Weekly Challenge kind of useless....

I use the weekly challenge as a motivator to get out and get more steps in. I am in the 40k challenge, which is appropriate for my distances. For two weeks before this last one, some guy was walking 75k a week and winning (gee, good for him). He cycled out, and this past week I was beaten by one person with 86k steps, and one person with 67k steps. It seems that they throw all newbies into the 40k and let it all sort itself out, but what about those of us who take that challenge (relatively) seriously? It is not possible to win with people walking more than twice that distance competing every single week.

Looking into the Fitbit tracking, I've had enough of a motivational fail for 3 weeks now, might be time to leave Garmin. So discouraged. :(

I know Garmin has a lot of problems: Bad customer service, website designed by the guy doing work experience, an auto-reply to all messages submitted to the web support form, customer call centre staffed by the same guy doing work experience, no idea what their users want, no idea what their own devices do, frequent outages, forum mods that think their users are a bunch of whiners for complaining that they can't use the service when it goes down for hours at a time to name just a few.

Having said that, do you think that someone using their service that walks further than you is a systematic failure on Garmin's part? Who cares what some guy you never met does :P What if there's some guy on fitbit that sits around shaking his device to make it look like he runs a marathon every 2 hrs?

Is there a reason you can't make your own goals? (I know, the interface was designed by the work experience guy so you'll have to make a separate goal for _every_ _single_ _week_ you want a goal. Also you'll have to manually switch the goal over when the week ends BECAUSE GC MODERN and why would you want it to automatically show your current goal anyway, are you crazy?) But apart from that, is there a reason you can't use your own goals?