iRunFar Holiday Run Challenge on Strava
December 22, 2012 by Bryon Powell · 97 Comments
Get out and run 50 miles from December 24 through January 1.
Hey iRunFar Readers,
Bryon here with a challenge for you over the busiest part of the holiday season. Run 50 miles or more (we’d love to see what you can log) from December 24th through January 1st. Yeah, that’s nine days… but nine days filled with gravy and grandma, football and feasts, presents and parties. Amidst all of that, get out there and make some time for yourself and your running!
We’ve partnered with Strava to provide a public platform for the iRunFar Holiday Run Challenge. A little community (and pride) are great for motivating one to get out there for a run when it’s cold, you’ve stuffed yourself silly, and you still have 83 presents to wrap. You can do it! As a bit of extra motivation, we’ll be giving 10 entrants (all you need to do is sign up) their choice of an iRunFar hat or visor. Now get out there and run this holiday season – I know I will be!
Happy trails (and holidays),
Bryon
Ps. It’d be awesome if you left comments with accounts of some of your eventful or meaningful holidays season runs. Pictures are great, too!
How to Use Strava and Join the Challenge
You’ve never been on Strava? No problem, it’s easy. Sign up for free at www.strava.com with your email address or go to the iOS or Android app store and download the Strava Run app. You’ll need to either use a Garmin device or the app to record your runs for them to count.
For a Garmin device, once you’ve completed your run simply plug it in to your computer (make sure you’ve downloaded the Garmin plug-in!) and click the ‘Upload Activity’ button. Strava will recognize the device and then the activities to sync them with the website.
From the Strava app, start a run, put the phone in your pocket and when you’re done, hit finish! You’re all set.
Once you’ve joined the Challenge all your runs logged will automatically be updated on the leaderboard.
Need more info? Check out How It Works.
To make it even more fun? Find your friends on Strava using the Explore feature, follow them and then show them what you’ve got. Maybe give them kudos, maybe say something or maybe just stalk their activities so you’re motivated to go just a little bit further.
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Bryon Powell is the Editor-in-Chief of iRunFar.com, which he founded five years ago. Also the author of Relentless Forward Progress: A Guide to Running Ultramarathons and a contributing editor at Trail Runner magazine, he's quickly approaching 10 years as an ultrarunner and 20 years as a trail runner. These days he calls Park City, Utah and its trails home.
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I love the challenge. It gave me the motivation to run extra miles yesterday just so I could get closer to the 50 mile goal. Running the VHTRC Redeye tomorrow at Prince William Forest Park. I hope this puts me over the top.
I would do it if 95% of the trail runs near me on strava were not guys on their mountain bikes.
Jason,
You can run anywhere and count it. You don’t need to stay on trail segments noted on Strava. :-)
Thanks for organizing Bryon! Got my 50 running miles done plus 30 nordic skate ski miles. For sure more than I would have done otherwise. Strava is fabulous.
Ok getting ready to go out and run my last 4 miles. It will put me just a blip over the 50 mile mark. I manually uploaded my activities to Strava which I know won’t count . It has been fun regardless, a great way to stay focused over the holidays. Next year lets do a challenge between Thanksgiving and New Year.
Happy New Year,
Erik
I posted a report from the last run of my Strava challenge on my blog. Cold winter fun. Thanks for the extra motivation!
http://anthonybunt.blogspot.com/2013/01/how-to-train-for-50k-wrong-way.html