For every person who signs up, we donate a hot meal to the Church's City Mission's Christmas campaign; Delight someone who dreads Christmas. This means that your registration contributes to the Church's City Mission being able to serve a hot meal to someone who needs it. Read more about the Church's City Mission and their work on their website . 

Registration for Julechallenge 2023 opens closer to December.

Read more about the various challenges you can sign up for under "How does Christmas Challenge work?". 

You can sign up for the Christmas challenge right up until 24th of December if you want to! When you sign up, you are in any case entered into the draw for the daily challanges you participate in. At the same time, you support the Church's City Mission's Christmas campaign, Give joy to someone who dreads Christmas, regardless of when you sign up.

BUT - If you want to take part in the main draw you must complete a minimum of 15 out of 24 daily challenges . This means that you must register on the 9th of December at the latest , and complete all the daily challenges up to and including 24th of December. 

It is of course possible to give the Christmas challenge as a gift - and what a nice gift it is! At the same time as you get them moving, you are also helping to make more people who dread Christmas happy! Challenge or take friends, family or colleagues with you on the year's finest Christmas calendar!

Gift cards can be bought when we have opened registration closer to December. 

Registration fee
You pay NOK 189 to participate in the Christmas Challenge, regardless of which of the three variants you choose. 

For every person who signs up, we contribute to the Church's City Mission's Christmas campaign; "Joy someone who dreads Christmas". This means that your participation contributes to the Church's City Mission being able to serve a hot meal to someone who needs it.

No, unfortunately that is not possible.

But remember that you can walk, jog, jog, run, cycle, ski or use a treadmill. You can also split your sessions, see more information about this under "Can I split a hatch into several sessions?". 

Julechallenge is a Christmas calendar that challenges you to move in December. Every day from the 1st to the 24th of December, we give you a daily challenge that tells you how many kilometers you have to move that day. We send you the information about today's challenge by e-mail at midnight every day. You must complete the session on the date it applies to, and register the session before 23:59 the same day. 

You choose how you want complete each daily challenge. You can walk, gog, jog, run, ski, cycle, be outside or inside on a treadmill - it's all up to you! 

You log the session using a smartphone, smartwatch or activity band that supports session logging. You then register the session to confirm that you have participated in today's challenge. Read more about how to register your session under "How do I complete a daily challenge?". 

Don't want to register the time of your session? You can register as "Finisher" without time. Read more about the different options for registering your sessions under "How do I register my sessions?"

The prize pool
You choose how many hatches you want to carry out, but for each hatch you participate in and register, you are included in the daily draw for a prize from one of our partners. If you complete and register a minimum of 15 out of 24 hatches, you will be in the main draw after 24 December. There we have a COMPLETELY RAW prize pool with lots of nice prizes. See all the prizes we awarded in 2022 HERE ! 

We have three different Christmas Challenges, which have a different number of kilometers to be completed in total, divided on 24 daily challenges. 

Our three different Christmas challenges are:

• 100 km
  If you sign up for 100 km, you get slots containing 2 to 6 kilometers per day. This means that the slots can contain 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 kilometers that you will move that day. In total, it will be 100 km if you complete all the hatches distributed from 1 to 24 December. 
• 150 km
  If you sign up for 150 km, you get slots containing 4 to 10 km per day. This means that the hatches can contain anything from 4 to 10 kilometres. But 4 is the shortest and 10 is the longest a hatch can contain. In total, it will be 150 km if you complete all the hatches distributed from 1 to 24 December. 
• 200 km
  If you sign up for 200 km, you get slots that contain anything from 6 to 21 km per day. This means that the slots can contain anything from 6 to 21 kilometers, but 6 is the shortest and 21 is the longest a slot can contain. In total, it will be 200 km if you complete all the hatches distributed from 1 to 24 December.
  We can reveal that there is only one slot containing 21 km, but we are not saying when it will arrive! 😉 

The daily challenges contain a nice mix of shorter and longer sessions. Good luck, and enjoy our Christmas challenge in December!

If you have taken part in one of our virtual races before, the Julechallenge works in much the same way.

HOW TO COMPLETE A DAILY CHALLENGE

Every day at 00:01 you will receive a new challenge by e-mail

Open the email and find out how many kilometers you have to move in today's challenge. (No email it? Check junk mail/spam, sometimes the email ends up there. If you check exactly at 00:01 and you haven't received anything - give it a few minutes, maybe it takes a little extra time).

The challenge must be completed on the date it applies to and you must register your session before 23:59 on the correct date to be entered into the draw for today's prize.

Start the session on your chosen device and complete the distance in today's challenge.

You must time yourself/log your session. You can do this using a smartphone, smart watch, heart rate monitor or an activity band that supports session logging. This will be your personal "virtual timer". You can also register your challenge without entering a time, see more information further down the page.

Breaks?

Do you have a device that records breaks? Although your device may record breaks you take throughout your session, our time system does not! It measures the total time of the session, from start to finish.

