E-Marathon
Steps convert to distance at a ratio you set. Ranked by total distance, cumulative, no GPS. 2 to 4 weeks, or a single day.
Self-serveBuilt from the admin dashboard, like any other challenge.
Solutions · Virtual Marathon
A virtual marathon your whole workforce can finish by walking.
Vantage Fit counts distance from the steps people already take, so nobody opens a GPS workout and nobody signs up. Every region runs the same event on its own local clock.
Distance from steps, not GPS
Nobody signs up, everyone is enrolled
One event, every local clock
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Illustrative data
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How distance is counted
Steps become distance. Nobody opens a GPS workout.
One setting decides how steps convert. Everything else about a virtual marathon is dates and audience.
10,000 steps
1,000 steps = 1 km
10 km added to the total
Set the ratio once at setup. Choose kilometers or miles.
Cumulative
No daily target
No streak to break
Missing a day resets nothing. The total keeps growing.
"Employees do not need to use GPS workouts or run specific routes. Their regular daily steps are automatically counted."
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Step 3 of 5 · Distance conversion
Steps to distance ratio1,000 steps = 1 km
Distance unitKilometers
Two settings, then audience, then review and publish. E-Marathons are intentionally simple.
Illustrative dataTwo ways to run a marathon here. Only one needs a phone call.
Marathon Event
A real GPS-tracked race with distance tiers, including 5K, 10K, half and full.
Arranged with your account managerFor an on-site or GPS-timed race alongside the step event.A full marathon's worth of steps in one day is roughly 50,000 steps, so pick a distance most of your workforce can reach.
The run book
Your four weeks, and what the platform does without you.
10 minutes of configuration. One week of promotion. The rest runs itself.
Configureabout 10 minutes
You do
Set the dates, keep the default 1,000 steps = 1 km, pick kilometers or miles, pick the audience.
Vantage Fit does
Marks the challenge private the moment you filter the audience, so it stays invisible outside that group.
Promotestart a week out
You do
Email, push and an in-app banner, plus one leader posting their own progress.
Vantage Fit does
Sends the enrollment email as people are enrolled.
Launch dayzero minutes
You do
Nothing. There is no registration to chase.
Vantage Fit does
Enrolls everyone the rule matches, moves the challenge from Upcoming to Ongoing, and sends the start email.
Mid-eventweeks two and three
You do
Post the running company total. Add late joiners by search or CSV.
Vantage Fit does
Sends the weekly progress email, awards daily step badges within minutes, and tells people when their rank moves. Late joiners score from their join date.
Finish and settleplus 3 days
You do
Share the company total the same day. Pick your winners after the buffer.
Vantage Fit does
Holds a 3-day buffer for late Fitbit and Garmin syncs, then settles rankings. Results stay in the Past tab.
Announce the total company distance while it climbs. Something like "We just passed 5,000 km as a company!"
Reminder emails are off by default and switched on by your account manager.
Follow-through
Nothing to sign up for, nothing to keep up with.
No registration drive.
An audience rule enrolls everyone who matches, or you add people by search or CSV upload.
Nothing to log.
Steps sync in the background from Apple Health on iOS and Google Fit on Android. No wearable required.
Nothing to fall behind on.
No daily target and no streak, so a missed day resets nothing.
Badges land all the way down the board.
Daily step badges re-earn each time someone crosses a threshold, so last place still collects something.
Anyone can leave the rankings without leaving the event.
Leaderboard opt-out hides a person from the board while they keep participating and keep earning.
You're in. No action needed.
Race to the Moon opens on your local clock. Your steps start counting on day one.
Your week 3 summary
Distance this week41.2 km
Rank#58
Every local clock
One event. Every time zone gets a full local day.
The last global event probably ran on headquarters' clock. Here are the four behaviors that decide it, and the two places to be careful.
Localized start
The event opens at local midnight on the start date, wherever the person is.
Localized end
It closes at local midnight on the end date, so a 30-day event is a true 30 calendar days for every participant.
