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Vitality Running World Cup – just 7 days to go, are you ready for March 5th? πŸ†

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I should just say, I don't have any inside information and have nothing to do with Vitality, these are points we discovered and discussed in comments on earlier posts and I thought they may prove helpful πŸ‘

If you haven’t signed up yet, but would like to represent your country for free, there is still time!

For anyone who has signed up already, it is worth checking now that everything is set up correctly (the last two β€˜checking’ points below) – depending on your privacy settings, you may find none of your runs are going to be counted!

β˜… Signing up

You can find out more and register here runningworldcup.com/?ref=o4...

You can choose to register with your full real name, or you can use your forum name (or a variant of it, so long as you enter something into both First and Last name). The VRWC support team have confirmed that forum names are OK, despite what it says on the registration screen!

β˜… Joining the HU team

Once you have registered you can join the HU team which Sparkey5000 has kindly set up. You can join the HU team by following this link app.runningworldcup.com/tea...

You will be added to the team with whatever name you registered with 😊

For anyone who has already signed up but would like to change their name to reflect their HU name, you can do so by editing your profile via this link app.runningworldcup.com/pro...

β˜… Do check you really have joined the HU team!

I suggest you double check that your name appears on the HU team member list (a few people have had problems and had to try more than once). To check, either use this link app.runningworldcup.com/teams or click on β€˜Teams’ on the left hand side of the website when you are signed into your account. HU should show, and if you click on members you should be able to see your name listed.

β˜… Do check your runs are being picked up!

The final point I wanted to make is about the run trackers. Although runs don’t β€˜count’ towards the challenge until 5th March, if you have successfully linked your tracker you should already be able to see your runs when you use this link app.runningworldcup.com/runs or click on β€˜My runs’ on the left hand side of the website. Lots of people have had problems with their runs not showing, even though they believed they had successfully linked their tracker (strava, garmin, fitbit, etc.).

Firstly, you should see each of the trackers you have linked. If this isn’t as you expect, then something has gone wrong – most likely the sign in details you input when trying to link the tracker (note, this has nothing to do with the details you used to register, it is based on the sign in details you supply when you try to link the tracker).

Secondly, if you click on the tracker(s) listed, you should be able to see all runs registered by that tracker since you linked that tracker (and even further back in the case of Strava). If you can’t, then for some reason the VRWC system has not got access to your activities, despite having successfully signed into your tracker account. So far, all the instances we have looked at have arisen because of tight privacy options in the tracker. In my case, Strava was fine because I have pretty loose security, but nothing was being picked up from my Garmin; however, once I changed my Garmin privacy options my subsequent runs started to show (note, it doesn’t apply retrospectively which is why it is important to sort this before the qualifying period begins on 5th March).

Happy Running Everyone - Go Team HU!!'

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Buddy34 profile image
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Thanks for that linda, I'm good to go πŸ˜ŠπŸ‘

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linda9389Graduate10β€’ in reply toBuddy34

That's great πŸ‘

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AliHCGraduate10

I'm in and being tracked 😊

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linda9389Graduate10β€’ in reply toAliHC

Excellent!

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Sparkey500060minGraduate

We are getting to be quite a big team! They seemed to have changed the website and you can now see all teams taking part. Getting excited 😊

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AlissumGraduate10

I’ve just changed my run tracker from Garmin to Strava. Garmin wasn’t showing all my runs. Strava has tracked all my runs so I’m ready to go πŸƒπŸΌβ€β™€οΈπŸ‘

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linda9389Graduate10β€’ in reply toAlissum

Brilliant!

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FitwannabeGraduate10

All checked and ready to go. Go Team HU! πŸƒπŸƒβ€β™€οΈπŸƒπŸƒβ€β™€οΈπŸƒπŸƒβ€β™€οΈπŸƒπŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§

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linda9389Graduate10β€’ in reply toFitwannabe

Yay!

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GranspeedGraduate10

Nope, it doesn’t want to pick up my Strava run even tho’ it is saying β€œWe have checked with Strava”. πŸ€” I changed privacy from β€œfollowers” to β€œeveryone” but.... Any tips?

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linda9389Graduate10β€’ in reply toGranspeed

My run this morning was picked up by garmin but not by strava! I tried unlinking strava and relinking it, but got thenoops 500 error again! I'm wondering if there's currently a general issue with the link to strava? There is also an interim check you can make to see if strava thinks Vitality has linked to it - I'll see if I can find those instructions. It really does need to be more reliable and straightforward though if this is going to work πŸ™„

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GranspeedGraduate10β€’ in reply tolinda9389

Thanks so much! I’m reluctant to use Garmin as there’s too much data there😨 so would be glad to use Strava. Any idea if Mapmyrun works better?

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linda9389Graduate10β€’ in reply toGranspeed

I just successfully connected to mapmyrun, but am still getting oops 500 for strava (even though it was connected OK until I disconnected it, so it's not me, it's something to do with their link). I think I will link as many trackers as possible, and maybe link Garmin to map myrun as well as strava (if you can)!

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linda9389Graduate10β€’ in reply toGranspeed

Was the run before you changed your privacy settings? In the same privacy controls section of strava, page down and there is an option to 'edit past activities'; maybe the change you have made hasn't affected existing activities, only future ones?

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GranspeedGraduate10β€’ in reply tolinda9389

Thanks. Will let you know....

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GranspeedGraduate10β€’ in reply tolinda9389

Cracked it at last, thanks. Left it overnight & it’s now picked up yesterday’s run plus some random ones from last June. πŸ€”πŸ€£

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linda9389Graduate10β€’ in reply toGranspeed

Brilliant. I still can't relink to strava, but will keep trying!

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GranspeedGraduate10β€’ in reply tolinda9389

I turned everything off & left it, then when I turned back on I refreshed all the pages and suddenly there was no problem. πŸ€” Who can know? But I think my original problem was, as you suggested, tight privacy settings so I abandoned those within Strava.

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linda9389Graduate10β€’ in reply toGranspeed

Right. I have Mapmyrun and Garmin linked OK, but will keep trying to add Strava too!

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linda9389Graduate10β€’ in reply toGranspeed

Well, I just went into the app to try again but it was already showing strava as linked. And yesterday's 5k shows up three times, once from each tracker. So go figure! Their system and links seem to be flaky at best! But at least I'm sorted for now 😍

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