the first smart health connected race is launched

February 03, 2020

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"We want to run the planet," is how the Checkpoints Race team announces the color. They are 5, they are French and they decided to play it "American" for the launch of the first smart health connected race. We present you this amazing competition which combines running with smart health connected objects and mastery of social networks.

The first smart health connected race in competition

Put on your sneakers, put on your sports outfit and go running… your smartphone in your pocket or your favorite smart health smart health connected object with you to calculate your steps. It's no more complicated than participating in Checkpoints Race. The principle : 5 months of qualification, from May to September 2020, you create your team of 5 runners, either your friends, your entourage … or the application finds for you competent companions around the world … And the closer you get to the final, the more the creators of this "ehealth game" IRL (IRL: in real life, “in real life”) will send you challenges to take up.

For example ? It's three o'clock in the morning, you receive a notification while you sleep: “Go run three kilometers now!"… Or "Drive so many miles before the end of the week“… In short,“ quests ”whether you will succeed or not, that will earn you Energy Points. With these points, you raise the level of your team towards the final, a relay race of the dimension of a 24h half-marathon, deployed in the Alps, with a organization worthy of the Tour com France. Helicopters, interactive live, insane achievement and famous sportsmen running for charity (the name of Paula Radcliffe is mentioned by the team, the British recordwoman of the marathon). In short, an incredible device is planned.

A well-oiled process

To reach this level of requirement, François André, former consultant, talks about 10,000 runners needed, worldwide. Launched on Indiegogo on February 23, 2020, the Checkpoints Race is framed by the skills of community manager Kévin Bottin, who has already participated in the organization of Mud Day, a crazy run in the mud, with obstacles and surpassing oneself in a hostile environment. Jean-Baptiste Brette and François André, the two co-founders did not leave room for chance by creating this unprecedented concept. They offered themselves the services of userADgents, a mobile digital agency, to design their own application (the Checkpoints Race qualification application, necessary for calculating your personal performance), but also the competition of AMPVISUALTV, for filming and television production, We Are Social, a digital communication agency and OC Sport, an event organization and marketing agency around sport.

In all, almost 2 years of preparation to negotiate a unique and unifying concept around running, raise funds and finally launch the crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo.

A race open to runners and social media addicts

The main interest of this race is that by buying your Solo pass on Indiegogo in "early bird“, For 15 dollars (about 13 euros), or your Team pass (for five players), at 65 dollars (about 57 euros), you offer yourself, with a significant reduction, your access to the race. Therefore, whether you are a Sunday runner or a seasoned marathon runner, you will be able to participate, without deploying any expensive financial means, nor start your usual schedule. But with real motivation, you will be boosted by the presence of your team, which runs with you and boosts the points won each week until the final. With a subtlety: the score is made up of 50% of your race results, and 50% of your score on social networks.

You will have to build an online reputation, and so, encourage supporters to follow you, at run for you. Supporters who can send you Energy Points boosts, the "currency" of this smart health connected game that one could almost qualify as an "augmented reality" of the sportsman. So be creative, why not try to make the buzz and thus become the first to win the most points in this race?

An idea that we will follow closely therefore. Checkpoints Race has its first partner, Monster Products, designer of smart health connected speakers and wireless headsets for sportspeople, and agglomerates thanks to their application for qualifying platforms such as RunKeeper, Nike +, Polar, mapmyrun, Runtastic, Garmin and Strava. We are seriously thinking of setting up our team of runners elsewhere … With only one concern: knowing that smart health connected objects often find their precision limits quickly, who will find strategies to cheat with step calculation? When asked about this, the creators of Checkpoints Race attest that some people might find ways to cheat, but the final is still a half-marathon that is not accessible to everyone, and the participants are located via GPS, so a performance recorded in the same place repeatedly over the 5 stages would necessarily be suspicious for the organizers, and therefore automatically disqualified.

For participate in the crowdfunding campaign and get your place in the race, go to Indiegogo.

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