Vitality Running World Cup - a note about Goals !

[linda9389]

There seems to have been a new feature added to this country based challenge - personal goals.

It's been added to try to keep up interest for people who's countries get knocked out as we go through the tournament!

The default goal for the first week is 5km, and the algorithm is for this to increase by 10% each week if you keep hitting the goal.

However, it is not necessary to run this goal distance. The only requirement is that each qualifying run must be a minimum of 3km in 30 minutes.

It's great if you join the challenge - but it's meant to be for fun, not so anyone should feels they have to run at a certain pace or for a certain distance. Please don't be pressured into anything just because of this tournament!

There are currently 91 members in the HU team, making us one of the biggest teams - it's still not too late to join - and we have a good selection of contributing runs recorded already. Well done everyone 👏👏👏

Go team HU!!!

[AlMorr Ambassador Graduate10]

Very latest at 7.45am Friday morning, now 98 on the Healthunlocked VRWC team

[Annieapple]

Will do my qualifier tomorrow hopefully

[linda9389 Graduate10 in reply to Annieapple]

We're at least due some better weather tomorrow, today was vile! Hope it's nice for your run 😀

[Annieapple in reply to linda9389]

Thanks Linda. Been superb weather here on the NE coast. Had coffee on the patio. Set to change again on the weekend though but will get my run in first 🤣

[linda9389 Graduate10 in reply to Annieapple]

Crikey! Very different here down South!

[Run46 Graduate10]

Hi Linda,

I've joined in my name: Kerry Wynne so should be in the HU group, but can't see my run yet.

I've put tracking via Garmin and changed my connection settings to everyone but no luck yet...does it sometimes take a while?

[linda9389 Graduate10 in reply to Run46]

When I was playing with it, runs from Garmin don't load retrospectively (only runs recorded after linking the tracker appeared) but runs from strava and mampmyrun did go back retrospectively. Do you already use either of those? if so, then you could link them as another tracker and it might just appear.

[Run46 Graduate10 in reply to linda9389]

No, afraid not, put my Garmin and Fitbit on but sounds like tonight's run may not count.

Oh well, hopefully Sunday's will show up no problem 👍

[linda9389 Graduate10 in reply to Run46]

Did you set up your account and link your garmin before or after today's run?

[Run46 Graduate10 in reply to linda9389]

About half hour after I got back from the run.

[linda9389 Graduate10 in reply to Run46]

OK. Then there's a good chance your next run will work. 🤞

[SueAppleRun Graduate10 60minGraduate]

What a good thing, we are not joining because i’m finding running difficult to fit in because there are people off sick at work and my hours are crazy but am cheering you all and watching with interest

[dbeuro]

I did qualifying 3k last night and it registered from my device. The progress on the red circle is about 40%. Does this mean that once I do another run and get past a cumulative 5k that the circle will show my goal complete.? What do I need to do next?

[linda9389 Graduate10 in reply to dbeuro]

Yes I think so. I think it might have to be a run of 3k or more again to count although its not 100% clear to me whether it's just got to be the first run that meets that criteria, or every run.

[dbeuro in reply to linda9389]

I just received an email from Vitality with the Goody Bag of discounts. The email said my run has been logged and I am now officially representing UK. I can now do more runs to see if I can enter a better time. So the system is working. I am using MapMyWalk app as my recording device and it was very easy to set up. Hope this helps.

[linda9389 Graduate10 in reply to dbeuro]

Fabulous!

[Time_Lord]

Linda

How can you check on our team progress and to see if your run has loaded?

[linda9389 Graduate10 in reply to Time_Lord]

You need to be on the website rather than on the app. Log in, select teams from the menu on the left hand side or click this link app.runningworldcup.com/teams Then you click on our team and all members are listed, together with the distance run so far.

[Achy4days Graduate10]

I've linked my Strava to the app on both phone and web versions but my run still would not track. When I tried to contact Vitality to get them to manually input my run, it turns out my run yesterday morning doesn't count 😩

[linda9389 Graduate10 in reply to Achy4days]

Oh no! Why was that? Was it below the 3k, 30 min criteria or something else?

