Thinning the Herd
Run as far as you can each week. Every Sunday the bottom 25% were eliminated, and whoever survived three cuts went head to head in a Grand Final week.
This one's finished. Get the app and find the next challenge in the Challenges feed.
Run more. Or go home.
For three weeks you logged as many kilometres as you could, Monday to Sunday. At the Sunday cutoff the bottom 25% were eliminated, and everyone who survived went into that week's prize draw.
Week 4 was the Grand Final: everyone still standing went head to head, and the most kilometres that week won. There was no minimum distance and no need to run every day, as long as you stayed out of the bottom 25%.
267 runners. 39,447km. Three cuts.
The herd got thinner every Sunday until the survivors fought it out in the Grand Final. Here's who logged the most kilometres across all four weeks.
Top 3 men
- 1Kris M.724.9 km
- 2Isaac C.708.3 km
- 3Jem R.703.5 km
Top 3 women
- 1Tammy W.563.8 km
- 2Margie H.530.6 km
- 3Rach J.435.2 km
- Day 1136
- Day 7130
- Day 14113
- Day 2177
- Day 2855
Runners who logged a run on that day in the Harry's app. You didn't have to run every day, so it shows who was active, not who survived each cut.
Bottom 25%. You're out.
Only runs that met the standard went towards your weekly total, and the cut was calculated at 11:59pm AEST every Sunday. Any of these and the run didn't count.
Averaging slower than 8:00 per km.
Didn't countOn a treadmill.
Didn't countA second submission on the same day.
Didn't countDistance, time, pace, cadence or heart rate missing.
Didn't countNo screenshot or activity link.
Didn't countTracking & Submission
- GPS wearable: Apple Watch, Garmin, COROS, Strava and the like. Distance, time, pace, cadence and heart rate all had to show.
- Ran more than once in a day? All your runs went up together in a single entry.
- Upload screenshots, an activity link, or both. Harry's could ask for the original files on any suspicious run.
- Weekly cutoff: calculated 11:59pm AEST Sunday, announced 12pm AEST Monday.
- Issues? ethan@hardcoreharrys.com.au
Next time
Thinning the Herd was free to enter with the Harry's Challenges app, and the app is free to download. Entry has closed, so grab the app and watch the Challenges feed for the next one.
Get the appGrand Final tiebreaker: the longest single run in Week 4, then the fastest average pace.
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Participation is voluntary and at your own risk.
You confirm you are in good physical health and assume all liability for any injuries. Hardcore Harry's AU PTY LTD reserves the right to disqualify any entry that violates submission rules. Repeated violations may lead to removal from the challenge.What is a last one standing challenge?
A last one standing challenge is an elimination. Everyone starts together, the target keeps getting harder or the slowest get cut, and you stay in for as long as you keep meeting it. The winner is the last person still going.
It comes in two common shapes. A rising target, where the distance grows every day or every lap until nobody can keep up. Or a regular cut, where the bottom of the field is knocked out at a set time, every week, until only a few are left.
That makes it a different kind of hard. Speed barely matters. Recovery, routine and stubbornness do, because the people who win are the ones who still turn up on the days it hurts.
- Cut-off
- The point where anyone short of the target is out. Miss it once and your challenge is over.
- Rising target
- A distance that grows as the challenge goes on, so every day is harder than the last.
- Last one standing
- The only finisher. Everyone else stops somewhere along the way.
From download to the draw.
- 1
Download Harry's
Free on the App Store and Google Play.
- 2
Join the challenge
This one's finished, so find the next challenge in the Challenges feed and tap join.
- 3
Do it. Prove it.
Track it with your watch or a running app, then log it in the Harry's app with a screenshot or your Strava link.
- 4
Climb the board
Every entry goes on the leaderboard, and earns your shot at the prizes.
The Thinning the Herd challenge, explained.
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Would you survive the cut?
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