The 100 Miles in May Challenge is for the workplace, for solo flyers (individuals), or any group of family, friends or classmates wanting to build a fun team!

1. Everyone first needs to create an account as the first step.
2. You then Join the Challenge and register as a Business Team, Fun Team, or an individual/Solo Flyer.
3. You then need to join an existing team (if you have been invited by another member), create a new team, or Go Solo.

Go to “My Team” on the Dashboard and select the button “Leave _____”. Confirm and search the team you would like to join. If you are the team owner, all other team members must leave or be removed first before you can leave.

The 100 Miles in May Challenge is a fundraiser for the Healthy Futures program, which works to empower Alaska’s youth to build the habit of daily physical activity. It’s an excellent opportunity to encourage physical activity among employees, family, or friends, and role model healthy behavior for youth. As participants enter their exercise into a mileage converter, they can track their status on group, category, and statewide leaderboards! The 100 Miles in May concept was developed by R&M Consultants, Inc.

All donations go to support the Healthy Futures, the signature program of the Alaska Sports Hall of Fame, a 501(c) nonprofit organization (EIN 81-0649085). Healthy Futures partners with schools across the state to incentivize physical activity through 6 challenges throughout the school year. Funding also goes to event support and health equity. See https://www.healthyfuturesak.org for more information.

A pledge is required in order to participate.

Teams/participants have three options:

• Business teams (i.e. those formally associated with a business or organization) must make a team pledge. Members of a business team will not be required to make a personal pledge, though they are welcome to do so.
• Fun and family teams are not required to make a team pledge, but if the team does not make a pledge, each individual member of the team must make a personal pledge to participate.
• Solo participants are required to make a personal pledge.

Go to “My Team” and click on “Edit Team”.

Go to “My Dashboard” and click on the dollar amount.

Go to “My Dashboard” and click on “Donation Info” to view your current pledge recap. You can then choose from the available donation method options, including PayPal or mailing a check.

Only the team captain can make a donation for the team. If you are the team captain, go to “My Team” and click on “Donation Info” to view your team’s current pledge recap. You can then choose from the available donation method options, including PayPal or mailing a check.

If you choose to send your donation by check, please send it to:

Healthy Futures PO Box 110201 Anchorage, AK 99511

The base unit is the amount of energy it takes to run/walk 1 mile. Even though there will be other activities such as hiking, skiing, biking, etc. that you can measure the exact distance using a device, maps, etc., the energy output for them is more or less than walking/running 1 mile so they are converted using time instead (using national standards for conversion) or miles are adjusted to reflect effort. For example: biking is one of the distance categories that you enter in distance, but the output distance is converted to equivalent miles running/walking (not 1:1). If you feel you are doing a vigorous activity and getting less distance for your energy output, please use your discretion and add more time. There are lots of variable energy outputs for many of these activities so we understand that we can’t measure every single one so we trust your judgment and honesty.

Email us and we will consider adding it, but if it is an activity not frequently used by many, find the most similar one and use your best judgement.

Use your daily activity as part of your 100 Miles and convert it using the many online tools to convert steps to miles. If you are a nurse, construction worker etc. and walk throughout your day, use that activity as measured by your pedometer, smart phone, etc. but do not double count your activity (enter steps that were also part of another exercise).

Go to “My Dashboard” and your activities are listed below the main block. Scroll to desired activity and to the right (may have to scroll on mobile devices) and choose, “Edit”, “Copy”, or “Delete” activity.

Yes, you can toggle between entering 1 activity or more by selecting “Multiple Activities” and adding as many as you’d like to corresponding days on one page.

Donating/pledging teams only and individuals are only eligible to win. If you are on a team that isn’t sponsoring as a team, but you donate individually, you are eligible to win as an individual. Healthy Heroes are not eligible for prizes.

