May, 2010

Game — 2 Comments
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May 10

New Trophies

trophy Some of you may have noticed a few new trophies showing up in trophy cases over the last week.  It’s no mirage, we really are adding new trophies to Earndit.  We added quite a few last week, will be adding a number more this week, and will forever be adding additional ones.

We won’t tell you exactly what all the available trophies are because we want it to be a nice surprise and discovery when you earn or find them.  If you are curious though, we encourage you to check out the trophy case on the profile pages of your friends and the folks on the leaderboards to start hunting for the ones available.

Exercise — 4 Comments
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May 10

Jesse Schwartzman teaches an advanced form of interval training

In a follow-up to Jesse’s previous lesson on interval training, here he takes the concept a step further.  Fartleck (“hee hee”) training is an advanced form of interval training that consists of cycles of slow, fast and very fast running paces.  Jesse suggests repeating the following 7-minute segment:

  • 4 minutes at a slow pace
  • 2 minutes at a fast pace
  • 1 minute at a very fast pace

The benefits to this form of exercise are that it develops both your aerobic and anaerobic systems.  Furthermore, it can be adapted by anyone at any endurance level.  Finally it helps break up the monotony of conventional jogging.

So once you stop laughing about the name of this exercise, get out there and put it into action!

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May 10

Brag about the rewards you earn

We’ve now made it possible for you to brag about the rewards you’ve earnd on Earndit.  As you can see from the screenshot below, it is easy to let your Twitter followers and Facebook friends know the free goodies you’re getting from all your hard work.

You can share this either right after you redeem your points for the reward OR from the page you get to when you click on your name in the top-right of any screen (then just hover your mouse over the reward you want to brag about).

I can tell you that we REALLY appreciate you telling everyone about Earndit!

Game — 2 Comments
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May 10

Rasmus Lerdorf is our April Winner!

Please join me in congratulating Rasmus Lerdorf for earning the most points in April!  Beating him would have been very difficult, for Rasmus hit the daily max of 60 points every single day of the month except for one (and on that one day that he didn’t post any points, I think he was traveling).  Our March winner (Laura Lee) came in just 74 points behind Rasmus, so she deserves some praise as well.

You can see Rasmus’s impressive activity level here.  For his accomplishment, Rasmus now has a new trophy to showoff in his trophy case, plus he has been granted 50 bonus points to use towards his rewards purchases.

Congratulations on all of your hard work.  I can’t wait to see who will challenge Rasmus in May.