Everest Elevation Challenge

[avezado_bello]

Mount Everest is an iconic reference to talk about sport and height. What about an Everest Elevation Challenge over a season or more time like a year? It would be great if we could try a challenge beyond a single month.
What do you think about it?

Greetings!

[Shant]

I love it! Let's get to Everesting! 🏔🏔🏔

@avezado_bello I will like this post once it has been approved for voting

[Soren]

Hey @avezado_bello 

Thanks for submitting your idea to create a challenge to climb the elevation of Everest. 

We have had a few challenges like as the "Mt. Everest Running Climbing Challenge" in the past, as well as The Le Col x Strava 8848 Challenge for 2 years in a row. So you'll be pleased to know that this is something we've previously done and will continue to do!

Another fun way to create a challenge that lasts longer than a month or that encompasses a specific elevation/distance is by creating a Group Challenge. There are currently 4 types of Group Challenges you can create:

• Most Activity: See who can log the most time, distance, elevation gain, or loss. You can set an optional goal, which establishes a milestone for the group to reach. The leaderboard ranks athletes by their overall activity.
• Fastest Effort: Average pace across a specific distance via running, virtual running, or wheelchair. Setting a race distance gives athletes in your challenge a guide on how far they should go. This is the distance all efforts will be measured over and the leaderboard will rank runners by their average pace.
• Longest Single Activity: Single activity recording of your longest distance across any sport that supports distance. The leaderboard ranks athletes by who has recorded the activity with the most distance.
• Group Goal: Chase a goal as a group. Choose between a time, distance, elevation gain, or elevation loss goal, and all activities will count towards the single goal. There is no leaderboard, but you can see how you’re contributing to the group effort.

Click HERE for more information about the Group Challenge feature. 

[avezado_bello]

Hi!

Thanks, @Shant and @Soren for your comments!

The Le Col challenges are a great option, but for me, as a runner, having a specific running challenge is definitely better. Keeping a challenge for a few months seems like an amazing and hard challenge. Perseverance is always a necessary quality of any runner
Greetings!

[Shant]

Hi @Soren 

Just adding on to what @avezado_bello said. The Le Col 8848m Challenge wasn't enough time. I didn't reach the elevation goal even though I ran every day that month.

Last month, it took me the full month to reach the 2000m running elevation challenge. If Everest elevation challenges (for runners and walkers) are stretched out to a few months, or even a year, more would be able to complete them.

Also, a long-term challenge motivates athletes to come back to Strava month after month, so I think there are more potential benefits to extending some challenges if other athletes like it too. 

"Climb the Height of Everest in One Year or Faster"

[VikK]

So is the idea, can we have some quarterly and annual challenges? eg run 2023km in 2023, run the elevation of Everest by March etc

[Shant]

@VikK that would be great. I see a lot of groups pop up for 2023 in 2023. If it was an official challenge, it would be interesting to track over the course of a full year and have athletes comment within challenges

[Soren]

Thanks everyone for chiming in here. @avezado_bello taking the most recent comments into consideration, I'd be happy to edit your original idea (subject) to reflect the suggestion for Strava Challenges with a duration longer than a month -- if that's your desire. Otherwise, you can submit a new idea. Let me know.

[avezado_bello]

Hi everyone!

I am very glad that this idea has been considered. Thanks, @Shant, @VikK and, of course, @Soren, for your participation in the discussion. The idea is clear: to complete the Everest height in a time longer than a month, maybe in one season like spring or summer, or another amount of time like even a year. The name could be Everest Elevation Challenge as said @Shant, if I am not wrong, a few days ago.

Thanks a lot one more time for considering this idea!

Greetings!

[Soren]

This idea has been reconsidered by our moderation team and is now open to voting.

[Jane]

Hello. We wanted to let you know that your idea submission from February of 2023 will be archived. While this idea is interesting, we don’t have any immediate plans to implement this and currently aren’t able to prioritize this idea.

Please note that your feedback is valuable to Strava. As stated in our Community Idea Guidelines, we receive many idea submissions each week, and realistically, there may be various reasons that prevent us from including an idea on our Product Roadmap.  

We want to thank you for taking the time to submit your idea and we look forward to your continued contributions to the Strava Community.  

[avezado_bello]

Hi!

Thanks for considering the idea and for all of your comments!

Greetings from Galicia, Spain!