• The top 5 overall participants (by total miles completed in May) will receive a Healthy Futures hoodie and 100 Miles in May beanie!
• The top 5 overall participants by Score (new this year!) will receive a Healthy Futures hoodie and 100 Miles in May beanie!
• The top overall contributing business team (based on average miles per participant) will receive a scheduled visit from a Healthy Hero athlete, and each participant on that team completing over 100 miles will receive a 100 Miles in May t-shirt!*
• Participants from the top, contributing, non-business team (based on average miles per participant) with 100 or more miles will win Health Futures t-shirts. **
• Top business donations will be profiled on the Healthy Futures website and social media.*
• Participants donating $50 or more will be entered in drawings for schwag from Skinny Raven, First National Bank of Alaska, Bear Tooth, Healthy Futures, and more!
• A participant donating $100 or more will be drawn for 1 of 2 round-trip tickets from Alaska Air -All 100 milers who opted in for prizes will receive a “Finisher” sticker

Healthy Futures will post regular leaderboard updates of all eligible participants.* *Businesses/organizations must contribute pledges to be eligible for prizes

If some of your teammates choose not to log miles, the team owner can choose to remove them to increase the team’s miles/participant average by going to “My Team” and clicking the trash can icon to the right of the user’s name.

There are 4 leaderboards to view rankings: Teams or Individuals, Industry type, Team size, Average miles/participant, and Total miles. You need to select the one you would like to see using the drop-down boxes at the top of the page. The winning team is based on average miles/participant. This allows small teams to be competitive with larger ones.

Your score is a composite that rewards more than just total mileage — it’s designed to encourage consistent, well-rounded participation. The best way to improve it is to log miles every day, try a variety of activities, follow through on your pledge, and keep building on your pace from week to week.

Scores run from 0–100. Each component is independently normalized to a 0–100 scale, then combined as a weighted sum using these weights:

Component	Weight
Effort	25%
Consistency	20%
Engagement	10%
Variety	20%
Generosity	20%
Momentum	5%

Effort — logarithmic scale of your total miles, relative to the highest miler in the challenge:

log(your_miles + 1) / log(max_miles + 1)

The +1 prevents log(0) and ensures the top miler scores exactly 100. The log scale means early miles give a strong boost; gains diminish as you pull further ahead.

Consistency (personal) — fraction of elapsed challenge days on which you logged at least one activity:

days_active / elapsed_days

Consistency (team) — total (member, day) activity pairs divided by the maximum possible (every member active every day):

sum_of_member_active_days / (total_members × elapsed_days)

Engagement — for individuals this is always 100. For teams, it measures how broadly the team is participating: each member’s miles divided by the challenge-wide average miles per participant, capped at 1.0, then averaged across the whole team:

avg(min(1.0, member_miles / challenge_avg_miles))

A team where everyone contributes scores higher than one where a few people carry the load.

Variety — unique activity types you’ve logged, relative to the most varied participant in the challenge:

unique_activities / max_unique_activities

Generosity (personal) — logarithmic scale of your total donations, relative to the top donor in the challenge:

log(total_donated + 1) / log(max_donation + 1)

Generosity (team) — same formula, but uses per-capita donations so team size doesn’t give an unfair advantage:

log((total_donated / members) + 1) / log(max_per_capita_donation + 1)

Momentum — compares miles this week vs. last week:

• If you had zero miles last week: 100 if you logged anything this week, 50 if you logged nothing.
• Otherwise: min(100, this_week / last_week × 100) — capped at 100.

Who is included?

Only participants with an active pledge count (either team or personal pledge). Users must also have opted in to competitive rankings. Teams must have more than one member; Solo Flyers are excluded from the team leaderboard.

When are scores updated?

Scores are recalculated once a hour.

In the upper right-hand corner, click on your name and choose “Edit Profile”.

In the upper right-hand corner, click on your name and choose “Edit Profile” and check/uncheck “I want to display my activities on the public leaderboards and calculations.”

Go to “My Team” and then “Edit Team” in the menu under the main block (lower left).