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Welcome to the Al Qudra Time Challenge, the UAE's first ever digital cycling challenge.
Time challenges provide the opportunity to test yourself over a specified course at a convenient time during the selected event dates. By registering for the challenge you can use a connected device to record your time one of two courses at the Al Qudra purpose built cycling track with your best effort displayed on the leader board below. The challenge window will run from Monday 16th March until Sunday 22nd March, during this time you may attempt the challenge as many times as you like with only your best time counting towards the overall ranking.
To participate please register for the event and be sure to connect your Strava account at https://www.inphota.com/profile/social/ as profiles that do not have an active Strava account will not display on the leader board. For more information on Strava and to sign-up for free please visit https://www.strava.com/features.
Please note that this is a virtual challenge, upon signing up you will have until Sunday 22nd March to record your best time!
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Contest details
45km Cycling Challenge for men.
Complete one lap (clockwise) of the Jurassic Loop at Al Qudra Cycling Track to post a time to the live leader board.
Course starts from the main section of the track immediately after joining from the access road from the Stick. To view the segment including exact start and finish points please visit strava.com/segments/21846848
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Travel advice
Parking is available at Al Qudra Cycling Track.
Prizes & rewards
Please note that this is a free to enter challenge, entry enables you to challenge yourself over the specified course with your best result displayed on the live leader board.
You may also wish to look at some of our other time challenges that offer a premium participant upgrade. When entering an event and selecting the premium participant upgrade, where avaliable, you will receive a finishers medal upon completion of the challenge. Those who have selected the premium participant upgrade will be sent an email detailing how they can collect their medal.
Furthermore, every premium participant will have the opportunity to claim discounts by redeeming participation points by visiting inphota.com/rewards. Please note that reward points are not granted on free events.
More info
During this time, it's important that we are all respectful of guidance put in place to protect our safety, which is why the challenges have a one week completion window. Our aim for the time challenges is to provide a way of motivating you to stay healthy and active but want to stress that health is of upmost importance so we ask that you respect that these are set-up as individual challenges. Please do not organize group gatherings to attempt the challenge and importantly, if you feel unwell, stay at home.
Please make sure that you have connected your Strava account at https://www.inphota.com/profile/social/ as profiles that do not have an active Strava account will not display on the leader board. For more information on Strava and to sign-up for free please visit https://www.strava.com/features.
Terms & conditions
Important Note - By registering I accept the organizer's exclusion of liability of any damages. I will not enforce, a claim neither upon the organizer nor upon the supporting companies and their agents because of damage, that could arise by participating. I declare, that I have practiced sufficiently for the participation and that I am physically well. The event staff are authorized to take me from the contest when noticing immediate threats to my health. I agree that my given information may be used. I assure that my information is correct. Once registered, I cannot claim a refund of my registration fee. To insure your protection of privacy your data was saved electronically!
Delivery and Payment Confirmation - on completion of the registration you will receive an email confirmation confirming your entry into the requested competition. Should you not receive this within a reasonable time please email your query to events@gulfmultisport.com
Refund Policy - There is no refund. Queries can be directed by email to events@gulfmultisport.com
Submission of manual activities
The inphota platform allows submission of activities through many different means - Strava, Garmin, Fitbit - but we understand that sometimes it is preferable to submit the data in another way. To facilitate this we have produced a manual submission form which you can enter details of the activities for the contests that you have registered for.
To access the manual submission form you must be logged into the inphota account that registered for the contest, and have the details to hand. If you registered for the event using guest checkout then it is not possible to use the manual submission form.
Take advantage of quick registration
Quick registration will automatically add an item to your basket with the details that are listed against your inphota profile. This means that to make the most of quick registration you need to ensure that your profile is complete and up-to-date.
Don't worry, you can stil register without completing your profile, in the same way as you would family and friends.
We will be introducing inspire rewards points for a complete profile soon, watch this space!
This contest is restricted by age, or gender
Unfortunately this contest is restricted by age or gender, and the details in your profile do not fit within the restrictions laid out by the organiser. For this reason quick registration is not available.
However, you can still register for this contest through the usual means, and by filling out the details of the person that you want to register!
What is quick registration?
inphota members get access to our quick registration system, which allows you to join an event at the click of a button!
How do I use quick registration?
To use quick registration you just need to register for an inphota account, and complete your profile. It's quick and easy, and allows you to enter an event with just the click of a button!
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What are time challenges?
Time challenges provide a way to register for and complete a real-world course at a convenient time. By pairing your Strava account you can record your time over the selected course using a mobile phone or connected wearable device. Once the activity has been completed you will be added to the leaderboard and will have the opportunity to attempt the course as many times as you like during the event dates to improve your position.
What are challenges?
Similar to time challenges, inphota challenges allow for completion of an activity without the need for a real-world course, or a pre-arranged gathering. By pairing your Fitbit account you can record your activity when convenient, and it will be counted towards the challenge that you register for. You have the opportunity to attempt the challenge as many times as you like during the challenge period to improve your position.
Prizes and rewards will be fulfilled upon completion of the challenge.
When will I appear?
Our leaderboards for this challenge show the best efforts by people who have registered for this contest, and completed a qualifying activity using their wearable device. For time challenges this must be a device which uploads to Strava, otherwise a Fitbit device.
To be considered for the leaderboard you have to follow several steps:
- Sign up for the contest that you're interested in
- Connect your Fitbit or Strava account to your inphota account so that we know when you attempt the challenge
- Complete a qualifying activity (as many time as you like!)
- Upload your workout
That's it! Just use your Fitbit or Strava account as you normally would, and we will automatically download the activity and put you on the leaderboard. Please note that this process can take up to an hour after you complete the upload.
If you're having problems, or you've done an effort that isn't appearing after this time, then please get in touch with our in-site chat system.