The President's Challenge is a Sneaky Group of Folks

[Ned]

So, even though we managed to get the old CT Presidential Challenge thread locked for excessive drift, I kept plugging along with my fitness program.



With this morning's run, I earned the President's Champions Gold Award, what I thought was the top award, after logging over 100,000 points since joining the "CT Challenge" group.


When I hit "enter" I was expecting some sort of congratulatory message as I completed the program.

Instead, I found out that there is higher level Platinum Award.

And that I am only 17% of my way towards the 500,000 points requred. 


Sigh.  Guess I have to keep running.

At my current 30-35 miles per week, I will earn the Platinum Award in June of 2012.   



A  tip for folks unfamiliar with the Presdient's Challenge program.

  Make sure you are in the right program for you.  Active Lifestyle, Presidential Champions, and Presidential Champions - Advanced Performance each have different rules and goals.  I didn't realize that the Presidential Champions program had a 750 point per day maximum (to encourage daily fitness) which is not a good fit with my "three long runs a week" work out plan.  Since my runs are pretty long, I "waste" over 25% of my points since they are over the 750/day limit.  It was my bad for not reading carefully.  The Advance Performance program doesn't seem to limit daily points, but the points required for awards are higher.


I need a donut . . . .

[winterg]

Yeah, I figured I'd do the Presidential Champions route.  After I hit Bronze, I got kinda lax about logging my points.  A good way to generate points, even on days you don't do a solid workout, buy a pedometer and track that every day. 

[RiverAux]

You think they would have done some site upgrades in the years since they started the site, but it just doesn't allow you all that many options.  I still use it, but am not thrilled with it. 

[RiverAux]

I also don't think there is a 750 point daily limit.  I just did a comparison for my age group nationwide for Dec. 26th and the max score was 1066.