By Walt Hickey Have a great weekend! Challenge Strava, the exercise tracking app, and Chipotle teamed up to create a competition in six different cities where a 300-meter segment next to a Chipotle was chosen and then whichever Strava user ran that designated length the most times in the month of January would win a year’s supply of Chipotle burritos. Some cities turned out in a reasonable way: New York’s winner ran the stretch 832 times, and Chicago’s winner ran it 613 times. Then there were the genuinely impressive performances: Denver’s winner did the run 1,041 times, beating out second place with 898 attempts, the Columbus winner shattered the competition with 1,000 runs along the stretch, crushing a second place with 376 runs, and the winner from Washington, D.C., hit the stretch 1,345 times, averaging 44 runs of it per day. The most impressive was L.A., where the winning score was
On Valentine's Day, I have a reservation at one of my wife's favourite restaurants. She deserves far more than that for putting up with me!