INSEAD DASH: How a 20-year tradition was negotiated
This year marks 20 years of the Dash, an INSEAD tradition created in Singapore on 11 June 2004. 🎂
Not everyone knows how it started: in a cubicle conversation, Stephen Pickup and I (2004Js) debated who reached campus faster – Stephen on his motorbike or me on foot. 🤔
Anthony Houlahan overheard us and converted the discussion into the first-ever Dash. ❤️ 🙌
For a few years, Anthony kept this blog updated with news of the growing tradition – you can read his ‘enhanced’ report of that initial cubicle discussion here and watch videos of several Dashes in other posts.
Thierry Férey led the video coverage and production, creating the epic short film that immortalized all the excitement of that morning. 🙏
A tradition requires a second event: Thierry and other 2004Ds organized Dash #2 a few months later... and the rest is history.
It was wonderful to see an INSEAD post about the latest Dash!
Long live The Dash!
Thanks to all participants in the pioneer Dash: 🤗
- Anthony Houlahan (organizer and journalist)
- Thierry Férey (cameraman and director)
- Nuno Delicado (runner)
- Stephen Pickup (motorbiker)
- Nathaniel Jonah (infamous Human Cannonball)
- Joseph Baribeau (cameraman and member of the Human Cannonball support team)
- Shane Chesson (Human Cannonball support team)
- Hian Goh (ice-hockey player on rollerblades)
- Enrico del Prete (runner wearing very-fast red shoes)
- Erik Somelar (on bicycle)
- Jean Nabaa (motorbike and on-foot)
- Christophe BRIDOUX (Jean Nabaa support motorbiker)
- Anel Lentz (cameralady, may she rest in peace 🙏 )
- Candy Sing (cameralady)
- James Fulton (general Dash support and organization)
- Nicholas Gleeson (referee)
- Ranjit Dandekar (referee)
- Cedric Gouliardon (referee)
- Rafael Orta (spectator)
- Roger CHI (spectator)
(Great idea to make it non-competitive before anyone got hurt!)