Virtual racer participants report better fitness and connectedness

We recently surveyed racers in the Triangle Tech Challenge, a multi-week virtual race between 43 teams from tech companies in North Carolina. Survey respondents said the race had significant positive effects on both individual habits and people’s social networks. Individual results Racers reported broad positive effects of the virtual race …

How can a virtual race improve corporate wellness?

Companies are scrambling to boost employee health by any means available. In part, this is altruism — a sincere desire to improve staffers’ physiques and psyches. Beyond altruism, boosting employee health can also boost profits because many companies with more than 60 staff now self-insure, ie pay for employee health care costs. Many …

Life on the pixelated border

Busy building virtual races for real athletes, we’re obviously fascinated by interactions on the borderline between machines and athletes. So two stories this week caught our eye. First, the Washington Post noted that, after winning a gold medal in the world championships in Beijing, the most-likely next Olympian gold medalist …

Upload mileage directly to your virtual race

Responding to popular demand… starting today, racers will be able to upload mileage directly through their race’s map. Accessed via the ‘log miles’ tab, the upload form has today’s date auto-filled, but also allows back-dating mileage for racers who miss logging a day or two. Right now, the app assumes …