I am in a 40k challenge, with others who walk at my level. Last week the winner of the challenge had 74,000 steps, close to twice as many as several people in the challenge. That was frustrating enough, but I see he is back again this week, already after one day having twice as many steps as the rest of us. It appears his normal step count is more than 10k a day. What is the point of dividing up the challenges into step counts if someone with twice as many steps are not moved to a challenge filled with people walking at their level? None of us in this group will ever be able to win this challenge if they don't move him. Does anyone pay any attention to these challenges?
I am in a 40k challenge, with others who walk at my level. Last week the winner of the challenge had 74,000 steps, close to twice as many as several people in the challenge. That was frustrating enough, but I see he is back again this week, already after one day having twice as many steps as the rest of us. It appears his normal step count is more than 10k a day. What is the point of dividing up the challenges into step counts if someone with twice as many steps are not moved to a challenge filled with people walking at their level? None of us in this group will ever be able to win this challenge if they don't move him. Does anyone pay any attention to these challenges?
I agree, It does not differentiate steps from running either, so it's not really a "steps" challenge if people are running. I know this cos I run:):o
It is monitored automatically I believe and moves you to a different challenge group according to the result of an algorithm. I won my last week 70k group with 88k - and it has left me in that group for this week. I assume that if I have similar number of steps this week it will move me up as I have been in different groups before
I haven't been the most consistent the past few months and what I've noticed is that it usually takes 2 weeks in a row where you exceed the step goal of the challenge or come in below it before it moves you. My guess is that it wants to avoid moving people around based on one really active week or one really inactive week since that may be an exception to someone's normal activity levels. I bet the person with 74,000 steps will be moved up next week, assuming they come in way above goal again.
I am in a 40k challenge, with others who walk at my level. Last week the winner of the challenge had 74,000 steps, close to twice as many as several people in the challenge. ?
Man! I was in the 50K last week and by a fluke went over (up to 80K) and this morning discovered that I was bumped up to the 75K challenge!! Not only that, but I got back from my morning run, which scored me 7700 steps, to find Connect recognized 7749 steps today but 5125 steps total! WTF!!
You'll be in challenges where someone may go far bast the challenge goal, but they will be moving up to new challenges quickly. This happens when someone first gets a device and has to move up to the challenge that's right for them. (they have no challenge history and start at a low one)
As far as the difference in steps, when you sync, your steps in the step widget usually update right away, but there could be a delay in updating your leader boards and challenge steps. Just check again in a few minutes. It happens at times, but corrects itselfand I don;t think I've see it take more than maybe 10 minutes. - I suspect that your data needs to go to multiple servers in the Garmin world for all the widgets to update or something like that.
Also, you can look at the status page if some things don't seem to be working, or working very slowly.
I'm one of those who have been jumping up lately. I've started significantly increasing my long runs. I also started wearing my FR 235 almost all the time now. (long reason that I didn't before, beyond the scope of this thread) Still, there will be weeks where my distance will be a lot shorter (doing a 5K race instead of a long run) and weeks where it'll be longer (trying to get some hikes in this summer). I'm not going out to get great distances for the weekly challenge. In fact I clicked on it by accident, then stayed because I figured I could use it to gauge how I am doing compared to others. After winning two weeks in a row, it bumped me up to a higher catagory. I lost the first week, but it looks like I won it this week. Guess I'll be getting bumped up again (although this coming week is likely to be a short distance week for me). But if it's a downer for people, I'd just as soon back out and just compare my weekly totals against myself. I'd compare against my brother, but he's on the Fitbit system, and I don't know of a way to automatically do those type of comparisons.
this week i have 3x more steps than 2nd place. i have asked the question to my current group if im am in the 85k challenge but no response. i frequently do 120k steps +. not the first time it felt like i have been in the wrong group.
however, there is defo a problem which can be seen on my account.
i have won the group several times, have one of those markers on connect express in the calender view showing i have won badges, and i do not have any badges. even for legitimate groups where the race was quite tough
Hi, so I have a question regarding step counts and challenges, there's a particular person who doesn't have any steps/syncs all day long then at the end of the day, like at 10pm ish, there's like 14,000+ steps. How is that possible?
Hi, so I have a question regarding step counts and challenges, there's a particular person who doesn't have any steps/syncs all day long then at the end of the day, like at 10pm ish, there's like 14,000+ steps. How is that possible?
did they go for a run? that amount of steps could be covered in about 30 - 60 mins depending on your distance covered. if the went with only a watch there would be no sycning during the run,
Some people might not sync during the day (maybe they only sync by hooking to a pc/mac for example), and also remember that 10pm your time is 8am someone else's time! So a burst of 14000 steps at 10pm your time can quite easily happen...
