Virtual Races for Students

Create Virtual races and Challenges for students on DistantRace.com, the ultimate platform for remote competition management and participant engagement.

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As an organizer of large-scale competitions, we offer a comprehensive suite of tools and expertise to ensure the success of your event.

Create a virtual sports event for universities.

Enhanced Student Engagement and Well-being

Promote active lifestyles among students to combat the sedentary tendencies associated with academic life, improving mental health and reducing stress levels.

Diversity and Inclusion

Cater to a diverse student body with varying interests and abilities by offering a wide range of activities. This inclusivity is crucial in a university setting, where the population is more varied in terms of age, background, and physical ability.

Alumni Engagement

Extend participation to alumni, keeping them connected to the university community through virtual challenges, fostering long-term relationships.

Sustainability Initiatives

Align challenges with university sustainability goals, such as promoting biking to campus, to engage the academic community in environmental stewardship.

Flexibility and Autonomy

Offer students the flexibility to participate according to their schedules, respecting their autonomy and varied commitments, which is especially important for adult learners and those with part-time jobs or family responsibilities.

For universities

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Usage demo for creating challenges

The video contains a demonstration of how to create a new challenge and invite friends or colleagues to join.

Real Races

These are traditional sport races where participants gather at a specific location to compete against each other in-person. Examples include marathons, triathlons, track and field meets, and swimming competitions.

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Virtual Races

These are races that are completed remotely, with participants competing from their own location. Participants typically track their own sport activities progress using a fitness tracker or app, and results are submitted online. Examples include virtual 5Ks, virtual cycling races, and virtual running challenges.

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Hybrid Sport Races

These are races that combine in-person and virtual elements. For example, a race may have a limited number of in-person participants who start at the same location, with virtual participants joining in from around the world. Participants' progress is tracked using an app or fitness tracker, and results are compiled online.

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Types of Races We Offer

You can create different real races, hybrid races or virtual races and challenges with your own rules.

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Virtual Races
Virtual Races
Real Races

These are traditional sport races where participants gather at a specific location to compete against each other in-person. Examples include marathons, triathlons, track and field meets, and swimming competitions.

Register via DistantRace.
Virtual Races

These are races that are completed remotely, with participants competing from their own location. Participants typically track their own sport activities progress using a fitness tracker or app, and results are submitted online. Examples include virtual 5Ks, virtual cycling races, and virtual running challenges.

Register via DistantRace.
Hybrid Sport Races

These are races that combine in-person and virtual elements. For example, a race may have a limited number of in-person participants who start at the same location, with virtual participants joining in from around the world. Participants' progress is tracked using an app or fitness tracker, and results are compiled online.

Register via DistantRace.

Create Virtual Challenges: Exciting & Simple

Virtual challenges are similar to the in-person running or cycling races, but they don’t require you to travel there physically. Anyone can participate in a virtual running challenge or virtual cycling challenge from anywhere in the world and anytime that suits one best. We have a great selection of virtual challenges for you to get inspired and choose from.

Distance challenge
Points challenge
Doing virtual track
Steps challenge
Calories challenge
Geo challenge
Distance Challenge

The goal is to collect as many km as possible in a sport discipline determined by the organizer - this can be: walking, running, cycling, etc.

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Active Days Challenge

Do sports for a certain amount of time in the day. How many active sports days can you collect in a month?

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Active Points Challenge

You can determine the value for one km completed by walking, running, cycling etc. Do multiple sports and collect points.

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Challenges with the Route

You can upload a route and participants can do their activities anywhere and move further on virtual map while doing activities in places, routes of their own choice. The goal is to finish the virtual track as fast as possible.

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Calorie Challenge

Try to burn as many calories as possible while doing any sport and convert them to electricity.

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GEO Challenge

The goal is to find a “hidden” objects and places by doing sport activities.

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It’s So Exciting to Be a Virtual Race Organizer

And easy. You can set up your virtual running or cycling challenge with few easy steps and also manage it on DistantRace.com. And We are Here for you 24/7.

It’s so Simple

Create your own Virtual Race or Challenge and we will do the rest. Organise public or private challenges, team or individual challenges: your event – your rules!

Wide Variety of Virtual Races and Challenges

You can organise different types of Real Race, Hybrid Race or Virtual Challenges - take any sport activity and create an event from it!

Have a new idea?

Do you have new ideas that can make your virtual race or challenge more exciting? Just contact us and we will adjust them in Distantrace.com platform.

24/7 support

DistantRace support team is available 24/7 to help you and your participants with any questions.

Make It Private

Your Race or Challenge can be public – available for everyone registered on DistantRace.com, or private – for your family, friends or colleagues.

Team vs Team

Instead of creating race or challenge for individual participants, you can create race or challenge where teams can compete with each other. This is a great opportunity to make your event larger and more exciting.

For universities

Create multiple sport events for your university.
Quick and easy.

Contact us

Receive a personalized offer instantly!

Ongoing Races and Challenges

What our clients say

DistantRace.com is a great project, and I really hope that this word will sound out in the world. This is the good way to organise competitions at any time and extend the cycling season, so I hope that cycling competitions will be organised during the winter as well.

Renārs Zaļeskis

Renārs Zaļeskis

participant of MTB competitions

I tried the competition organised at the DistantRace.com system and I can't wait for the next one. The format of the competition was great as well as competition track and technical solutions.

Ģirts Cirvelis

Ģirts Cirvelis

participant of MTB competitions

Distantrace.com is a platform where our company quickly and easily set up a challenge for employees. We liked that you could choose from different challenge types. And best of all, everything is automated - no screenshots to send, no need to send the results by yourself. Just do the sport and see how your colleagues are doing in the challenge table.

Līga Akmentiņa

Līga Akmentiņa

Challenge organizer

Convenient, professional, helpful and fast support system. A very easy way to organise a challenge and a good motivator for all colleagues to get moving. Highly recommended!

Armands Lapiņš

Armands Lapiņš

Challenge organizer

A good way to motivate employees to move out. And as an organiser, I barely had to do anything - the platform did it all. I recommend choosing a different challenge each month to make it more interesting for employees.

Rūdolfs Andersons

Rūdolfs Andersons

Challenge organizer

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