You guys up for another Nike+ challenge?

[ERCougar]

what about a Monthly Mileage challenge? we could do it individually or divide it up utah vs non-utah residents or utes vs. cougars?

I like this. Really, we could leave this open, right? If someone has an idea for a challenge, start a thread and set out the rules. Then people post to it. Seems easy. It might annoy the non-runners though--maybe we can get a category for it?

Alternatively, I guess we could just post each of our runs to a common thread and people can intermittently interject challenge posts with totals and stuff.

Those of us who have to run hills at 6000 ft everywhere we go aren't crazy about pace challenges. Oh yeah, and I'm slow anyway.

Maybe for the next couple of weeks, everyone practice posting their workouts to find a good format we like and to get a sense of what everyone's running to handicap things. I know that garminconnect has had issues with elevation stuff, but maybe that doesn't matter (although climb challenges might be kind of fun).

Someone else has to tackle this though, because I have no idea of how the Nike system worked.

[SteelBlue]

I like this. Really, we could leave this open, right? If someone has an idea for a challenge, start a thread and set out the rules. Then people post to it. Seems easy. It might annoy the non-runners though--maybe we can get a category for it?

Alternatively, I guess we could just post each of our runs to a common thread and people can intermittently interject challenge posts with totals and stuff.

Those of us who have to run hills at 6000 ft everywhere we go aren't crazy about pace challenges. Oh yeah, and I'm slow anyway.

Maybe for the next couple of weeks, everyone practice posting their workouts to find a good format we like and to get a sense of what everyone's running to handicap things. I know that garminconnect has had issues with elevation stuff, but maybe that doesn't matter (although climb challenges might be kind of fun).

Someone else has to tackle this though, because I have no idea of how the Nike system worked.

TDB did this a while back. I think it was a lot of work for him and lots of people would report mileage late etc... But his site was pretty cool and would be fun if he's willing to set it up again.

[ERCougar]

TDB did this a while back. I think it was a lot of work for him and lots of people would report mileage late etc... But his site was pretty cool and would be fun if he's willing to set it up again.

I'd love to see his website, but it seems like it would be easier to leave it on here. As for late reports and adding mileage and stuff, we could just make it so the person who originates the challenge thread in charge of the calculations. Or we could all just chip in and help as we go, like just add yours to the total when you post it?

Where is that dirtbag anyway?

[Teenage Dirtbag]

TDB did this a while back. I think it was a lot of work for him and lots of people would report mileage late etc... But his site was pretty cool and would be fun if he's willing to set it up again.

That was pretty fun, though a pain in the butt at times due to whiny people.

For those that weren't around, I put together a challenge where we had 10 teams of people from Cougarboard, and each week they would go head to head against another team to see which would rack up the most miles. I kept a win-loss record and it actually turned out pretty fun. The winner was the team with the best win-loss record, but I don't remember who actually won. It may have been Sea Chicken's team.

I scoured my computers and was surprised to see I still had the basic sites saved at work, so I threw them back up on my web host.

This was the main page:
http://challenge.shaneb.net/
You can check out the other pages of the site from there.

I also put together a web page for each team that only the individual team members knew the address to, and each team's was different. This is what those looked like:
http://challenge.shaneb.net/sample/index.html

This was the page to report your miles:
http://challenge.shaneb.net/report.html

Before that one, we had done a one month challenge just to see how far we could collectively run. This was the result of that:
http://challenge.shaneb.net/indexold.html

I don't know if we have enough runners around here to do something like this again, but I wouldn't be opposed to handling it. It just got annoying near the end when a certain person who shall remain nameless (but whose initials are "VV") threw a tantrum and quit because it was obvious his team couldn't win. It was very dumb.

But it was a fun thing, all in all. And I got a few emails from people who had never really exercised before saying that it got them off the couch, so that was nice.

[ewth8tr]

It just got annoying near the end when a certain person who shall remain nameless (but whose initials are "VV") threw a tantrum and quit because it was obvious his team couldn't win. It was very dumb.

Ugh, I was on that idiots team.

[ERCougar]

I've been looking around the web and there are a TON of people who want nike style challenges with ability to upload from a garmin. I think dailymile.com is really close on this one. I bet they have it done within the month.

It sounds like the Garmin people are terrible at helping apps use their data. Have they learned nothing from iphone??

[Teenage Dirtbag]

I've been looking around the web and there are a TON of people who want nike style challenges with ability to upload from a garmin. I think dailymile.com is really close on this one. I bet they have it done within the month.

It sounds like the Garmin people are terrible at helping apps use their data. Have they learned nothing from iphone??

I don't see how a Garmin based challenge could possibly work. You could put the thing on the seat of your car while you drive and no one would know the difference. (Granted, if you're so desperate to win an internet challenge that you go drive a few miles a day at 10 mph so it looks realistic, you are a loser, but still...)

[ERCougar]

I don't see how a Garmin based challenge could possibly work. You could put the thing on the seat of your car while you drive and no one would know the difference. (Granted, if you're so desperate to win an internet challenge that you go drive a few miles a day at 10 mph so it looks realistic, you are a loser, but still...)

I thought about that, but you could mandate including your heart rate data. Then you'd have to be doing some sort of vigorous activity while driving.