Rewards in local currency
Values are configured in USD and shown in each employee's local currency, from a country-relevant gift card catalog.
A 3-day sync buffer
Late Fitbit and Garmin syncs still land before rankings settle.
Push notifications arrive at each recipient's corresponding local time, so stagger your sends. Report date filters run on the admin's time zone, not the participant's.
Final standings
Illustrative data
One end date. Five local clocks. Provisional until Oct 3 while late device syncs land.
Reporting
What you take into the Monday review.
- Score and Steps leaderboards
Per-person score breakdown, opened from any row.
- Participation rate on the challenge card
Shown next to status, type and date range.
- Employee Report
Active, Inactive and Dormant enrollment status.
- Export CSV on every report
Your filters travel with the export.
Employees rank by distance. Your export comes out in steps and score. The steps column ranks in exactly the same order, because distance is steps divided by one company-wide ratio.
Recognized apps and devices only
One primary device at a time, so nothing double counts
Nothing final until the 3-day buffer closes
Exports are a manual click. Vantage Fit does not schedule or email reports.
Race to the Moon · Leaderboard
Illustrative data
Customer results
Named programs, and the numbers their sources reported.
participation in a two-week walkathon with 72+ participants and 11M+ steps
POSOCO · Walking Miles, Losing InchesDec 6 – 19, 2021
participants across 6 in-house teams in a 30-day virtual walkathon
Landmark GroupFeb 8 – Mar 9, 2021
active users in a global step-a-thon, with 87.33% step growth versus the first challenge. Across all three 2025 challenges, 30+ countries took part
Wipro · Spirit of Wipro Global Step-a-thonJul 28 – Aug 17, 2025
“Our employees highly appreciated the gamification elements integrated into the platform, which added an element of fun to the Walkathon.”— Aishwarya Verma, Assistant Manager HR, Grid India
“This was our second year with them and we will return back next year as well. Their platform is simple and easy to use both as a user and as an admin.”— Padmini Rudrapatna, Compare & Connect
Results from named customer programs, labeled the way each source measured them. Outcomes vary by workforce and program design.
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Enterprise security & compliance
A public leaderboard does not mean public health data.
Employees see their own data. HR sees aggregate trends.
Follows HIPAA guidelines
A virtual marathon puts step data in play and nothing else, and that data is handled under HIPAA guidelines.
SOC 2 Type II
An independently audited control set your security team can review.
Secured regional data hosting
India, the US, the EU and the UAE, chosen at signup, with no cross-region sharing.
Visible by choice
Ranking visibility is an opt-out, so taking part in the event and appearing on the board are two separate decisions.
Follows HIPAA guidelines
SOC 2 Type II
Secured regional data hosting
Security documentation is available during evaluation.
Questions before you put a date on the calendar.
Do employees need to run, or use GPS?
No. Distance is calculated from step count, not GPS. Employees do not need to use GPS workouts or run specific routes. Their regular daily steps are counted automatically, which is why a walker finishes the same event as a runner.
Do employees need a wearable?
No. The phone tracks steps through Apple Health on iOS and Google Fit on Android. Fitbit or Garmin take over when connected, and Vantage Fit uses one primary device at a time so nothing is counted twice.
Do employees have to sign up?
No. An audience rule enrolls everyone who matches, or you add people by search or CSV upload. There is no browse-and-join flow, so your participation number does not depend on a registration drive.
How does it work across time zones?
The event opens at local midnight on the start date and closes at local midnight on the end date, so every participant gets the same number of full days. Rewards are shown in each employee's local currency.
When are results final?
Results stay provisional for 3 days after the end date while late Fitbit and Garmin syncs land. Rankings, ranking bonuses, and certificates if your admin enabled them, settle after that buffer.
One event is a campaign. Decide what it starts.
In a 30-minute demo we will set up an E-Marathon against a date you already have, and show you the leaderboard and the export it produces.
Kickoff for a 30-day challenge
Midpoint energizer
Program finale
One event everyone finishes. One number leadership recognizes.