What: 5km | 10km | 1/2 Marathon Solo Route Challenge
When: 20th and 21st Feb 2021 9am
Where: Anywhere you like!
Cost: Free
How: Not quite your normal virtual race as this will require more brains than brawn!
The more creative and imaginative you can be with your chosen course the more chance you have at winning!
James @traction and Paul @ Trail Monkey Running – Jersey
will be the judges.
Remember, your finishing time is irrelevant. 
Race start 9am (Saturday or Sunday 20th/21st February – you choose what day suits)
5k, 10k and Half Marathon categories.
How It Works
How Does this work?
Firstly go to Strava and find the Trail Monkey Strava Club -Join the club
-Decide on the challenge you would like to do – 5km, 10km or 1/2 Marathon or Marathon (or all four!!)
-Pick a course that you like anywhere in Jersey, UK or the world that is equal to the distance you have selected.
-Record the run you do either with a GPS watch or the Strava app
-Once complete save the run as a race in Strava
-Ensure the race is set to public
****Very important bit below:****
-Download this app and after the challenge record the run detail in the app (Your Name, Date, Distance and the link to the Strava Activity of your run), this ensures that we can see the run details and will validate your entry to the challenge.
Notes about this Challenge
The Challenge
The idea of this is to promote a bit of motivation and to provide a bit of a challenge to people during this period of social distancing. The most creative routes will be decided by James Manners and Paul Burrows and then put to the public to vote the winners for each category. There will be a prize of a coveted Trail Monkey buff to each Male and Female winner of each category so its high stakes people!! We will announce the winners 3-5 days after each months has ended and we have had time to collate the results.
A few rules and requirements:
-Make sure your run activity is tagged as a race.
– Manual entries will not count towards your entry.
-Please ensure your activity visibility control is set to “Everyone”.
-You can learn more about managing your activity’s privacy controls here.
–In the run title on Strava please input the title Traction Monkey Challenge – 5km or 10km, 1/2 Marathon or Marathon somewhere in the title – this will enable us to know this is your challenge run. (If you don’t do this the run won’t count in the challenge sorry, lots of people are doing this challenge and it will take a bit of admin so your help in this is really important)
-Following the close of the race window, you will have three days to upload your results.
-You can enter one race on the Saturday and one on the Sunday at different distances if you fancy it.
-Once the race weekend is finished we will look at the race entries, decide on tour favourites and then put them up for public vote the following week.
-Ultimately this is a bit of fun to keep people motivated and out there running if we are able. Post photos on our Facebook group afterwards here to let people know how you’re getting on!!
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1007593536048714/?source_id=256328488232606
Helpful tips
-New to Strava? Check out our Getting Started Guides for mobile and web.
-Already have a dedicated GPS device? Find out how to upload to Strava from yours.
-Set up your device for success:
-Having trouble uploading? Here are some helpful tips to help troubleshoot for iOS and Android.