Vitality Running World Cup - runs have to be at least 3k to count!

[linda9389]

Just to say we now have 99 members in the HU team - if you want to join, it's not too late!

I just want to clariify something GoGo_JoJo and I spotted this morning.

It seems it isn't just your first run which needs to be at least 3k in 30 minutes for this tournament.

We are pretty sure that only runs of at least 3k (where the 3k part takes 30 minutes or less) will count towards your country total. On your goal page it says:

Only qualifying runs (at least 3 km in 30 min or less) will count towards your country’s total kilometres and your weekly personalised Vitality Running World Cup goal.

So, it's not just your initial 'qualifying' run that has to meet that criteria as we had first understood it.

If you're having any problems recording runs, let us know in the comments below and I'll see if I can find a way around it.

At time of posting, there are 99 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!!!

[linda9389 Administrator Marathon]

Having said that, runs of less than 3k are still showing up in the team list!

[C3PO Marathon]

I'm in, but I'm running for a Norwegian team. I can't see that countries are being ranked yet. Is that right? It would be helpful if we could how we're doing.

[linda9389 Administrator Marathon in reply to C3PO]

Disappointing isn't it. I'm wondering if it won't update the country table until the end of the qualifying period now. You can still join the HU team - if you haven't already - and keep your country allegiance 😍

[C3PO Marathon in reply to linda9389]

Can you join two teams? I've joined the team for the magazine that publishes my column.

[linda9389 Administrator Marathon in reply to C3PO]

I'm not sure, sorry!

[linda9389 Administrator Marathon in reply to C3PO]

Sparkey5000 says yes, you can join more than one team. Try this link if you want to join team HU as well: app.runningworldcup.com/tea...

[GoGo_JoJo Ultramarathon in reply to linda9389]

No, in the live leaderboard uk is 3rd...

runningworldcup.com/leaderb...

[linda9389 Administrator Marathon in reply to GoGo_JoJo]

Ahh, I hadn't seen that before!

[linda9389 Administrator Marathon in reply to GoGo_JoJo]

They've now ranked them in the tournament section as well!

[Oldfloss Administrator]

Thanks you!

[Granspeed]

These info posts are really helpful. Thanks linda9389. 👏🏼👍

[linda9389 Administrator Marathon in reply to Granspeed]

That's good - I feel a bit like I'm flooding the system

[Granspeed in reply to linda9389]

Not for me. Keep ‘em coming. 😄

[Sadie-runs Half Marathon]

How does one join the HU club? I signed up for the event, but no idea if I am affiliated to a club! x

[Sadie-runs Half Marathon in reply to Sadie-runs]

Strike that! I saw your earlier post and figured it out! 😁😁😁

[linda9389 Administrator Marathon in reply to Sadie-runs]

And I see you in the team! Make sure your privacy settings are set to everyone/connections if you are using strava/garmin as your linked tracker.

[Sadie-runs Half Marathon in reply to linda9389]

Done. But I must admit, putting my settings to “everyone” unnerves me a little - it means anyone can see where you run and what time of day? 😱 Anyone rose worry about this?

[GoGo_JoJo Ultramarathon in reply to Sadie-runs]

Kinda but I have a privacy zone set so no part of my runs is shown for an 1/8th of a mile around my house plus I usually start my watch a few starts away anyway after my walk so it's just my general neighbourhood.

I figure that there's so many people out there why would I stand out...

[Sadie-runs Half Marathon in reply to GoGo_JoJo]

I have set the privacy zone too, and like you, don't start my Garmin until I am a fair distance from home (warm up walk!), but still, still a bit paranoid!

[linda9389 Administrator Marathon in reply to GoGo_JoJo]

I'm the same. I opened mine up a while ago as it was the only way to use flybys

[GoGo_JoJo Ultramarathon in reply to linda9389]

I don't use flybys though... not sure I understand that bit 🤣🙈

[linda9389 Administrator Marathon in reply to GoGo_JoJo]

I used it the other day to see who it was who ran by me - turned out it was someone I knew who has aged a lot! Hope I haven't aged that badly!

[GoGo_JoJo Ultramarathon]

I can't see a table of teams... someone mentioned we're leading but I can't see where...

[linda9389 Administrator Marathon in reply to GoGo_JoJo]

Me either! When I read that comment I wondered if they meant they were leading the team because their runs had doubled up, rather than HU were leading the teams.

[Hidden]

Hi Linda I don’t know what I’m doing wrong. I went to privacy and connections on my Garmin. As I’m not on Facebook I had to open up a google account to connect ? I don’t think this is right somehow? I also went to privacy policy .... but that seemed to confuse me even more.

Anyway just wondered if you could explain it to me one more time? Ugh! I’m so twitty!🤯🤯

Many thanksx

[linda9389 Administrator Marathon in reply to Hidden]

I'll try!

1. sign in to your garmin connect account connect.garmin.com/signin/

2. top right hand corner there is yur garmin icon - click on this 'profile and account' button and then select 'account settings' from the drop down list

3. Select 'privacy settings' from the list on the left hand side

4. Check the setting for 'activity' on this screen; I have mine set to 'connections', but I think it can be anything EXCEPT 'only me' (because 'only me' means nothing can look atyour activities even if you have allowed them access to your garmin account).

Try this. Then let me know how you get on.

Good luck, and well done for persevering.

[Hidden in reply to linda9389]

Thanks very much Linda ....will do!🤗x

[Chris141 Half Marathon]

Looks like I’m a non-runner. App not picking up my runs on Apple Health! Not compatable with Run Keeper!

[linda9389 Administrator Marathon in reply to Chris141]

Ahh, that's not good! Runkeeper is definitely not in there (although I did send it as a suggestion a couple of weeks ago - you could do the same). I'm afraid I don't know anything Apple, shockingly ignorant in that quarter! The only things I can suggest is that you double check your privacy settings are open enough in Apple Health. If that looks OK, maybe do a separate post on here to see if anyone else is using that tracker. Finally, complete their problem form for recording untracked runs (they do suggest waiting 24 hours) - there's a link in the pinned post I just put up - the more forms they have to process, the more likely they are to prioritise fixing their bugs!!!

[Chris141 Half Marathon in reply to linda9389]

Yes I also suggested Run Keeper! Will try your other suggestions though. Thnks Linda!

[linda9389 Administrator Marathon in reply to Chris141]

Would you consider linking Apple Health to say mapmyrun as well just for this challenge? That seems to work better with vrwc than strava at the moment!

[Chris141 Half Marathon in reply to linda9389]

Do I download mapmyrun ?

[linda9389 Administrator Marathon in reply to Chris141]

Mapmyrun is very like runkeeper I think. You could use both, even if just for the duration of this tournament, so you get to keep all your data in runkeeper as well.

You could probably set the whole thing up on the web without ever downloading the app to your phone. Go into mapmyrun, sign up then link your apple health account.

Alternatively you could download the mampmyrun app to your phone and either start it everytime you run, or link your apple health account so it gets sent to mammyrun automatically . There are some instructions here: support.mapmyfitness.com/hc...

[Chris141 Half Marathon in reply to linda9389]

It worked Linda. Submitted my Saturday Run manually to them and that was updated. Just finished a 7 mile run this morning and it’s auto updated already! Thnks for your help and advice! X

[linda9389 Administrator Marathon in reply to Chris141]

Really pleased. Glad you didn't just give up, which must've been very tempting 😍