the 10K a day challenge at work

COMMUTE 9.2 miles

Coming back on Monday to log this little gem of stupidity that happened on Friday. The 10K a day steps challenge started this past Monday. This year, instead of showing steps only the dashboard for the program is showing the points earned. 4-7K is 3 points, 7-10K is 4 points, and >10K is 5 points per day. So the leaderboard at just 5 days in, with all the fresh energy, is showing most everyone having all the points available -- so today everyone has 25 points. Boring.

And if you get 160 points by the end of the 8 weeks, a $25 gift card. Not much for all those steps. But not hard either.

But today LC shows up on the top 10 leaderboard. And I get hooked. Over the course of the morning, she moves up and down in the leaderboard. Huh? How is the system ranking people? I clickety-click looking to find individual step numbers.

And oooh I find them. Then I move into the next level of obsession. LC is ranked somewhere 3-5 in number of steps. I compare it to my numbers, and find I'm right there with her. Huh. But my name doesn't show, and I found I didn't select the box for participating in the individual challenge. And I've been debating on the best way to log my running. The garmin gives me a step number that I can subtract to get my daily steps separately, and when I compare the garmin run numbers to the program's "converted" steps I get different numbers. The program says like 260 spm, and the garmin more like 170 spm. Big diffie. Which is correct?

Believe it or not, I email the program to ask how to change my name to a nickname, so I can participate anonymously and try to win nothing more for doing more. And I ask how to count the numbers. They say "whatever I feel comfortable with", and I learn how to change my name.

So now, as of Monday after the Memorial Day weekend, Melli Fera is in first place. LOL.

But as the day went by I fell to 2nd place. Still LOLing.