As many of you know, we’ve had a few of these challenges over the past couple of years to help you (if you need it!) to get physically active (and maybe a little bit competitive) during the grey and dark winter months, not to mention all the fun of the holiday season leaving everyone a little lacking in motivation.
If you needed any extra persuasion to get involved, remember that taking part in physical activity not only improves your physical health and wellbeing but also your mental health too through the release of chemicals to the brain. So, what better way to kick start your 2025 than taking part.
This year the EEG are taking the lead on organising and coordinating the challenge, so here’s the key information.
Week 1 Results
The All Important Teams
What’s involved?
In teams of six, the distance that you travel will help you build your very own building hall, which will be measured against Meyer Werft Dock 2 Hall – the third largest shipbuilding hall and the fifth-largest usable volume in the world as of 2022.
How will it work?
You can either create your own team (maximum of six members, no minimum) and nominate a captain or enter as an individual and we’ll add you to a team, the choice is yours.
As a team you will work together to travel as far as possible – you can run, walk (walking around your home, the shops, the office etc. counts too!), cycle, swim, the distance, doing whatever type of activity you like, it just needs to be an activity that you can measure the distance you have travelled and is done under your own steam – no motorised vehicles allowed!
As in previous challenges, we will apply a factor of three for any running, walking, climbing, rowing or swimming which means 1km of running = 3km contribution to the team’s distance. Just to be clear, there is no factor for cycling, 1km of cycling = 1km contribution.
Due to the overall volume required for this challenge, we will be applying a conversion factor to give us all a fighting chance of completing a decent size building hall.
When will the challenge take place?
We will run the challenge in three stages, each stage lasting four weeks with a week’s rest in between to help recharge everyone’s batteries and of course strategise for the next stage!
Each stage will consist of 3-week sprints with a 1 week break in-between. Break down as follows:
- Stage one – w/c 20 January
- Stage two – w/c 17 February
- Stage three – w/c 17 March
Measuring the distance you have travelled
If you use a fitness tracker (Apple Watch, Fitbit etc.) then you can easily identify the distance you have travelled in a given time period. Most mobile phones will do the same measurement for you, just remember to take your phone with you! Or you can keep it really simple and map your walking, cycling, running route on www.mapmyrun.com to get the distance you are travelling.
Tracking your distance
Each team captain will be responsible for collating their team’s distance on a weekly basis and submitting it to the Teams channel specifically created for this