Walk a Marathon in 30 Days

The goal of this Challenge is to travel a total of 26.20 mi..

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Goal Trophy

- This is the trophy that will be awarded for conquering this challenge.

A marathon sounds like a really long way, but spread out over 30 days, members participating in the MapMyRun.com Walk 26.2 Miles in 30 Days Challenge need to walk less than a mile per day to meet the goal!  The average American walks 1.5 miles per day, but for members just starting to exercise, a daily stroll of 0.87 miles – which will amount to a 26.2-mile marathon in 30 days – can put them on the path towards great health.

This flexible goal allows MapMyRun.com members to compete against other participants by walking 26.2 miles in any 30-day period. The 30 days must be consecutive, but members need not walk every day.  Members can measure their success against other members. MapMyRun.com provides participating members with the site’s tools, including walk mapping with elevation and distance, street and topographical map viewing, and workout logging.

MapMyRun.com suggests that walking 0.87 miles per day may be the most effective way to meet this particular goal.  For members that want a schedule, however, MapMyRun.com proposes the following simple schedule for success at walking 26.2 miles in 30 days:

Valid Workout Types These are the workout types that will count towards this goal / challenge. Please Note: Your custom workout types do not apply towards this challenge's goal. • Gym / Health Club > Cardio - Elliptical • Gym / Health Club > Cardio - Nordic Track • Gym / Health Club > Cardio - Treadmill • Hike > Cross Country • Hike > General • Hike > Hills - Heavy Pack • Hike > Hills - Light / No Pack • Hike > Hills - Medium Pack • Hike > Rock / Mountain Climbing • Walk > Brisk Walk • Walk > Commute • Walk > Easy Walk • Walk > Hill Workout • Walk > Interval Walk • Walk > Long Walk • Walk > Power Walk • Walk > Quick Walk • Walk > Race • Walk > Regular Walk • Walk > Stairs

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Comments (27)

Phillips12345678 wrote on 10/20/2009:
My walks are not being updated in the goal progress bar, can anyone help?
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revenant wrote on 09/07/2009:
Can someone tell me how the group goals works? each of my members has completed a run and added it to their training log but this goal shows no progress as a group. individually it shows up, can any one explain this?
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shrek32 wrote on 06/18/2009:
I know when I save my walk from the phone it has a bunch of random characters before the date when I see it online. Once I delete the random characters and just leave the date and save the walk it shows up in my running total for my goals. Otherwise it wouldn't count that walk in my total for my goal
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Dmcdadeuk wrote on 05/22/2009:
My walks are being added to the goals, but I can only view my progress on the website and not from my iphone. Any ideas? Also, i constantly get an error message when trying to save my work outs and they only save when I go to "trainging" then back to start workout..
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actor212 wrote on 04/28/2009:
2) I walked precisely the same route every day, sometimes twice in a day. I got measurements from 1.68 miles to 2.75 miles. I think part of this was due to receiving text messages and the occasional phone call, so perhaps the software could be tweaked to allow for that on a walking workout. Maybe the signal could pulse, so that if it was blocked by another app, it could infer the route based on the previous readings when the signal was clear again.
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actor212 wrote on 04/28/2009:
I had no major problems with this challenge, but would like to point out a couple of enhancements that could be useful.

1) The GPS signal was consistently registering "weak" when I set my iPhone software. I live in NYC. I can imagine that might present a challenge, except I live in a part of NYC where the buildings are pretty small, maybe three or four stories tall (with some exceptions).

