50 days x 50 minutes of activity for families and sports enthusiasts. Join HejazUltra 50×50 Summer Challenge powered by ASICS: Run or Walk!
Every day, starting June 15th, 2023, for 50 days, until August 3rd, ASICS & Hejaz Ultra are inviting everyone to Run or Walk, for up to 50 minutes. Summer in Saudi Arabia is not an excuse not to stay fit or become fit! And it’s FREE to join!
You should share with us what distance he/she covered using a Fitness Tracker app amongst free readily available used by the community. Registered participants will receive the link to upload their 50×50 Summer Challenge results.
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There is no age limit to join the Join HejazUltra 50×50 Summer Challenge We encourage families to take this Challenge together. We highly recommend kids under 15 years of age limit the activity to 20 minutes only. We will take age into account and have created a category for our young athletes! Please be responsible and keep the family safe, making sure everyone stays hydrated during the activity… Prefer an early morning or late evening session!
Every day, we will publish the results of the previous day, by category, on our website https://HejazUltra.org in order to keep everyone motivated.
The Hejaz Ultra 50×50 Summer Challenge powered by ASICS rules are very simple:
The winners of the Hejaz Ultra 50×50 Summer Challenge powered by ASICS will be those doing the most days out of 50 days possible, and amongst those, those who cover the most distance in those 50 days x 50 minutes. It is quite possible that no one will manage a streak of 50 continuous days. We have not yet a formal confirmation of the attendance of the current Saudi Arabia Record holder, our very own Ahmed Nasser who currently holds the Kingdom record of 100 days, covering 836 km.
The top 3 Finishers will receive a full-kit prize from ASICS in each category ( top 3 Male / Top 3 Female ) x ( Adults / Children).
Up to 50 finishers will receive an ASICS Tee-shirt!
We will have a few Group runs to support you. It will be a mix of Morning runs ( before work) starting 05:00 AM and evening runs. A selection of road and trail locations. You are welcome to do your activity anywhere, in Saudi Arabia or outside!
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We want to thank our sponsor, ASICS, who will be providing prizes for the winners and for the finishers.
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We want to thank Restart for their contribution:
The winners (Males, Females & kids) of the Hejaz Ultra 50×50 Summer Challenge powered by ASICS will receive the following:
You do not have to spend money and use the latest technology to join the 50×50 Summer Challenge. What is important is that you get out of the house and exercise! If you want to use an analog stopwatch and run loops around an athletic track, this is perfectly fine, just to participate.
To qualify for the prize, however, you will have to submit an auditable link to your outdoors run to the Page we will share with you which would indicate the “Elapsed time” ( and not the “moving time” meaning you should not pause your timer if you stop for a while) and indicate the map on Strava If in doubt, contact info@hejazultra.org
You can use a Sports Watch or your Smart Phone. Pick a brand for the watch. and select whichever “app” you want for your SmartPhone.
We recommend Strava. it is available for both iOS and Android from your local apps store or on strava.com. If your Sports watch syncs to Strava, you do not need to run with your phone. If you do not have a sports watch, then you should install Strava on your GPS-enabled smartphone, and track activity with Strava. Pedometer watches do not qualify as sports watches as they count steps and do not track accurate distances over GPS. Pedometer apps don’t do the trick either.
Conclusion: If you don’t know what to use, use your GPS enabled watch synced to Strava. If you have no watch, use Strava on your phone. if you don’t want to use Strava, contact us to check if what you have in mind can do the trick. Our decision will be final. and you can get your registration money back!
For the prizes, we can not accept Apps that will not allow you to share an auditable link such as Nike apps, or which give only a screenshot. ( this is a running challenge, not a photoshop contest). But again, you are encouraged to get out and exercise and report your times/distances to us regardless.