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Progressive Steps Challenge with Fitness Trackers

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The Steps Challenge with Fitness Trackers will promote wellness by encouraging participants to walk more often during the day. Participants may use supported activity tracking devices to record the number of daily steps taken and transmit this number into the ChallengeRunner.com system. The totals of those steps are then compared against one another and a real-time leaderboard is made available.

In order to receive data from tracking devices, each participant must first install the appropriate software and create an account on the activity tracker's website. Every participant must then authorize ChallengeRunner.com to capture individual data as follows:

After logging in, the participant must click the Profile link at the top of the home page and then click the Authorize link. On the tracker website shown the user must enter their ID and Password they created when they first registered the device.

Once the device is authorized, the user must ensure that they connect their device to the activity tracker's website at least once per day to sync data.

This challenge will run for the first quarter. This steps challenge has a bonus progressive option. Every participant who records a minimum of 150,000 steps (5000 daily) will receive 1 My Impact Incentive Credit for every 150,000 tracked this quarter. Upper limit is still 6 credits however you must beat your last months number of steps by 3% to get the whole 6 credits.

The Walking Challenge with Fitness Trackers has the following characteristics:

  • In the leaderboard, each participant is able to see where they stand in relation to other participants using real names.
  • Participants are allowed to enter up to 30,000 steps (roughly 15 miles) each day.
  • Devices should be synced every day; however, participants may take up to seven days after the log date to sync data. 
  • Although activity trackers are supported, they are not required. Particiants may enter their own data uning the ChallengeRunner website or ChallengeRunner smartphone apps.
  • Those with city phones have the health app that can also be used to track activity.