There are 6 Teams consisting of approx. 20 players per team. It is very important that you stay in contact with your team with occasional posts on the team's thread. Team interaction helps provide the motivation for most members. This race is a team effort and depends on everyone's participation for the entire 8 weeks.

Exercise minutes are recorded daily on the weekly spreadsheet that is associated with your team. Exercise minutes include all exercise done for the purpose of exercise. Physical activities associated with work or normal household activities are not to be included. Physical tracking devices (such as FitBit) may be used to record specific timed activities, but aggregate daily totals (total active minutes, total steps, total walking etc.) are not to be counted (walking to the refrigerator for ice cream would show up on a fitness monitor as "activity"). If you are not exercising for a day or so, please enter a zero for that day, so that your team knows that they haven't lost you.

In addition to the exercise minutes, there will be up to 3 individual challenges per week. 2 are usually physical challenges, and 1 is usually nutritional. The challenges typically contain several videos for either instructions or as "follow along" activities. Completing these challenges is EXTREMELY important, if your team is to do well, as they count heavily towards your team's point total. We realize that some challenges might be difficult or impossible for some players. If you have problems with a challenge then contact @hawkins410 or myself (@MissionEnforcer), and we will try and come up with modifications to suit your needs.

If you are going to miss a week for any reason, you will have to let your Team Captain know (preferably in advance) in order to insure that you are not replaced.

The Race Week runs Monday through Sunday each week. All times are based on Pacific Time. The weekly spreadsheet "closes" promptly at 9pm (21:00) Sunday evenings Pacific Time. The new week's agenda will be released approximately at the same time. The new week's spreadsheet will be available several hours after that.

International players should use their local time (Sunday midnight thru Sunday midnight) for recording their exercise minutes. Depending on where you live in the world, there might be a several hour delay before knowing what the challenges are, however most challenges are relatively simple, and should have no impact on the race results.

This race provides the opportunity to learn about places and cultures around the world. Many long distance friendships have been formed and have been shown to continue even after each race ends.