Pacer’s Virtual Challenges Motivate Participants to Get More Active Together with Improved Goal Setting and Greater Ease of Use

Pacer Health, the world’s most downloaded daily activity tracking app for Android and iOS, today announced multiple upgrades for Pacer Groups and Pacer for Teams virtual challenge platforms. Pacer Groups and Pacer for Teams Account Owners now have access to four virtual challenge types, as well as extra challenge features and settings that create an improved in-app experience, including participant goal progress displays, improved branding opportunities, and external links to non-profit fundraising websites.

“Pacer continually strives to improve the user experience for its audience,” said Michael Caldwell, Co-Founder, Pacer. “We hope these upgrades to Pacer Groups and Pacer for Teams will empower creators to host virtual fitness challenges that motivate and inspire their participants.”

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Pacer Virtual Challenges now include:

• Total Steps – Accumulates the total amount of steps an individual achieves during the specified challenge period. Admins can also add a total step goal for individuals and teams that are tracked in a real-time progress bar.
• Total Distance – Accumulates the total amount of distance in kilometers or miles that an individual achieves during the specified challenge period. Admins can also add a total distance goal for individuals that are tracked in a real-time progress bar.
• Daily Step Goal – Participants are rewarded a point for each day they meet or exceed a chosen daily step goal during a chosen period.
• GPS Activity Pace Challenge – Participants use Pacer’s GPS activity-tracking feature to record a 5K, 10K, or other specified distance and are ranked by their per kilometer or mile pace time.

Individuals, communities, brands, and organizations can use Pacer virtual events to create one to 60-day long challenges, run different challenge types at the same time, and promote a brand or fundraising cause.

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For easy Challenge participant onboarding, all Pacer Group and Team Challenges have a permanent invite link and corresponding QR Code that, when tapped on a smartphone, will guide users/participants through the Pacer app download, Pacer account creation, and Challenge entrance processes. There’s also a third Group/Org/Challenge Key entry option.

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