Members of Greater Rochester Running Club are invited to participate in the free, annual MILEStone Patch Challenge! Not a member? Sign up when prompted.

This program replaced the previous manual process of emailing someone at the end of the year with all the races you did. However, for those who truly have difficulties with the new process, so long as you sign up before the end of the year, we will help with the end-of-year data entry. We will not accept paper copies or pictures of lists.

ABOUT THE PROGRAM
Patches are earned based on the number of miles run or walked at in-person races for the whole of each year, January 1st to December 31st. You may use the running portion of a multisport event. Virtual races, untimed fun walks/runs, and training miles do not count. Although when you submit your results it's a button for submitting "virtual" results, that refers to the submitting the results for this virtual - as opposed to in-person - yearlong challenge, not to virtual races. Results must be input by the end of the first full week of the year following the current challenge year. (Ex. Races from 1/1/2024 to 12/31/2024 would have had a results entry deadline 1/11/2025.) This is so we can reopen the challenge for the next year quickly.

MILESTONE PATCH LEVELS
Patches are given out at the annual awards banquet that is usually at the end of February or beginning of March. Any not picked up are mailed after the banquet.

Platinum (300+ miles)
Gold (200-299 miles)
Silver (100-199 miles)
Bronze (50-99 miles)

HOW TO USE THIS CHALLENGE TRACKER
Submitting Race Mileage
There are multiple ways to get to the page for logging activities. For brevity, we're not listing them all, but we'll describe two options.

Option 1: Manual entry as the year progresses.

First Time: Click Results in the challenge page's menu. Click the "Submit Virtual Results" button. (That's RunSignup's term; it doesn't mean submit virtual race times.) Search for yourself. Click on "Log Activities" under the "Event" name. Follow prompts on the resulting page to log activities (your races).

Subsequent Times: From the Results Page, click your name, click on "Log Activities."

Option 2: For those who want to use a spreadsheet, you can create a CSV file. It must include the following fields in the first row: Activity Date (yyyy/mm/dd), Activity Time (hhss), Activity Miles (up to two decimal places), and Comment. If you do it throughout the year, you'll need to either overwrite the previous entries in your file or create a new one when you want to upload it. Otherwise, you can wait until yearend to do it, but you won't be included in all the fun bits throughout the year, prior to the actual awarding of badges.

OTHER THINGS YOU CAN DO
You can set your own goals on the "Log Activity" page. See your goal progress, track digital badges earned, and compare your progress with others' on your Individual Result page (click your name when looking at the Results page).