $65, but the chance to compete in the 20 challenges isn’t all that participants will receive. Firstly, there is an online community for all participants, where everyone can post about their runs and support their fellow hunters. Runners will also be sent scavenger hunt buttons for all of the virtual challenges, or they can opt to receive a custom CMTR Spring Scavenger Hunt head wrap instead. Everyone will also get a finisher medal that has a bottle opener on it.
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In addition to the virtual event, CMTR is fundraising for local food banks in B.C. and the CMTR Scholarship Fund (an initiative that provides under-privileged runners with financial support to help them enter running events).
Registration is open from now until March 19. If you’re interested in signing up for the event or learning more about the Spring Scavenger Hunt, click here.
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