Marathon Kids

As your season continues, it's fun to create friendly challenges to keep the excitement and motivation high for your participants.

Creating time-bound challenges using the date range on reports gives your club and participants multiple opportunities to be celebrated and be on the leaderboard! 

Using the date range to create challenges can be done anytime during your season. Doing so doesn't affect your overall data; accumulative data is always there. 

<b>Time-bound challenges give you the option to celebrate: </b>

- Top Grade
- Top Class
- Top Runners of the Challenge
- Top Runners of the Grade and/or Class
- Fastest Timed Lap or Mile
- Total Miles Conquered by the Club
   

<b>How to create a time-bound challenge? </b>

1. For example, use grading periods, Heart Health month, holiday to holiday, etc. 
    

Give participants an opportunity to run and walk laps during the challenge. 

1. Be sure it's an equal number of opportunities and the same length of time for the sessions. 
    

Provide updates on progress using the data during the challenge so everyone stays up to date. 

1. Pull a report anytime using the start date of the challenge and the current date on the reports. 
    

At the end of the challenge pull a report using the date range on reports to get to the results! 

1. Start Date - the first day of the challenge
2. End Date - the last day of the challenge
    


1. Define the dates of the challenge. 
   1. For example, use grading periods, Heart Health month, holiday to holiday, etc. 
       
2. Give participants an opportunity to run and walk laps during the challenge. 
   1. Be sure it's an equal number of opportunities and the same length of time for the sessions. 
       
3. Provide updates on progress using the data during the challenge so everyone stays up to date. 
   1. Pull a report anytime using the start date of the challenge and the current date on the reports. 
       
4. At the end of the challenge pull a report using the date range on reports to get to the results! 
   1. Start Date - the first day of the challenge
   2. End Date - the last day of the challenge
       


Which reports work for time-bound challenges?  

Keep the excitement and motivation high with fun, friendly challenges throughout your season.

Runner Mileage Report Individual lap and mileage totals. Class Total Miles
Grade Leaderboard Report Total Miles for each Grade Total Miles for the Club Total Miles for each Class
Leaderboard Report Participants in order by mileage. View all or the top 10, 25, or 50 runners of your challenge; by class, grade, gender, or overall.
Timed-Run Report Lap and mile times for participants Pull several reports to compare times Review for the fastest time for the day of the challenge.
Season Report (Excel) Total laps and miles for participants are dependent upon the date range and track/activities selected. Total Miles for the Month for each participant