[Achy4days Graduate10 in reply to linda9389]

Ok, I think I might be misreading the form. Where it says 12am, I understood it as noon. I will send them a screenshot and see if they can manually input my run :/

[linda9389 Graduate10 in reply to Achy4days]

This is the reply they sent me when I queried the problem - presumably this is what you were looking at: 'We are sorry you have having issues with getting your run into our system but please do allow 24 hours for it to appear before worrying. If it has not appeared after 24 hours, we have a document that hopefully can help, and also a manual process if you are really stuck to ensure that your run will be on your account, please visit runningworldcup.com/runs-no... for full details. Many thanks'

[Achy4days Graduate10 in reply to linda9389]

I have followed that guide to the T but it still doesn't show any of my runs. I have also completely deleted my account and re-registered but still no luck

[linda9389 Graduate10 in reply to Achy4days]

And have you've checked your strava privacy settings are set to 'everyone' for activities?

I think anyone with problems should bombard them with the manual form and eventually maybe they will get the message and fix whatever the problem is!

I did my first run today, with just Garmin registered as my tracker. It has picked up the run in 'my runs' and in the team list, but my 'goal progress' still shows as zero! I've re-authorised strava, and it is showing nothing (last week it was looking retrospectively, but of course they may have changed that so I won't know if strava is really not working until I've done another run!).

[Achy4days Graduate10 in reply to linda9389]

Yeah all my runs are set for ‘everyone’ on Strava and as runs rather than races or commute. Still no luck. Definitely gonna bombard them with manual form and see what sticks 😅 Thanks for all your help x

[linda9389 Graduate10 in reply to Achy4days]

Would you consider connecting mapmyrun for this as well as strava? I'm finding mapmyrun to be much more reliable.

I do it automatically from Garmin, but I don't think it's possible to do it automatically from strava. However, you can definitely do it manually, on a run by run basis by exporting a GPX file from strava and then importing that into mapmyrun (you could try it with the missing run).

Will let you know if my strava runs ever appear! Good luck whatever you decide to do 😍.

[linda9389 Graduate10 in reply to Achy4days]

Very latest response from vrwc: Due to the huge number of entrants and runs taking place, we are experiencing some issues in the speed of runs being uploaded, particularly on Strava. Please do wait a full 24 hours before worrying. If they have not appeared after 24 hours we have a manual upload form available at runningworldcup.com/runs-no... which takes less than 1 minute to submit. Thank you for taking part and for your patience! 🙄🙄🙄

[Achy4days Graduate10 in reply to linda9389]

I am happy to report that my runs have finally tracked! It seems to finally work with the Vitality app importing the data from Apple Health, which in turn got the data from Strava. Sometimes when I refresh the app/website, it logs my runs twice, sometimes nothing shows at all! It doesn't look like the app is very stable but fingers crossed, we shall make it into the Round of 16 in a week's time!

Thank you again for all your help <3

[linda9389 Graduate10 in reply to Achy4days]

Aha! I'm with you - if we qualify this round, at least they have til the weekend to get it sorted! Grrr

[Achy4days Graduate10 in reply to linda9389]

Well, spending so much time and effort fiddling with the app and website, made me feel like I've invested too heavily in this now. I'll be UPSET if we don't make it! 🤣🤣🤣

[Tartancat Graduate10]

First run logged! And there are now 105 members in our team

[linda9389 Graduate10 in reply to Tartancat]

Fabulous! Go team HU!!!

[Papillon17 Graduate10]

Done my qualifier tonight got 3.5 miles in was hard going after Sunday’s half marathon but hopefully every little helps.

[linda9389 Graduate10 in reply to Papillon17]

Well done for getting back out there and managing that distance. Hopefully you can see your run picked up in the team list in vrwc

[Papillon17 Graduate10 in reply to linda9389]

It certainly shows on the team runs could see it on my runs in the section of the running World Cup although it doesn’t show on front page of the app.

[linda9389 Graduate10 in reply to Papillon17]

The app does seem to lag behind. If it's in the team runs then it's definitely been picked up!