2) I walked precisely the same route every day, sometimes twice in a day. I got measurements
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brad@mmf wrote on 02/19/2009:
I'm not sure if this is part of the issue or not, but I'll put it out there anyways as an FYI - the goal progress doesn't update in real-time (IE: if you enter a workout, you won't immediately see your goal progress updated). We update every user's goal progress on a nightly basis, so you should always see the progress updated the next day.
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RicardL wrote on 02/16/2009:
I am also having an issue with the walks being properly recorded. I use the iphone app and save them as walks. They are correctly set up in my traning log as walks. However, they are not deducting from the challenge correctly. Any thoughts?
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tsquared1977 wrote on 02/05/2009:
Brad and Liz, unfortunatley i am seeing the same issue. i logged my first walk and it is not updating my profile. it is also not updating for my girlfriend as well. It is entered as a walk.
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LizCarnell wrote on 02/04/2009:
Thanks Brad, however, I've checked my log of routes and it says that each walk has been uploaded as a walk, not a run, so unfortunately I'm no wiser. Is there something in my profile I need to change? It stopped adding my walks to the total about two weeks ago.
Cheers
Liz
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BlueAndGold57 wrote on 01/30/2009:
What a great idea! In the past, I've hibernated during the Winter, waiting for the weather to warm up, so I could get back on the bike and put the miles in. This gave me the motivation and insight to keep moving during the Winter. It took about 15 to 20 walks spread out through the month to get it done, but I finished my Marathon yesterday, and I am so psyched!!!
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brad@mmf wrote on 01/20/2009:
Thanks for your input regarding this goal, we definitely appreciate all the feedback we can get. As for your specific situation, the reason that some of your workouts aren't being counted towards the goal is because the goal is to "WALK a Marathon in 30 Days" ;) (keyword here being walk) - so anytime you enter a workout as a "run", it won't be counted towards this goal. Visit the Create Goal Page to start your own goal and choose the workout types.
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LizCarnell wrote on 01/19/2009:
Unfortunately sometimes my walks are added to my challenge but mostly they are not. I contacted Map My Fitness to ask why this was but got no response. They upload fine and the routes are on the website. Very disappointing to find that several walks later I have still only completed 39% of the challenge when it actually must be more like 55%. Anyone have an idea of how to fix this?
Thanks
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taconnell wrote on 01/10/2009:
I'm going to begin training for the Avon Breast Cancer 2-day in May. The walk is a marathon and a half, so I thought I'd do an 18 week training program...walking 4 days, building up to long walks on weekends. My problem is that I live in MA...snow and I have to use a jogging stroller as my toddler will be tagging along most of the time!!! Thought I'd trade in my elliptical for a treadmill to begin training during the winter months, but my husband says the ellptical will work just as well i
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rberube54 wrote on 01/08/2009:
I guess I was right. MMF finally acknowledged to add at least 3 of the Gym / Health Club exercises that I have been using without them counting towards my goal. Now after working out on the elliptical it did finally count towards my new goal I set as of today. Previously they weren't part of the valid workout types.
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SCPrunner wrote on 01/08/2009:
I´m going to begin this challenge. I hope that I have any time for end. It is the first moment that I run and participe in a challenge. Any advice?
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mmyers1 wrote on 01/01/2009:
I answered my own question! You have to select the goal, and select quit to remove it from your profile. In my case, it took both instances away so I had to re-create, but it picked up my stored workout sessions, so all is good!

Happy New Year all!!!
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mmyers1 wrote on 12/30/2008:
OK, somehow I got registered for the Marathon in a Month challenge twice!! How can I delete one of them??
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rberube54 wrote on 12/23/2008:
Thanks for the info Rahil...
but that is not the problem in my case. I am starting to realize however that this goal system does not pick up for Treadmill miles at the gym. I just tested my theory and it was correct. I tested my theory by logging a fake workout walk of 5 miles and as long as I was using one of the predetermined valid workout types, it would register. The only problem with that is it does not include my Treadmill workouts which is what I need it to do as a valid workout type.

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aprlshwrs wrote on 12/18/2008:
What a great idea and relatively simple to accomplish. My walks tend to be about 2-3 miles when I do them so this should really be doable. It's always good to set reasonable goals.
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cancerwalker wrote on 12/14/2008:
This is great. I am a cancer patient. I live in one of the coldest places in the world in Canada and I have to workout on a treadmill that flips my breakers afer 20 minutes of walking...
This is one of the only challenges that is just challenging enough without being overly strenuous on my bod.
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carolinebray82 wrote on 12/08/2008:
I hope that I can make this goal, because I live in CO and it snows and rains, and is cold, and I push my son in the stroller, so keep our fingers crossed!! I have walked 16.4 in one week.. that was exciting. we'll see how it goes!!
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Rahil wrote on 12/07/2008:
rberube54, the progress registers after delay of about a day. At least it has been happening like that in my case. Look for the progress report in your nightly email.
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rberube54 wrote on 12/04/2008:
OK what is going on here? My progress status bar has not worked for a day then decided to work by registering 45% which was correct and then all day yesterday and today until a minute ago it decided to work again and registered my newest workout to bring it to 55%. What is going on? Do any of you guys have this problem or is it just lucky me? lol
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guidob wrote on 11/17/2008:
My cycling miles are too on this page, the weekly report is correct though...

confused
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Bishop4 wrote on 11/15/2008:
My cycling miles are adding to this challenge. No just walking and running.
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shalomie wrote on 11/12/2008:
I used this to challenge my husband and my brother, how cool is that!
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