Closing and registration of the session

When you have completed the number of kilometers required by the day's challenge, you stop the session and save it to your device. Then go to the email you received with information about today's challenge and press "UPLOAD MY SESSION". NOTE - it is important that you do this in the email that applies to the challenge you have completed. When uploading your time you get several options for how you can register the session. Read more about how the various options work HERE . Remember that you must register today's challenge before 23:59 same day!

Will my session be visible to others?

No, we have a list with an overview of who has completed, and here it will appear that you have participated - but your time will not show. Here you can search for yourself and see how many hatches you are registered for. See the list from 2022 here.

Do I have to record time?

No, you don't have to. If you do not wish to register a time, you register as "completed" without a time.

Prize draw

For each slot you register, you are entered into the draw for today's prize. If you complete 15 out of 24 hatches, you are also in the main draw for 24 December! So here it's just a matter of completing as many hatches as you can! 

Of course you can! You simply add up the time of the sessions you have completed to reach the target for today's challenge, and register the total time on your daily challenge using the alternativ for manual time registering. If you do not want to enter a time for your sessions, you register as completed without entering a time.

You will not be able to use any of the other options to register your time, as it is not possible to add up two or more sessions into one session.

If you complete the the daily challenge in this way, you are still included in the prize draws. Just remember to register the challenge before 23:59 same day!

All smartphones, smartwatches, fitness watches or activity bands that support tracking of sessions can be used.

If you don't have a watch, you can use a smartphone by downloading the Strava app. Here you can create a profile completely free of charge, and you can easily use the app to log the session. After the end of the session, you can easily register the session with time if you wish. 

RaceConnect
You can also load the RaceConnect app, which automatically uploads your session without you having to do anything after the session ends. You receive the Tracker ID for RaceConnect in the e-mail for each individual slot. Note – there is a new Tracker ID for each slot. Read more about RaceConnect HERE . 

Read everything about how to register your session under "How do I register my session?". 

Attention - should you use a Garmin or Polar watch? Please read this information BEFORE starting your session.

When you have completed the number of kilometers required by the daily challenge, you stop the session and save it to your device. Then go to the email you received with information about today's daily challenge and press the button "LAST OPP ØKTEN DIN HER".
NOTE - it is important that you do this in the email that applies to the daily challenge you have completed. 

You will then be taken to a page with five options for how to register your session:

1. Connect app or watch (Garmin Connect *, Strava, Polar * and Suunto)
2. RaceConnect - automatic upload of your session
3. Upload activity file (GPX, TCX or FIT)
4. Manual registration
5. Register finished without time

Read this guide to learn how to register your time with one of the options above and how RaceConnect works. 

Remember that you must register today's challenge before 23:59 same day! 

*NOTE – are you going to use a Garmin or Polar watch? Please read this information BEFORE starting your session.

Is the total number of kilometers in your session shorter or longer than the daily challenge required? 

For your time to be true, you must complete the number of kilometers required in the daily challenge. 

If you have moved further than the daily challenge requires, you are fine, the system cuts the session at the correct number of kilometres.

If the session is shorter than the slot requires, our system will calculate an average time based on the total of your session, and therefore you will not get your true time.

To be entered into the prize draw, you must register the sessions to confirm that you have completed the challenge of the day in the calendar. You are of course most welcome to sign up for the calendar without registering your sessions, you are supporting a good cause anyway! 🙂 

No, we have a list with an overview of who has completed, and here it will appear that you have participated - but your time will not show. Here you can search for yourself and see how many hatches you are registered for. 

See the list here.

You can see an overview of all the hatches you have completed, and who else has completed the various hatches HERE.

As there are so many different ways to complete the hatches, we have removed the time from the list, and you only see that you have completed. 

For each challenge you complete and register, you will receive a digital "badge" that you can share on your social media, to show that you are participating. 

Want a real medal?
If you want, you can treat yourself to a lovely glass medal as a prize for your efforts at this year's Christmas Challenge! And if you don't want to wear it around your neck, you can hang it on the Christmas tree, as ribbons are included for both parts! 

You order the medal when you register, or you can order it afterwards on "My page". We will send you the medal by post. It costs NOK 150 if you live in Norway, and NOK 200 if you live outside Norway. 

If you wish to receive the medal before Christmas, you must order it before 14th of December 2022. (We cannot guareantee it will be delivered in time if you live outside of Norway).  

You choose how many hatches you want to carry out, but for each hatch you participate in and register, you are included in the daily draw for a prize from one of our partners. The winners of the daily draws are contacted by email and published on Instagram . 

If you complete and register a minimum of 15 out of 24 hatches, you will be in the main draw after 24 December. There we have a COMPLETELY RAW prize pool with lots of nice prizes. See all the prizes we awarded in 2022 HERE ! 

The winners of the main draw will be drawn and announced on Boxing Day (December 27). The winners will be contacted by email and published on Instagram .